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Mother Elegy Poems

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


Premium Member Her Wedding Day
Based 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,



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,

Deathiversary
Perplexed and dismayed
In the seeming misery.
This bewildered soul so abashed
Within the bodied figure so jittery.

Daunted her deep-felt presence
He wonders, if lost.
Heart sobs within, in cold...

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Categories: anniversary, death, fear, feelings,

Glum Yet Grateful
Here 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,



Premium Member 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,

My Friend Is Gone
My friend is gone!!
For a journey 
Which is at the top
A place with honey!!

My soul weep
As the sun cry
So the earth shift
Story now like a...

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Categories: 12th grade, anger, art,

American Sonnet
American sonnet

Today is sunny with a few decorative clouds drifting idly about the sky and the mood is of optimism
When it is overcast and dull...

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© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: absence, allusion, angel, cinco

Premium Member Nothing Compares To You
“Nothing Compares to You” 

Nothing compares to you
the cancel culture cancels you
you love you lose
on repeat in the loop
you love you lose

a child lost in...

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Categories: child, eulogy, love, mother,

He Is Dead
Hear them pray for the last time,
their leather boots no protection still.
Listen to the church bell chime.
Hear the men ordering to kill.

Turn off the radio.
Stop...

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© Nelly Osth  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: elegy, death, goodbye, hero, holocaust,

Elvis a Friend
Elvis, a friend.

Into my café, a young man who combed his hair
Elvis Priestly style and naturally got the nickname, Elvis
He didn’t mind; the name gave...

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© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: anti bullying, best friend,

Premium Member Cry Uhuru Cry Freedom
Until the blood
   Flowing in my veins equals
     The blood flowing in theirs 
 The cry for freedom
 ...

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Categories: analogy, angst, feelings, pain,

My Greatest Pain
Making 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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Categories: 1st grade, 2nd grade,

Life In My Land
Life in my Land
Life in my land is not by right
With greed, we are wound around
Hardened ruiners ravaging all we have
Like raptor they kill, devour...

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Categories: fear, grief, metaphor, murder,

Give It a Name Part 2
I can’t let them 
Become foggy
Looking at them through glasses
That are smoggy
Talking of them with thoughts
That are groggy
Hiding in sentiment
Senseless and soggy

What name can I...

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Categories: family, memory, missing you,


Book: Shattered Sighs