Best Grieving Poems

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My thoughts let go of a thousand memories,
     Like faces, dates, times and places;
Yet, I can easily recall each and every detail,
               On the day of your...

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Grieving thoughts, the places they go
What if the body, really does have a soul?
What if there is no heaven or no hell?
Why were we here for such a short spell?
Why isn't life fair? Why do we have emotions?
Why do some people care, while some have...

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One step I go back, and
I see you holding my hands...
With a smile, walking down the lanes.
Yesterday I acquainted me in you
When your hands grabbed mine in your fears
With such reliance, allaying down the pains.
And Today when I stood still
I saw myself lost in despair
When...

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It was there on the ground, the ragged lone leaf
It made my heart sad, to see it fall down
Verdant green in the spring, it was meant to be born
yet, before it was weary, it had to turn brown

They have covered the ground, and the grass,...

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Grieving; I weep silently
As daylilies die daily
A slow death but violently
Their leaves a yellow shaley

Feelings that are despairing
Heart pain, actual sorrow
Tears because you're uncaring
Grieving cause you killed yarrow     

Actual form: Ae Freislighe (aye freshly) and Irish form...

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They fled their land to find safety
instead, they found
cruel life wherever they lived
They've lost everything
because they're that way
Their aspirations crumbled
and they lost all their aspirations.

Something I strive
to be among the shattered
in honor of the broken
Thinking about all tears that would be shed
their world caves over...

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Her husband ran across a road;
The bus was speeding, so I’m told,
And squashed him flat.

She wished she had the heart to cry,
His ashes in her mouth and eye;
She only spat.

For Susan’s The Blues tail rhyme contest...

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Praying

Pleading

Mourning

Grieving

With all of the praying, pleading done,
John died; I was mourning. Grieving won!


*I know his spirit will be reunited with mine.  Faith keeps us going
Entry for Dr. Ram’s Tyburn contest...

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One lives on the memory
Never letting it go
Always holding as a memorial
The recollection within
Where only the heart knows
To celebrate a life

One longs to just forget
And let go of the pain
That reminds of a past
Filled with joy 
They thought would last
Joy that is no more

Neither of...

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Melancholy me, since Kelly's gone away
Far beyond the sea, and gone from everyday
Stage by stage I've wept, but finally, I see
What I must now accept; a melancholy me

It follows and it looms, a threat to my clear sky
Though never quite consumes, insists that I comply...

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Fish are named
Lazarus and Carl Jung 
they swim in the library, art studio,
that spare room 
where I write, paint.
Their eyes are the size 
of their stomachs.
They mouth dreams
in silence behind glass.

I stare back, envious
of graceful slow motion angel gills
immersed in a tank of tears
gathered from...

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Goodbye, Odie

My little old cat is dying.
His steps are awkward, eyes unfocussed
and he cries when he can’t see me.
I’m not sure I want to be in a world
that doesn’t have my tabby Familiar.
I am feeling widowed, again.

I’m resigned to be grieving, again
outliving another love who...

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I was not ready to lose you.
But you were taken from me, anyway.

Suddenly.

On a sunny day that started so normally.
Without any sign of the emotional pain to come.

Abruptly.

Life’s like that, I guess.
It shouldn’t be that way.  It just is.

Unfair.

Losing a loved one is always...

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Arising in softest sapphire,
Shimmery as the night,
Inviting silence to release her,
Tears flowing, thick and sincere,
Breaking through melancholy,
Trembling with dark dread,
Erasing all the soul’s vivacity –
Erasing the existence of her memories.

Appearing in somber ashen,
Overcast by doubts – catastrophe,
Shrinking beneath seas of dejection,
Unwarranted shadows, 
Casting careless heartaches,
Destined...

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A Devotion Poem, FATE
(Written for my husband, Jim)

My beloved and I, with our hearts not only 
aligned in love, but also in the empathy and 
compassion grown in the fruits of our years 
together, in needy as well as hopeful times, 
hold in sight each...

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