Memory Elegy Poems
These Memory Elegy poems are examples of Elegy poems about Memory. These are the best examples of Elegy Memory 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,
A Dirge
(In memory of Uncle Thomas)
Bumpy breeze, like a blasting roar
That day when you did soar without an oar
Twenty-two years of sorrow, too long
For many years,...
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Categories:
dark, death, depression, sick,
Brother Of Our SoulsBorn December 5, 1961,
blonde cherubic, lips of rose buds,
eyes of the bluest baby innocence.
Remember the 1960's brother,
Massapequa proud, Long Island.
Our Cedar Street,
lined once with what...
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Categories:
7th grade, 8th grade,
Purity(for CFD, 1944–2023)
Something blinked inside my soul
I used to be half but now I’m whole
To me, the diamond ring is coal –
That’s purity of...
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Categories:
dad, death, father, loss,
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,
Categories:
elegy, angel, bereavement, death, devotion,
Love FoeverIt was a cold winter day
when you slipped away
sorrow settled upon our soul
we did not want to let you go
your days were numbered
we did not...
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Categories:
death,
In memory of passing away of my friend, Ben Today, we gather not to mourn the passing of our dear friend Ben, but to celebrate a life that brought us immeasurable joy and love.
In...
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Categories:
death of a friend,
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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Categories:
grief, how i feel,
Dreams Coercing Memory
“Dreams Coercing Memory”
You want cherries jubilee
with a little Krug champagne
but soft custard is just the same
when reality plays its game
by the spoonful
morphine comes
to...
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Categories:
death, family, life, love,
An Elegy For a Legend, In Memory of the Inspiration That Was Mehdi Bagheri, My Great TeacherHe is dead. My beloved teacher is gone.
Like the burning sun, with knowledge he shone
A man of letters, he would voice his thoughts
Costing him...
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Categories:
elegy, in memoriam, inspiration, mentor,
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,
PsithurismThere was a sickly tree
In a barren clearing
In a burning country
On a mourning day.
A wild crown of branches
Haloed by concentric rings;
A rising wave of spires...
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Categories:
extended metaphor, fate, fire,
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,
Clothes In a WardrobeClothes in a wardrobe still so neat
Your favourite fragrance makes it so complete
A task set without choice for me
To sort your things not so easily...
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Categories:
death, death of a