Best Threnody Poems
Below are the all-time best Threnody poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of threnody poems written by PoetrySoup members
Threnody For My FatherI laid my aching heart upon your grave
that February day when trees were bare
of life; their withered leaves fell down to brave
the chill of winter...
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Categories:
threnody, death, emotions, father,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
May Midnight Dark Devour This Cursed ThrenodyMay Midnight Dark Devour This Cursed Threnody
May midnight dark devour this cursed threnody
Sweet dreams, felled on "cusp of victory"
Youthful wonderment through the heavens flew
Alas! Destined...
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Categories:
threnody, appreciation, art, heart, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
Threnody of a Bereft FriendHere cries a young woman who recently lost her friend.
She was angry with her friend; she scolded her rage, her rage did end.
A voice from...
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Categories:
threnody, death of a friend,
Form:
Elegy
Memo For Destroyer Poet a Linda: 3 20 P M, 23rd April 2013 Paris, FranceMEMO for Destroyer Poet A Linda: 3. 20 p.m., 23rd April 2013 – Paris, France
If you are Red I am Brown
If...
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Categories:
threnody, dedication,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Adventures In Neverland
The reasoning has befallen, on a rock she now prays
Dark cobalt blue tides, like counters, our end of days
Wildlife in sporadic, escaping to not
Whilst a...
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Categories:
threnody, fantasy, music,
Form:
Rhyme
The Reapers SongThe midnight moon was full of woe
As ravens soared within its glow
Echoes of the reaper's song
Drift on dark clouds all night long
...
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Categories:
threnody, moon, raven,
Form:
Quatrain
A Love Nostalgia Epilogue
Written: May 2nd, 2024
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Quixotic quest quiddity
As dusk sapidity...
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Categories:
threnody, inspirational, love, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
Grim Thrum Epiphany
Written: January 09, 2024
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Seen through a sepia scale
Drab...
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Categories:
threnody, adventure, analogy, bereavement, character,
Form:
Free verse
A Meadow For Autumnwhen eve doth fall upon summers’ end,
a hint of splendor bequeathed arose
upon firmament as changed scenery
(this third...
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Categories:
threnody, age, allegory, autumn, change,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
Categories:
threnody, anxiety, cry, dark, today,
Form:
Blank verse
Villanelle: Live With the Borrowed Lives Made By Your Own MistakesVillanelle: Live with the borrowed lives made by your own mistakes
Live with the borrowed lives made by your own mistakes
A stranger to your stricken selves...
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Categories:
threnody, courage,
Form:
Villanelle
Adventures In Neverland
The reasoning has befallen, on a rock she now prays
Dark cobalt blue tides, like counters, our end of days
Wildlife in sporadic, escaping to not
Whilst a...
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Categories:
threnody, angst, fantasy, lost, people,
Form:
Rhyme
Zorba the GreekZorba was a friend of mine
momentum of lunacy shine
insane shrieking lunacy
to venture to an exotic island.
Let's be free; snip the strap.
sardonic heart phratry man
Shamans are...
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Categories:
threnody, analogy, joy, longing, love,
Form:
Metrical Tale
Of Nature, Desert, Sand and Western SkiesOf Nature, Desert, Sand And Western Skies
Oh, silence -arid air where thorny cactus grows
Where desolation runs ever so wild
Towering nearby whitecapped mountains of snow
...
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Categories:
threnody, art, beauty, imagery, innocence,
Form:
Imagism
Death of the KingDeath of the King
– a threnody
Since the day of freedom,
the crowned king has sat
stately on state affairs:
atop this tempest
this illwind,
this boiling cauldron of corruption.
Blowing and...
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Categories:
threnody, sorrow, green, , memorial,
Form:
Blank verse