Best Bereavement Poems
Below are the all-time best Bereavement poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of bereavement poems written by PoetrySoup members
She Wept In Languished Moan She wept as they buried her one true love.
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Categories:
bereavement,
Form:
Quintain (English)
Summer RainI wade into the surf and stand alone,
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Categories:
bereavement, goodbye, soulmate, storm,
Form:
Rhyme
It was Beautiful Yesterday
Bha e brèagha an-de
(It was Beautiful Yesterday)
There was a sailing vessel
With many a sail proudly lapping in the wind
A flag of the Celtic honor, in...
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Categories:
angel, angst, bereavement, feelings,
Form:
Verse
ADIEU UNTIL I SEE YOU IN HEAVEN - EMOTIVE WRITEI know your spirit is finally free
when I scattered your ashes yesterday
Cancer has taken you away from me
solitude is now the price...
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Categories:
bereavement, heartbroken, missing you,
Form:
Pantoum
Laid to RestTears no longer come,
dried ducts of wrung emotion,
denied one more drop of release.
... but only to feel
Feel your finite presence beside me,
inhaling your sweet...
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Categories:
bereavement, best friend, death,
Form:
Free verse
Winter's AntidoteWritten the week my niece's 29-year-old fiance died in
a terrible auto accident, 2 months shy of their wedding day.
O Winter, why this desolation? Trees,...
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Categories:
bereavement, community, death, grief,
Form:
Rhyme
Je suis CharlieTranslation below (in progress)
Celui qui n'a pas de cœur
Ne doit jamais reposer en paix
He who has no heart
Will never rest in peace
J’étais Charlie
De ma tombe
Mon...
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Categories:
allah, angel, angst, bereavement,
Form:
I do not know?
My Heart Beats For YouWalking aimlessly through the woods
Searching for that spot we once stood
Pouring out my heart and my tears
Reliving memories of those special years
Red and orange and...
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Categories:
bereavement, loss, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Never Out of Season - A Short Story I was wiping the dust off an old snow globe in the upstairs attic, when a mop of honey-blonde hair...
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Categories:
august, bereavement, blue, christmas,
Form:
Narrative
Caressed By Vines
Caressed By Vines
Like tender loving arms, they wrap around
old monuments of stone set on the ground;
those silent sentinels that stand their guard
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Categories:
bereavement, grave, tribute,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
Still A SoldierI lay here today a soldier
I know some don't understand
I will try to explain
So maybe you can
I served my country
For many a year
I retired long...
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Categories:
bereavement, soldier, veterans day,
Form:
Free verse
Soul mates solaceWhen my final shadows cling on desperately
Where I fight formidable battles
to merely hold the light
I send you loving vibrations
and soul sustenance
Deep from the cathedral
of one...
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Categories:
art, bereavement, body, care,
Form:
Free verse
That Was a HumanAllow me to be disgusted at the jest
and your halfway happy surprise at the end result
of the missile timed precisely:
Did he just splatter?
And allow me...
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Categories:
abuse, angst, bereavement, corruption,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Last CallHe left his sneakers by the shore
A backpack too, was laid aside
to pick up when the sun had died
He claimed his other gear, instead
The thrill...
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Categories:
bereavement, death, death of
Form:
Free verse
Do you remember meThey walk silently along my hallways.
Floors littered with faded finery.
Do you remember my Granduer?
I had once been called the Queen of the sea.
Pulled down to...
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Categories:
beauty, bereavement, eulogy, fish,
Form:
I do not know?
The Crosses of NightRising before me, scattered graves like the stars
are embracing the light, while they shatter the heart
Such fields, vast and somber, keeping silent the valiant
who...
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Categories:
bereavement, death, sad, soldier,
Form:
Free verse
A Child's PrayerClutched tight to my chest, the doll smiles lifelessly
sending vacant stares down the darkened hall.
A solitary line of pink light sneaks through a crack in...
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Categories:
bereavement, child, heartbreak, loss,
Form:
Free verse
Parasite
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The widow, dressed in glossy black,
glides from the shadows at the back.
A veil lies slack across her face
to mask the grief her features lack.
Possessed of...
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Categories:
assonance, bereavement, dark, death,
Form:
Rhyme
A Game Of Thorns - Collaboration with Maurice Yvonne
i heard a...what do they say...a spine chilling scream
...is that the saying?
a spine chilling scream
followed by
'he's dead, my G_d he's dead'
the phrase echoed
inside the...
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Categories:
addiction, bereavement, body, boyfriend,
Form:
Narrative
My Sister SaysMy sister says
my father was a good man --
but, how...
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Categories:
absence, addiction, anger, bereavement,
Form:
Free verse
Memories and Mourning
Trickle tender tears - those that take their time
born to bathe and baptize bereavement;
dew drops cling to fragile petals of forlorn feelings ~
aged and alone
sentiments...
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Categories:
bereavement, emotions, grief, loss,
Form:
Alliteration
A Dylan Thomas State of MindA Dylan Thomas State of Mind
It’s precisely 2:45am...the time when
~ if I’ve fallen asleep ~
I always awake to find
Myself drenched in sweat.
I lie here beside...
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Categories:
bereavement, anger, angst, anniversary, anxiety,
Form:
Bio
Dark And Tragic, When Fate Sets Its Black Hand To DecideDark And Tragic, When Fate Sets Its Black Hand To Decide
Icy cold had invaded, her heart became a hard frozen tomb
Never again would she allow...
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Categories:
bereavement, betrayal, dark, death,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Too Brief, The Flame
There lies my heart,
Quite ragged, torn -
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Categories:
appreciation, bereavement, death, eulogy,
Form:
Quatrain
Tribute to Winged WarriorTribute to Winged Warrior
Oh what majestic beauty,
has been trampled,
trampled to death by a vicious enemy
Oh what misery is ours,
we who are left behind
in ...
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Categories:
bereavement, death of a
Form:
Free verse