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Best Grief Stricken Poems

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Premium Member Forget Our Hearts Visions
Now that only forgotten promises remain,
sounds of solitude are gifts I wish to obtain.
Sentiments are temporary in a world full of change,
affections are wasted in...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: grief stricken, emotions, heartbroken, lost love,
Form: Lyric



Screaming At the Sky
Screaming at the Sky
 
Mothers screaming mournfully at a deaf sky
holding their heads helplessly as they cry
pitiful tears for innocent, defenseless children slaughtered
in fatal cross...

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Categories: grief stricken, children, drug, grief, hurt,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Wounded Souls of An Artistic Kind
Her brush strokes sorrow upon her canvas,
as oils drip with sadness. 
He captures images of silent spirits, 
drifting in blackness.

In her black and white world,...

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Categories: grief stricken, angst, art, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Psychedelic Whistle Plays a Rhythm Into the Darkness
A Psychedelic Whistle Plays a Rhythm into the Darkness

Entering the dark side of a moonbeam on this evil lens of life,
A gruesome old man recreates...

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Categories: grief stricken, dark, evil, fantasy, horror,
Form: Narrative
The Worm Poem
A Certain Kind Of Death 

She was in love 
Their expression of it 
Was the perfection of it 
The way they shared 
What they had...

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Categories: grief stricken, baby, death, mother,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member - a Psychedelic Whistle Plays a Rhythm Into the Darkness -
Entering the dark side of a moonbeam on this evil lens of life,
A gruesome old man recreates a murder time and time again, 
As the...

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Categories: grief stricken, dark, evil, fantasy, horror,
Form: Narrative
The Worm Poem
A Certain Kind Of Death 

She was in love 
Their expression of it 
Was the perfection of it 
The way they shared  
Was beyond...

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© Nate D.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: grief stricken, upliftingbaby, care, family, husband,
Form: Epic
A Tale of Tears
Tired of talking too much
I wish to rest my rhymes.
Now is time to give ears
To your titanic tale of tears.
The heart that was under constraint
Needs...

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Categories: grief stricken, desire, destiny, life, love,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member - Entering the Dark Side of a Moonbeam -
Entering the dark side of a moonbeam is always very risky
since the cold and howling bitterness of the night escapes,
as a moaning, devilish agony of...

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Categories: grief stricken, dark, death, emotions, evil,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Never a Day Goes By
Never a day goes by when she walks the shore alone
Grief stricken she has become now his spirits having flown
Seafaring was in his blood, ancestral...

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Categories: grief stricken, life, loss, lost love,
Form: Quatrain
Hoarding Hope - I Am Not Alone
This horrid. inner remorse
Is getting way out of course
I want to keep courage and cheer in my heart…
I am His sun-shining, mild child, even from...

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Categories: grief stricken, appreciation, beautiful, courage, deep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Gilgamesh
GILGAMESH . . .  

Story has it you used your power to run amuck
Putting fear into the people, and brides in Unuk

So the people...

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Categories: grief stricken, adventure, best friend, brother,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Sad Christmas Without You
There’s an empty space at the table
I have a ready meal for one
It’s the first year without you
I can’t prepare a meal
Now I’m on my...

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Categories: grief stricken, christmas, grief, missing you,
Form: Nonet
I Lay Bare My Wounded Heart
There are painful pitfalls to happiness
No one, not I, is immune to misery's tragic tune.
We cry in the night like a wolf baying at the...

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Categories: grief stricken, emotions, endurance, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Entering the Dark Side of a Moonbeam
Entering the Dark Side of a Moonbeam
 
Entering the dark side of a moonbeam is always very risky
since the cold and howling bitterness of the...

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Categories: grief stricken, allegory, deep, destiny, emotions,
Form: Terza Rima

Book: Shattered Sighs