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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)?
BootlessTen years spun into ballooning wear
Keep slipping through tighter fingers,
Fresh year's tries in futility repair
Adamant dents of wasting days.
Naive New Year's Eves pop in and go
In swift succession of dying dreams,...
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Categories:
age, allusion, anger, angst,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
The land of four sunsthe land of five suns
each with its duty
one dries beads of dew
that stagger as rodent
from rabbit hole
another people’s hopes
that form in dreamy eyes
of orphans
milk from udders the other dries
that no woman may hold...
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Categories:
allusion, betrayal,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Ocean of stormsOcean of Storms
Ocean of storms within' my sleep
The sun is white with envy
The sky is raining blood
All the hatred with the flood
And visions I rather not keep.
As I relentlessly endure the fears and...
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Categories:
anxiety, dream, fear, night,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
The TributeThere are not enough words to describe
The devotion and compassion this poet's eyes beheld.
It was a plain room arranged for safety,
comfort, and care.
A fine bantam table re-purposed with medical supplies
for any emergent unplanned...
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Categories:
angst, appreciation, beauty, bereavement,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
A Child's VigilThe stillness of her sleeping form
outlined against my bedroom wall.
The feather tic tossed in restless sleep
Blocked my access underneath
for the doll, I sought to comfort me.
As I crept across the floor.
Our breath attuned in synchronous...
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Categories:
angst, blessing, care, childhood,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Emptinessinside power
there is no power
outside power
only emptiness
...
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Categories:
destiny, humanity, irony,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
My Broken Heart "Loved you then. Love you still.
Always have, and always will."
_ from a song by...
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Categories:
grief, heart, love,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
I have known giantsI have known giants in my time
Some may think them ordinary and that’s fine
For they did wondrous such things
Things that still in my mind rings
For you don’t have to climb the highest mountain
To see...
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Categories:
relationship,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
By the Wayside StrickenWho lies now by the wayside stricken,
sick of body, sick of soul?
His eyes are closed, his ears are deaf
to the somber bells that toll.
I knew this man now sadly stricken
in happier days when...
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Categories:
friend, humanity, sympathy,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Moonlight Ghost ResemblanceTears flow in torrents,
spasmodic gulp and shiver,
I weep aloud when haunted by some moonlight ghost resemblance
my dead cousin’s fleeting angel halo to the fore.
?Shrouded in a haze of mournful rupture,
knowing that our deepest wounds precede...
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Categories:
art, care, character, deep,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Stained Glass CryTears flow in torrents, I shiver and gulp, weeping loudly by the window at my dead cousin’s fleeting ghostly figure.
Date posted : January 16th 2021
Contest : 20 Words Max - Do It With Feeling Poetry...
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Categories:
art, care, character, death,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Youthful StarsThe youthful sun, the youthful stars
The smiling moon in days long past.
Our steps round fires warm and bright
In youthful days and enchanting nights.
Boys in groups, girls dancing shy,
We talked about books and how to fly,
And...
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Categories:
age,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
No WitnessNo living witness to The Truth
None has died, returned to testify.
Each his day, back to the root
Tombstone a memory beneath which to sigh.
...
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Categories:
death, god, life, memory,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Bounce and BoogieFindlay Wooster, he told me
he was, a world famous
Producer. We started Date-em
My intisipation he would be
true. He introduced me to
Goneil Lago, a chelloust from
"Mix and Waco" the bank thats
always on the tele. I...
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Categories:
music,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Gaffa and Swiggle groove and bounceWe went to Date-on Ohio
164 miles away to
Do the gig.
Swank and Swiggle
Has successfully convented
Our manager to stopover
Linzzies Supper club
To hear the orchestra
Swede got drunk and
Wanted to mingle. He
Caught up wiff sum slink
she was tryna...
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Categories:
music,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Specific Types of Elegiac Lyric Poems
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Definition | What is Elegiac Lyric in Poetry?