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An elegy poem is a form of poetry consisting of mourning, or sad and thoughtful feelings about the death of an individual, but there is more to an elegy. What is elegy in poetry (complete definition)?
Onto the Fullness of My God-Follow me I'm accustomed to eternal beauty;
Come with me as I walk into the lands;
As I'm wearing the wings,
surrounding my head;
I will fly away;
One day;
~ now I'll fly away,
In awe onto the...
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Categories:
adventure, bereavement, blessing, cheer
Form: Elegy
ENDLESS TEAR
It hasn’t been easy
That you left is still a mystery
I never knew you but from pictures
Are you one or not of heavenly creatures?
From a far smoke wails into the sky
The knowledge of the burning bush...
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Categories:
absence, death,
Form: Elegy
FLESHLY DEAD WHILE YET SPIRITUALLY ALIVE-I was alive laid in my bed
I've risen yet asleep
I'm dead asleep yeah
I laid in this coffinbound eyes glued shut
My lips mouth closed glued, sewed up
Somebody lead
Same body fled
I rise not...
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Categories:
adventure, allusion, analogy, anxiety,
Form: Elegy
DEAD IN BODY LIFEIN SPIRIT-Flower passes height
growing in the light
I'm still alive in spirit yet dead in body
don't look at my still cold dead flesh
Ravens and sparrows and robin's fly my life hid
I lived, I...
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Categories:
absence, anxiety, bereavement,
Form: Elegy
A Tribute To Gani
Yesterday,
It was just yesterday in September,
He was laid to rest in golden casket,
Though he lived a golden life to deserve more.
Yet as men do,
The celebration of hypocrites comes after the death of kings.
Rare Wig gawk...
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Categories:
appreciation, bereavement, courage, eulogy,
Form: Elegy
SunsetDeath is as beautiful as sunset
Leaving the place, you loved best.
Going far away on this trip
Some have regrets, some of the smartest.
In the silent whisper of empty breath,
A wish for fire, earth, and...
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Categories:
death, eulogy, future, grief,
Form: Elegy
Elegy to an InfantDeath has taken you now so far away.
Now you have taken on an angel's form.
Heavenly Father has the final say.
Although on earth here we are left to moan.
Oh, baby, my baby, why have you gone?
Right...
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Categories:
child,
Form: Elegy
Memory SpeaksEchoes from the past
Thunder from the tongue less cavern of the earth
To rouse my anesthetized sail from slumber,
Sutured wounds crack open, oozing fresh flood
As the pain of yesterday visit suddenly
-drawing rivulets from sunken eyes.
Blind eyes...
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Categories:
death, emotions, eulogy, farewell,
Form: Elegy
One on the chin
I know life is fleeting, it all but crumbles to dust,
willessly washed away by the passage of time.
So easily lain waste and forgotten.
Yet for me who knew her dearest,
so easily enamoured by her graceful nature,
swooned...
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Categories:
beauty, grief, hope, love,
Form: Elegy
The Star of OmanThe Star of Oman
By Joji Varghese Kuncheria
The star that dawned the horizon,
For five decades is gone for ever,
But the legacy is going to remain,
As a beacon to lead generations.
The people of the...
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Categories:
bereavement, celebrity, death, feelings,
Form: Elegy
cult of the maskThe cult of the mask dictates:
that if you don't staple a mask to your face
you're to be given the stink eye
and treated as a leper-forever berated
you're not to attend places of worship
but "peaceful" rioting and...
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Categories:
america,
Form: Elegy
Dear DADDEAR DAD
Here is a poem from you children and wife.
Hoping we can make it without you in our life
Missing you more as the time goes by,
We know you pray for us in your home in...
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Categories:
dad, death,
Form: Elegy
MY CHOICE elegyWith
a kiss
on her lips-
a face cold and
bare,
still,
beauty in her stare-
but she was not
there...
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Categories:
poetry, word play,
Form: Elegy
Papa's GloryHis feisty manner,top notch brain
How I wish it was not the truth
Will always in our thoughts remain
The lord of good!
I know you tried
To cling to life; your selfless actions
among family gone before,the clouds are moving
But...
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Categories:
addiction, appreciation, art, bereavement,
Form: Elegy
A Dying Wish
Mr. Policeman:
I, Georgie beg of thee ...
may I pull my neck out
from underneath your knee
Dear, Mama:
I have a nervous boy Floyd feeling
something fatal
is ‘bout to happen to me
Mr. Policeman:
Badge rudely, you trigger temper ask
how...
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Categories:
death, pain, sorrow, violence,
Form: Elegy
Specific Types of Elegy Poems
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Definition | What is Elegy in Poetry?