Grief Free Verse Poems
These Grief Free Verse poems are examples of Free Verse poems about Grief. These are the best examples of Free Verse Grief poems written by international poets.
The Dragon Weeping in her Bones
The Dragon Weeping in Her Bones
They say happiness is a flame,
brief as a match struck in rain.
I held it once—
a home, two sons,
a husband who
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Categories:
gothic, grief, heartbroken, loneliness,
All Of The Little Things Our Little Brains Choose To Remember For A Short Little While
Isn’t it odd?
All of the little things
that remain in our
little brains?
One day, you’ll
be walking down the
street, just minding your
own business, when suddenly
you’ll stop.
A sight,
A sound,
A
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Categories:
11th grade, age, appreciation,
The Nobel Prizes
When I walk among the living with this spectral face,
I, Alfred Nobel, weep for what bears my name.
I dreamed of honor that would heal nations,
of
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Categories:
adventure, allusion, appreciation, encouraging,
Death
Pyramids Poetry Contest
Joseph May
DEATH
Flat line
Cold hearted
One chamber, one shot
Suicide triggers loss
A good wife left grief-stricken
"Why did he give her a black rose?
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Categories:
dark, death,
Derailment
Swallowed prayers
Faith abandoned at the station
I step off the train at its final stop
And find my chest hollow
No shadows soft enough
To cradle a lie
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Categories:
allegory, allusion, analogy,
Choice
You ask for a choice
Right or left
Up or down
You demand an answer
Does it matter what is said
My choice is always wrong
So why do you
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Categories:
funny, grief, stress,
Expect the unexpected
Life changes come in little increments
along a fated journey fraught with twists and turns.
But once in a while
changes come on sudden and dramatic
like the day
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Categories:
change, death, grief, journey,
Leaning
As I navigate life after my son's suicide,
it is hard to answer the question "How are you doing?"
I am working, eating, sleeping, living, yet,
it doesn't
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Categories:
faith, grief,
When My Life Changed
In a dreary mood, bent and broken,
With an ailment that crippled my life
I lay bedridden for many a month
With every muscle weakened by arthritis
And
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Categories:
angst, depression, recovery from,
Our effervescence
Written: August 16, 2025, for contest by Unseeking Seeker
Line of inquiry:
"conjoined with the whole - we play our life role
exuding a scent
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Categories:
analogy, love,
It Will Always Rain on Me
It will always rain on me in all seasons.
Seasons jacketing me with dust,
Dust mostly from the dry season to absorb my hope.
Hope fractured
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Categories:
bereavement, endurance, hurt, life,
Exiles
Potent grief exists in the paternoster
recited by exiles each break of dawn —
and they never cease to mourn with drums.
Exiles are men
with two lives,
and
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Categories:
political,
Tears of the dragon
Beneath the black sky’s heavy sigh,
the dragon curls around its own shadow,
eyes glowing like stars drowning in sorrow.
It has burned kingdoms,
tamed storms with its wings,
and
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Categories:
absence, africa, anti bullying,
Never meant to depart
For weeks, my hands searched your side of the bed,
Yet emptiness mocked the warmth I desired.
Our love now lives in a distant, closed past,
Where memories
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Categories:
absence, divorce, heartbroken, i
The feelings we feel
Happiness is like waking up to see
my favourite dishes for breakfast;
toasted bread and fried eggs.
Getting to school early and scoring As on
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Categories:
8th grade, appreciation, character,