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Elegies Poems - Poems about Elegies

DREAMY SKY
...[Intro] I take not one, but two— Cassidy pens all I see. His quill carves stars into drifting steam, Spilling my thoughts like melted tea. He’s writing now, as the train rolls in— Steam like ......

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Categories: elegies, confusion, crazy, dream, drug,
Form: Lyric
The Weight of What Isn’t
... They said grief was loud. Mine came in whispers— soft as moths chewing through my ribcage one memory at a time. There are rooms I can’t enter. Not because the doors are locked— but because......

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Categories: elegies, cry,
Form: Rhyme



Shadows of the Valley
...O' moment of mist-glazed melancholia ~ I'm shrinking in paper-cut smokes of shrivelling sunsets, amidst the seizures of silence, there I surf ~ in swollen skulls of selfless swan-orchids,......

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Categories: elegies, death, deep, emotions, grief,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Wand of Kismet
... Written: May 12, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Kai Michael Neumann Quote: “Set yourself on fire and seek those who fan your flame.” By Rumi *****************......

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Categories: elegies, analogy, divorce,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Runner
...When the heart feels the weight of unvoiced verses, as the verdant embers of Venus follow the frozen warmth and the permafrost flickers of persimmon and cinnamon, like poetry slipping throu......

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Categories: elegies, emotions,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member I call it a palace - my life - gilded and draped in fine silks
...I call it a palace - my life - gilded and draped in fine silks, where chandeliers shine like false smiles, And the walls echo laughter that isn't mine, but beneath the velvet curtains lies the bruis......

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Categories: elegies, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Letter That Came Too Late
... I opened it like a wound unwrapping itself, the envelope soft from time, your name trembling in a handwriting I had learned to forget. You said sorry. In ink, not voice. In past tense. ......

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Categories: elegies, 10th grade, absence, abuse,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Malignant Memories
...I trace bitter trials of another Helios spark~ as a collapsed marionette, barely seeing colors of clarity, between onyx-glazed flames, tangled in the hollow temple carved in mediev......

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Categories: elegies, dark, daughter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Threefold Threat
...When the dusk bleeds epitaph roses, and the blackbird sings wilted elegies, I search for a glimpse of gold beneath tender ingrains of soundless te......

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Categories: elegies, abuse, angst,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Dance of Death
...Zenith ~ a fatal lie written in forged gold, but to read the bruised ballads I’ve bled upon the palette of pixelated peridots in ominous silence, must I speak the romanticized rhymes of funeral......

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Categories: elegies, dance, dark,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Joy sans grief, a groom-less bride
...Full moons fill you with joy, seldom the New, And pleasure you conceive as good, not pain, Let me like New Moon that stars can I view, As some poets devise ways pain to feign, Which, helps them ......

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Categories: elegies, happiness, joy, moon,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Red Sun
...I still follow the blinking spells of the rose wine sunsets before surging sandstorms, believing in the euphoric breeze floating across the shivering skyline, echoing vermilion voices, lost i......

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Categories: elegies, deep, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member space between stars
...and in darkness ~ when the music of love is muted her thoughts b u r s t into a constellational c o l l i s s......

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Categories: elegies, dark, deep, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I go Insane
...Somewhere between fallen flares of an untouchable phoenix~ and the nostalgic red of crimson horizons, I feel the amethyst embers of longing illuminate rambling roses that mourn within my hib......

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Categories: elegies, absence, gothic,
Form: Free verse
A Tribute To Senses
... We eulogize our parents, kneel before teachers, Pay obeisance to idols, and praise every benefactor... Write poetry on our love, lyrics to our heartthrob, Elegies in the heartache and play E......

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Categories: elegies, 12th grade, thanksgiving,
Form: Free verse

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