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Best Bereaved Poems

Below are the all-time best Bereaved poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of bereaved poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Debacle
* Bringing this gem back in the hope Becca Teagan sees it and returns. We wrote this together, a labor of love. The poem ends...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bereaved, confusion, evil, history,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Loss of the Lifeboat, the 'Solomon Browne'
In the year ninteen eighty one on the nineteenth day of December
A day the town of Mousehole in Cornwall, will always remember
An R.N.L.I. Watson class...

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Categories: bereaved, boat, death, people, rain,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Lions Led By a Donkey
I could see the virus approaching so why couldn't he?
But he had to keep investors happy and save the economy
On his watch people in their...

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Categories: bereaved, death, england, political,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member - the Air Vibrated -
Most people were born with love and concern 
              ~ the real...

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Categories: bereaved, crazy, evil,
Form: Free verse
Another Book of Genesis
Sighed Adam to Eve:
“Because you were deceived,
Like a fool, I believed.
Sadly, all our conceived
Will be sorely bereaved.”

Well, that should be it, right?
No, boys and girls,...

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Categories: bereaved, funny
Form: McWhirtle



Your Love Wouldn'T Cease To Rain
Mother
The best of all my words 
I love calling you

Past were those so many years 
when the petals of my heart would  blossom
as your...

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Categories: bereaved, beauty, blessing, celebration, memory,
Form: Free verse
Himalayan Trip-Trap-2
Himalayan  Trip-Trap

They poured in,  before the deluge
To surpass the natives in numbers
folks in their  cribs -through-hearse  stages, 
trusting like kids, ...

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Categories: bereaved, natural disasters, nature,
Form: Free verse
No Longer Mourn For Me When I Am Dead
If Death should call, let me go free;
it is only Heaven beckons me.
If I should step beyond the veil
of sight and sound and voice, all...

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Categories: bereaved, death, faith, religious,
Form: Lyric
What's In the Urn
What’s In The Urn

Strangers offered me to join them in a drink
I met them on a mountain edge while skiing
They seemed like friendly normal people...

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Categories: bereaved, adventure, animal, anxiety, conflict,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member When I Get To Heaven
“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...

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© Tj Silba  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bereaved, angel, bereavement, bible, christian,
Form: Free verse
The Heart From Which Flows the Waterfall
There is a little sprinkling of love down deep,
  a wee twinkling (light) ---
  without which we couldn't exist;
  like light upon...

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Categories: bereaved, earth, heart, hope, life,
Form: Classicism
Reborn On Calvary
In the darkness of day,
we, the tear baptismal ones 
were reborn

In the shadow of Calvary,
we, the gospel seed
was crucifixion conceived — 
A bereaved delivery

On that...

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Categories: bereaved, birth, religious, symbolism, visionary,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Faceless Fear
Faceless Fear


Inside of me there haunts to be, a pain that never seems to go away,
Within a darkened room, of a dismal day...
Hell compounds and...

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Categories: bereaved, death, fear, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Internet Trolls
We all surf the internet to do shopping online
Chat with our friends and to have a good time
But there's  bullies' who surf it causing...

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Categories: bereaved, abuse, bereavement, bullying, internet,
Form: Rhyme
The Gate of Death
THE GATE OF DEATH
 
I will shut my gate; and no man can open it.
And if I open it; all men shall come in once...

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Categories: bereaved, abuse,
Form: Light Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs