Grief Elegy Poems
These Grief Elegy poems are examples of Elegy poems about Grief. These are the best examples of Elegy Grief poems written by international poets.
Laughter in the ShadowsIn chambers filled with laughter, light, and carefree sound,
A discordant echo hangs, heavy and unbound.
A specter in the corner, draped in deep shadows,
A chilling truth...
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Categories:
anxiety, conflict, death, feelings,
Her Wedding DayBased upon an entry in the mid-19th Century autobiography of Presbyterian Theodore Clapp, who lived for several decades in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Of the many young...
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Categories:
death, family, grief, heartbreak,
Left Behind“How exactly, my love, am I to die well?”
The question croaked - a ghostly whisper;
from her lingering mouth
of rotten teeth and wretched lips;
broken by...
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Categories:
death, grief, longing, loss,
When Leaving Morphs to GrievingThough it is time to say goodbye,
I will abide my heart and try
Not to collapse and maudlin cry,
For there is a burning need that I
Cannot...
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Categories:
grief, how i feel,
Elegy DEADED SOULS TALK N-WALKElegy DEADED SOULS TALK N-WALK
Interment unholy uncovered grounds;
Awesomely truest self instantly found;
The dead bones rise up also them so walk
Ever-presents of open-armed God Crowned;
Humanity and...
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Categories:
elegy, absence, analogy, bereavement, confusion,
Glum Yet GratefulHere comes the dawn
of a thoughtful Mourn.
Month of the desecrated demise
of a Monumental personage.
Unpleasant feels beclouds the air
I consume,
My structure reconciles itself
to the dreadful...
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Categories:
anniversary, death, feelings, heartbroken,
Lambent EmbersI am in my life’s October,
Where passion plays its role
And when embers of my memory stir,
Their sparks engulf me whole.
They help me to remember,
And...
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grief, how i feel,
Our Beloved JessSharp eyes dimmed ,a last spark of life
Looking puzzle and questioning
Into my soul went his silent plea,
As if to say...
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Categories:
absence, animal, bereavement, cat,
Cry Me a RiverCry me a river, let your tears flow
Drown me in sorrow, the pain that you know
Let me feel the weight of your broken heart
And together,...
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Categories:
10th grade, 11th grade,
KeepsakesIn an old biscuit tin
With my bits and pieces put in
That remind me of our times
And things that are always mine
I take them out...
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Categories:
america, death, grief,
The Silence of Yesterdayfor abunic sheriff – a friend who battled sickle cell.
yesterday the bones in my friend’s body wrote me a note of grief saying that they...
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Categories:
death, deep, for him,
No RegretsIf I could take it all back
Every wrong ever wrought
Every regrettable thing
Every broken wing
I'd lay it all to rest
In an unmarked plot
Over which I would...
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Categories:
elegy, bird, death, eulogy, funeral,
My Greatest PainMaking ends meet, dad was always boxing mum
For all i can trace and gun
Mighty hand when will mum and dad stop punching in this ring...
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1st grade, 2nd grade,
LonelinessIn the dingy room all alone
A awful solitary
Hold me in shallow opaque
I live in a claustrophobic world
I asked myself, am i a victim of life?...
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Categories:
death, emotions, evil, fate,
LonelinessIn the dingy room all alone
A awful solitary
Hold me in shallow opaque
I live in a claustrophobic world
I asked myself, am i a victim of life?...
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Categories:
death, emotions, evil, fate,