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An elegiac lyric poem is a form of poetry that expresses a speaker's feelings of loss, often because of the death of a loved one, but there is more to an elegiac lyric. What is elegiac lyric in poetry (complete definition)?
EmptinessDo you ever cry for no reason
Try to skip a special day
Forget about the seasons
Get angry, you just may
Do you cherish & love them
Do you hold them dear
So many messages sent
Just wishing they were near
Don't...
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Categories:
abuse, anger, children, heartbreak,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Void in Perspective
“She spoke to me; expressing desire to rid of her being soon. In her possession lay a bottle of ibuprofen and a dozen sharp razors too. That three slits down her butchered arms is all...
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Categories:
absence, abuse, death of
Form: Elegiac Lyric
When No Means Nothing…
Throughout my life, the same phrase has been repeated to me- “no means no.”
The concept of refusing an action you’re uncomfortable abetted me towards hope; growing up, distraught was brought upon me due to my...
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Categories:
abuse, child abuse, depression,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Ascent and DescentWe have a tendency to focus on our flaws, despite it being what makes us human; what we despise is what one desires, and what we desire is what someone despises.
I felt this way for...
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Categories:
angst, art, body, depression,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
GenerationsI often ponder about the perpetuous anathema in my household, because growing up, that abominable behavior was quite normalized.
I’ve always heard derogatory, disrespectful remarks or comments, God, they’re so standardized; my conception was that being...
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Categories:
abuse, angst, child abuse,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Twenty MinutesTwenty minutes
For my everything to refine
Because my existence intensifies to intolerable
And it would be easier to die
Fifteen minutes
I devised a plan, I’m ready to proceed
I’m aware that if I carry on this deed
Then I’ll never...
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Categories:
abuse, addiction, anger, anxiety,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Animating Inner VibranceBetwixt the pulse of our heartbeat
Simply present, head-heart linking
Dwelling in time stretched blissful peace
Awareness becomes unblinking
Till your fatal entry
My heart leaps with indignation
You ask through penchant, profound plea
Of my being; you’re quite brazen
Rewrite the...
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Categories:
abuse, addiction, anxiety, death,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Why do I Exist?Why do I exist?
A question that’s frequently on my mind
Every single day, I do new things
I try and try
To rid of these feelings
Yet to understand myself, with failure I abide
I wake up everyday
Put on...
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Categories:
absence, angst, dark, death,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
IN MEMORIAMHow pure the joy in this man's life
How mighty till the end
His greatest work - his girl, his boy
Their father and their friend.
Yet sweeter still their children brought
Such laughter with their...
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Categories:
appreciation,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
To My Future WifeIf ever thou didst love me first,
My heart shall pledge in boundless trust.
If thou bestowed upon me armor bright,
I would be thy golden knight.
If ever thou and I didst entwine,
I’d fight for thee with soul...
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Categories:
12th grade, cute love,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Remembering Your SongLet me hear your love song
Whilst in silence I was long
Let me taste your melody
Like sweet berries on my tongue
Let me hear your love song
Slide your bow across the strings
Move to the wave of my...
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Categories:
bereavement, death, first love,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
FragileThe day i lost the most fragile string on my guitar
I knew i was gonna lose, in my heart
But i kept moving forward thinking i won't cope
Because i didn't wanna lose in fear just for...
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Categories:
art, blue, loneliness, lonely,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Elegy to Alan and MichaelI miss you Michael a really great friend
When I dropped by your flat you got me high
Gave me game DVD’s to the end
Brain cancer killed you, so sorry good bye
You were on a...
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Categories:
eulogy,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
VoicesMom, Dad, I hope you are doing well.
Because honestly I am going through hell.
And I don't expect you to understand.
Because NOBODY else can.
I can't even say that I'm fine.
Because honestly that's another line.
Another line that...
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Categories:
10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Burial At Sea______________________________________________________________
There'd needn't be
no digs of earth
or clumps of clay
that weigh my girth,
...
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Categories:
baptism, bereavement, death, funeral,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Specific Types of Elegiac Lyric Poems
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Definition | What is Elegiac Lyric in Poetry?