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Best Mournings Poems

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Premium Member Gray Mournings
Lace hankie tucked inside her jacket sleeve
Hard candy filled the tin beside Mom’s purse
Gray mournings, nature’s gifts for those who grieve
At times when it seems...

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Categories: mournings, grief,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member 8 Little Egypts
Something strange

and unexplainable comes this way,
this way, it comes to us sly and fast, 
some say, perhaps, 
it has already arrived, 
it walks unseen, in...

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Categories: mournings, easter, humanity, words,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Ravenous Eldritch Wrath a Collab With James Fraser
RAVENOUS ELDRITCH WRATH

The darkening skies in choir of wrath;
The wind brisk banging blows;
The withering of trees;
The falling twirling leaves;
The branches sudden irate tweak and split.

Giving...

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Categories: mournings, holiday, horror, imagery,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Ravenous Eldritch Wrath a Collab With Olive Eloisa Guillermo
RAVENOUS ELDRITCH WRATH

The darkening skies in choir of wrath;
The wind brisk banging blows;
The withering of trees;
The falling twirling leaves;
The branches sudden irate tweak and split.

Giving...

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Categories: mournings, angst, dance, dark, death,
Form: Verse
Beatitudes
i have taken
your spirit soaked in poverty
blessed are knocking on the doors
you rain on me
i have borrowed
your mournings and its comforts
we lie on the sand...

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Categories: mournings, allegory, , cute,
Form: I do not know?



10 Years
10 years

Had happy Mornings...but once in awhile...so do mournings...
Making the most...still sometimes...at a lost...
One moment overjoyed...the next...feeling the void...
Wiping out fears...yet often, can't control the...

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Categories: mournings, absence, anniversary, father,
Form: Ballad
Love, Feelings,Emotions and Marriage
Love is beautiful, it brings perfection
Perfection sprouting from two human beings
Two human beings who then transcend mutually
Transcend mutually until they become unique

Feelings can be deadly...

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© Desiree M  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mournings, life
Form: Rhyme
A Solace In Solitude - Loneliness Contest
Like the moving clouds my life runs,
Not knowing when to stop, saturate and shower,
Carrying the vapours of worry my heart weighs heavy,
Crossing the peak I...

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Categories: mournings, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Free Us
Free as the independent  woman that raised us 
Don’t believe in every story 
Allegories & fables
Fast for mournings ,Now I’m unplugged from the matrix...

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Categories: mournings, adventure, anxiety, arabic, black
Form: Free verse
Fresh Cut Grass
My favorite thing about the month of June 
The smell of cuttings across the lawn
The air so crisp and beautifully warm by noon
The smell of...

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Categories: mournings, children, friendship, happiness, life,
Form: Light Verse
Love Me Now Save My Heart
Sunrise eats the nights heartache

Mournings are the music of my soul

Failing big by what was a stake

Dying every day by loves toll

I'm just dwelling on...

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Categories: mournings, love,
Form: Rhyme
Hopscotch In Harlem 1948
EXCERPT (Approximately 30% of Poem)
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Categories: mournings, black african american, familywork,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Perpetual Rain
Darkness, the day she went away,
perpetual rain claimed his heart.
“Hope” her prognosis didn’t sway;
misty mournings, being apart.

His reason for being she was.
Darkness, the day she...

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Categories: mournings, lost love, sad, day,
Form: Quatern
Why Do Christmas
Why Christmas Day when He seems so far away?
Why fain rejoicing when really there is nothing to say?

Why do Christmas with all it's tradition and...

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Categories: mournings, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
What Do We Do With Our Freedom
Clods of blood,
Backs of sweats,
Echoes of mournings,
Fountains of tears,
Alters of sacrifices
traded for the freedom
we inherit today.

There were days when
our forth parents have to
struggle across the...

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Categories: mournings, black african american,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs