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Bereft Poems - Poems about Bereft

Bereft Sherriff with Big Tarriff Horn Haiku
here came the sheriff with would bring a big tariff having been bereft ...

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Categories: bereft, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Beyond Bereft
If you go to my neighborhood thrift shop, You just might come across Five ice cream sundae dishes And two mugs; if not, your loss. See, I’m very slowly sweeping Things that I don’t use away, Though I often must remind myself Why items needn’t stay. In L.A.’s recent fires, People found out in a flash That they had to leave; their homes And all their...

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Categories: bereft, loss,
Form: Rhyme



Bereft And Begone
Like squeezing and gripping a handful of sand Your love dropped through the crevices unrhymed Defining our feelings with each orphaned word Lost in the random —abandon of time (Dreamsleep: December, 2024) ...

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Categories: bereft, love, words,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Of Those Bereft of Lullabies
God hears the broken ...

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Categories: bereft, abuse, child, children, prayer,
Form: Rhyme
Never to be Forgotten
To some, it’s a lifetime ago, To some, it still feels like yesterday, To some, it was before their time, But it will be remembered come what may. Regardless of the time that passes, The memory of that day remains, The heinous act, the devastation, The tragedy, the pain. On this day, twenty three years ago, Innocent lives were cruelly lost, Hearts broken,...

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Categories: bereft, anniversary, bereavement, conflict, grief,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Bereft
Subdued and alone nose to the lightness of air becoming a part of the source of this tranquil splendor inhaling the breezes of long rolling tides nibbling at a golden shore I have sheltered my sorrow in the layers of myself leaving my earthly connection escaping in stoic stares at an empty distance that loses its definition transformed into a beautiful nothingness The weight...

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Categories: bereft, death, faith, grief, loss,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Final Words of a Bereft Poet
If I could no longer write poetry, I'd have no need of hands, nor eyes weary from weeping, a heart that lies broken, and a soul dead from mourning. ~ by poet I heard the faint echoes of scurrilous snarls, from my guilty conscience as it spoke. Contemptible remarks rightly aimed...

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Categories: bereft, bereavement, poetry,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Bereft
In a roaring ocean of grief, she plunged in. A widow, she's a hodgepodge of emotions; Caged all alone in melancholy's dungeon. Day in, day out she's going through the motions. Bereft, her...

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Categories: bereft, dark, death, grief, loneliness,
Form: Rispetto
Premium Member Sigh Bereft of Tune
Written: January 20, 2024 ___________________________________ Weary of heartfelt kindness, on rugged slopes, Charming and brilliant, will fall back into darkness. Yet they suit rose and oak, I survive, Mates and minds meet on Earth, Mingle with subdued dust, Few opinions or facts, Slurries, or rules, are vestiges, yet...

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Categories: bereft, angst, death, earth, fear,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Making Sense of It All
Please help me in my confusion Come to my rescue Do not leave me sitting all alone On this lonely beach of abandonment Help me my brothers Help me my compatriots Help me you all men of good will To make a modicum of sense From all disconcerting confusion around me My country has become an enigma Difficult to fathom and...

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Categories: bereft, absence, allusion, anger, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bereft
Like the wind on my cheek, Life passes me by, Unlike my pain, That wants me to die. Grey skies turn blue, The winds pick up, It's life again, Waiting to be nuged. My candle flickers, In the dark I sit still, I see the soft light, On my windowsill. The morning is near, There's winds blowing in, I think I'll let them, Caress my cheek again....

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Categories: bereft, blue, dark, emotions, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Ode To Sleep
AN ODE TO SLEEP. Bereft asleep,baby born lights dim The skies in space;twinkling bright a beam Firmaments afar settling wide a gleam Take care to sleep heav'nly realms as mile Take guard thee guardians. Till the dawn arise For I'll wake and shine in morn inclined....

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Categories: bereft, child, sleep,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Love Bereft
Love bereft, cold heart and clenched fist Yes, they walk among us Oblivious to the bliss mist Their ghoulish ways nonplus Give them love and move on They’ll again be reborn Hopefully, ego shorn Nothing left Love bereft 04-May-2022 Quietus ...

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Categories: bereft, anger, evil, heart,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Beyond Bereft
The moon, huge ball above that shines a golden hue, seems a sign auspicious - but oh, that is not true! Trenchant words you spilled; my heart is cleft. I’ve wept (beyond bereft) now you’ve left. Dear, can’t you recall how we’d thought our love would grow? Your touch would enthrall me through long days; moon’s warm glow - Where did summer’s solstice go? How...

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Categories: bereft, heartbreak,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bereft and Bereaved
In loving memory the saga goes, or so they say when feint reminder culls a piercing interlude. Remnant of an unfinished sentence, broken shadow haunt awash with grief, snapshot at the edge of a well. Parachute of blinding insight on queue or on song, paper mache angel deep within. Verses, scrolls, smudges from that pink enamel claw, whose back fold clip appearance left...

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Categories: bereft, art, august, bereavement, betrayal,
Form: Free verse

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