Best Bereaved Poems

The ice-cold sun was hid
Behind a bank of clouds that came unbid,
Ugly freezing winds blew
Birds felt it all and flew
No place to rest, they knew.
The black cypress did their shelter forbid. 

Beneath, lanes clearly showed
All tombs and snow covered the dead's abode.
Alas, their days were...

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It is a fallacy to imagine
I could know your pain
The depth of loss for one we love
And who's loved us
Could never be transposed.

But I do understand...

Your loss is very great
And very distressing
I offer all the sympathy..
Empathy...support...
I can summon.

I'm hear to give... 

Comfort and companionship
Through these...

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midnight explodes, cheers, sings
life for the new year begins
a mother still wears black...

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Each year on December the first,
I remember for twelve years ago,
my mother, my wonderful mother
gave our family a terrible blow.
She passed away quietly at home,
and I made this solemn decree,
Each year on December the first,
I’d take flowers to the cemetery.

This year while at her graveside,
in...

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I beg your forgiveness for I am not long for this world. Happenstance has led me down this path so crooked and forlorn. Misery has preceded my path and darkened my senses all but torn. Mistakes have illuminated my way though their light be a...

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When I found you in bed, you had just died.
     I wept; my grieving went mostly unsaid;
you clearly were gone—I was horrified!
     As you lay still in bed, utterly dead, 
the huge shock I felt could not...

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“Though grief burdens one, it may lessen in time. But like an ember it keeps smoldering and from time to time, may grow into flames, burning inside”
                  ...

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Theres a gaping hole 
A part of me is  missing 
Blood is gushing out of my chest
For all these years I've known you
I took you for granted
Never showing you how much you
Truly meant to me but now its too late

Then I began to recap
All...

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I wonder why bereaved people even bother with mourning clothes when the grief itself provides such an unmistakable wardrobe. Jandy Nelson

What I scribe assists and soothes the pain.
Conceal my thoughts and jam in my silence.
A sense of agony overwhelms you to complain. 
Hardships from upshots or...

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Bereft of life her eyes
Barren they stare as folks
Bring casseroles, breads, pies
Bouquets of fresh flowers
Business of world still thrives
Bright summer day so warm
Baby of hers lies cold

Written on 08/16/2016
Contest-Pleaides B by Kim Merryman...

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Now,
he 
from pain
is set free-
pain for her,went on....

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when i was in England

i received a parcel

in the parcel was a letter

it reads thus 'the bereaved mother'

i torn my self apart and came down to my fatherland

 

i can look the sun in the face

and tell what they have done to my beloved mother

mother...

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I may love you, once love is all I have;
someday, with tears I'll wash away your grave:
till then I curse you since you died at last,
leaving me broke, alone, going nowhere fast. 

Despite young Cupid, I won't bring you flowers;
or bathe you in dripping-wet, sparkling...

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“When I Get To Heaven” 
As I walked to her bedroom door, I paused to wipe a tear.
I had to stay strong, God would take her soon, this 
child that I loved so.
 Dawn was breaking as I stood at her door, frozen in 
time....

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Amidst deep silence, dark as night,
Souls escaped from pestilence's blight,
Death shan't find their hidden track,
In this realm of peace, they're back.

Amor, once loved, is now fast asleep,
Years passed, and her memory I keep,
A beauty, once famed, now covered in dust,
Yet vivid in my heart, her...

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