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.
A Garden of MemoryThe morning comes with brittle cold,
Where once her garden used to grow.
My mother's hands lie cold and still—
The earth holds secrets she will never tell.
She...
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Categories:
elegy, mother,
Who Am I NowI 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,
Elegy for a Kitchen Table
The kitchen table
was the centerpoint of childhood,
a place of gathering,
an easel for artworks, battleground
for homework and Eden
for the creation of lifeforms
moulded from...
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Categories:
elegy, childhood, poetry, time,
Erinna Distaff TranslationERINNA
Erinna is widely regarded, at least by those who have read her, as second only to Sappho among the ancient Greek female poets. Little is...
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Categories:
elegy, child, childhood, death, death
Telma
Telma
People call me the firstborn
But in the warmth of this cold, I know it was you
The world wasn’t too kind to...
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Categories:
5th grade, 7th grade,
A Eulogy for the Toxic ExA hundred thoughts echo through my mind
A hundred emotions I cannot unwind
3000 yearnings, 9000 turns of regret
Walking in the shadow of death
I walk slowly with...
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Categories:
abuse, boyfriend, depression, fantasy,
Robert Sherriff black boy
black boy
A black boy in Chicago, barely twelve years old, reached into his pocket, seeking money’s hold. But a white cop’s bullets found their deadly...
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Categories:
age, america, black african
Sally Scarlet MacabreMy daughter - my love - my darkness - my only care.
Oh how I miss you dear, wish you were here.
But wishes cannot turn back...
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Categories:
art, child, dark, daughter,
Oh, My PapaAs I am writing this poem, my heart aches with sorrow.
Yet, a smile is on my face remembering you, knowing
that you loved me, wishing I...
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Categories:
appreciation, father, father daughter,
My Angel
' Angel does not appear from heaven but comes to rescue in guise of stranger or associate
...
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Categories:
angel,
Go In PeaceOriginal song: Go In Peace written by Sam Baker
Go and see what's waiting for you
Go and hear sweet angel's sing
I will come, and I'll be...
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Categories:
angel, baby, death, heaven,
Dear MotherFather 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,
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,
Final Words of a Bereft PoetIf I could no longer write poetry, I'd have no need of hands,
nor eyes weary from weeping, a heart that lies broken,
and a...
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Categories:
bereavement, poetry,
The Image of Him
The Mother Sun no longer embraced me
No more adrenaline rush that motivates me to get up
Breakfast seems bland, faded colors of rotten apple
Unfurled window curtains...
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Categories:
elegy, 10th grade, 11th grade,