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Best Threnody Poems

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Premium Member Threnody For My Father
I 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



Premium Member May Midnight Dark Devour This Cursed Threnody
May 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 Friend
Here 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
Premium Member Memo For Destroyer Poet a Linda: 3 20 P M, 23rd April 2013 Paris, France
MEMO 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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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: threnody, dedication,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member 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



Premium Member The Reapers Song
The 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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© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: threnody, moon, raven,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member A Love Nostalgia Epilogue
Written: May 2nd, 2024

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Quixotic quest quiddity
As dusk sapidity...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: threnody, inspirational, love, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Grim Thrum Epiphany
Written: January 09, 2024
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Seen through a sepia scale
Drab...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: threnody, adventure, analogy, bereavement, character,
Form: Free verse
A Meadow For Autumn
when 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
When Your Heart Bleed Emotions
I get quieten..
                When my soul fall into a moment...

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© El Sid  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: threnody, anxiety, cry, dark, today,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Villanelle: Live With the Borrowed Lives Made By Your Own Mistakes
Villanelle: 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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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: threnody, courage,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member 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
Premium Member Zorba the Greek
Zorba 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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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: threnody, analogy, joy, longing, love,
Form: Metrical Tale
Premium Member Of Nature, Desert, Sand and Western Skies
Of 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 King
Death 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

Book: Reflection on the Important Things