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Elegiac Lyric Poems | Elegiac Lyric Examples

Blackland Prairie
BLACKLAND PRAIRIE From Red River down to San Antone, The Blackland Prairie’s all but gone— Scoured clean by progress, tilled and torn, By “civilized” greed, excess born, A plundered land that mourns the dawn. Where bison and pronghorn used to roam In numbers lost in time and stone Now parking lots...

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Categories: earth, nature,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
I Am From pt2
I am from sitting in the front row church pew I never wanted to be in twice. The genuine smiles in the photos on the memory board were oh-so-different from The ones we plastered on at the American Legion and the Irish pub There we gulped bottomless Shirley Temples and spent twenty dollars on darts. All to distract ourselves...

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Categories: death, funeral, grandmother, grandparents,
Form: Elegiac Lyric



I Am From pt1
I was born and raised in my house, which isn’t home. At heart, I am from the orange brick house in Westridge Farms Where I never even lived There, the pawprints I stamped on the driveway may have long since washed away But I still left my mark Even if it was just in the eyes of the horses that...

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Categories: childhood, death, eulogy, feelings,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Echoes of Decrepit Days
As yellow leaves wither in the autumn breeze, only apathetic thoughts remain in this nonchalant existence of my diseased body and over the hill mind! It reminds me a time of agility, A time of struggle and celebrations, An age when dreams of a better future bloomed, And leaping up those stairs to pluck the petals...

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Categories: age, depression, emotions, fate,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Premium Member Of Paper Moons, Foxes, and Blood Oranges
I. Sighting I saw you through refracted light- a prism of chance splitting ordinary into spectrum. Wind-tangled hair terra cotta and rosemary beneath your nails the scent of soil and citrus on your skin. You carried mysteries-living things I wanted to cradle. I didn’t find you- you found...

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Categories: dream, innocence, journey, loss,
Form: Elegiac Lyric



When Death Comes Unexpectedly
You had two months to live No one told you, no one warned you No one knew I can’t look you in the eyes I tried, a thousand times But what once felt safe seemed savage What once was certain proved damaged The wreckage was drastic Do I blame myself? Or do I blame you? You had two days to live No one told you, no...

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Categories: death, grief, i miss
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Premium Member Embryo
Elegiac Lyric... Jesus has Risen! "It is time to stop knocking on the doors to a tomb" ...

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Categories: grief,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Key
You found the door - The door which protected my worst nightmares I didn't know existed, and sheltered the basic needs my heart shunned but never new it pined for Tell me you didn't You found the key that unlocked the spring to my eternal winter, the warmth to an endless frigid existence, the glow within my ceaseless, hopeless night - the feast no...

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Categories: depression, emotions, heartbreak, heartbroken,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
HARMONY AND BELONGING
At dusk, at the beginning of the night, the majestic divine transition; the sun undoes its yellow splendor The moon presents its silvery glow... ...

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Categories: allusion, beauty, celebration, imagery,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Premium Member Esme Teresa and Elle Norma: A Lament of Light
At twenty weeks they saw the light— two daughters Esme Teresa and Elle Norma wombed in delight— before the room ...

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Categories: child, daughter, granddaughter, hope,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
What It’s Like Without You
Knots in my stomach never untied I feel them tighten more and more each time tightness in my chest inside and out tears as they are swell up in my eyes waiting to be released Trapped in a loop of trying to move on and trying to look back on the past wondering how you would guide me through it The...

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Categories: 9th grade, dad, death,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Premium Member Mama Dearest
The flutes afloat, am I dreaming, it seems not right. Bluebirds - I cannot see their melody in flight. From the grand-girls, I love the sunflowers - a ray. The flowers crisp; I let them die; no other way. Scent of roses, a-breeze;...

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Categories: grief,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Premium Member City Frozen Cold
Verse 1 His coat is torn his shoes are thin The cold cuts deep beneath his skin Little boy coughs small hands that shake Winter's breath is much to hard To hard to take. Verse 2 Sidewalk echoes silent prayers People pass but no one cares Cardboard kingdom borrowed time Every step is a mount- Mountain climbed. Chorus And the city turns away Like they...

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Categories: city, father son, home,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Silence and Fate
Categories: death, death of a
Form: Elegiac Lyric
A Flowerless Corpse
Snowing-- a hiemal, deathly air Their frigid, frostbitten fingers hold nothing Uncomfortable silence washes over all there A petalless, thorny rose someone is clutching Her corpse, defunct, stiff yet motionless Skin, once warm brown, now ghastly Her grinning face, now emotionless They thought she would die lastly Life has limits, death...

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Categories: angst, appreciation, betrayal, dark,
Form: Elegiac Lyric

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