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Mom Elegy Poems

These Mom Elegy poems are examples of Elegy poems about Mom. These are the best examples of Elegy Mom poems written by international poets.


Who Am I Now

I was your mom before i was anything else,
My name, before my plans,
Before the life i thought i’d have—
I was yours.

Now the world keeps turning,
But
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Categories: change, child, death, grief,



Premium Member MOM

A empty page awaits the perfect words I hope will convey what I feel when looking back at the lifetime we shared.  

But I
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Categories: mom,

Premium Member The Family Gathering

Lamentable, the family gathering
on the other side of sunshine,
with possessions no longer bothering,
sans loving cups, draining of wine.

Great-grands, grands, aunts, uncles, cousins and unborn,
one mom,
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Categories: family,

Premium Member Dear Mother

Father said I was two and a half to three. I'm not sure.
A serious illness, he said, which no doctor could cure.

Glance at your mom
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Categories: mother,

Premium Member To The Dad I Once Knew

* Note My dad passed away today, a little over seven months since my mom passed. After a thirty year estrangement my dad and I
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Categories: 1st grade, death, father,



Premium Member Love Foever

It 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,

Premium Member Love U More

Snow fell softly coating the brown ground to white
hoar frost hung and decorated the trees 
sprinkles from the trees fell upon us
deep coldness of the
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Categories: death,

Premium Member Adieu

Howl fir tree, the cedar is fallen 

From this narrow lane of time,

from this uncertain strait and burdens

from these enclaves of wearying vanity fair,

from this
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Categories: death, faith, family, grief,

My Hero

‘Twas he, ‘Twas he,
  Who fought for the free,
‘Twas he, ‘Twas he,
  Was how a man should be.

He was betrayed by his own,
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Categories: absence, analogy, christian, courage,

Premium Member Let the Sadness Rise

~~ If fleshy ailment's a~
~~~~~ disguise, ~~~~~
~ this advice certainly ~
~~~~~ applies: ~~~~~

You gotta let the sadness
~~~~~~ rise, ~~~~~~
~up through your heart~
~~ and to the
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Categories: death, depression, grief, heart,

Lady Stetson Rides No More

Her dried-up withering petals once shone lovely in the golden sun
growing older now in the mirror’s unforgiving reflection.
She’s lingering among the living, as if her
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Categories: farewell, for her, goodbye,

Final Lullaby

Final Lullaby
by Michael R. Burch

for my mother, Christine Ena Burch

Sleep peacefully—for now your suffering’s over.

Sleep peacefully—immune to all distress,
like pebbles unaware of raging waves.

Sleep peacefully—like
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Categories: elegy, death, eulogy, funeral, Lullaby,

Me

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mom, dad, brother

mom, dad, brother

mom, brother

dad, brother

brother

brother

girlfriend, brother

girlfriend, brother

wife, brother

wife, daughter, brother

wife, daughter

wife, daughter, son

daughter, son

daughter, son

daughter, son

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me
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Categories: allegory, bereavement, birth, death,

I Lost All

I lost all my favorite 
people to death/
that is why broken smiles sleep 
on face/
that is why i am always lonely in a 
room full
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Categories: 12th grade, africa, dark,

I'M In Pain

You waved goodbye with a
               smile, 
 I couldn't argue because
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Categories: cry, eulogy, lost love,


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