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Loss Free Verse Poems

These Loss Free Verse poems are examples of Free Verse poems about Loss. These are the best examples of Free Verse Loss poems written by international poets.

Tangerine Sunsets

I love the end of the day,
when the sun want to climb into bed.
The moon will be rising soon,
showing off it's big bright face.

 

The...

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Categories: day, flower, goodbye, love,

Splash

You would put your paws in your water dish.
Tip it over and splash around.
Paper towel was fruitless.
You’d unravel it and tear it up.
I was annoyed...

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Categories: cat, loss,

Two Doves

Two Doves
Once upon a time, in a kingdom far away, lived two childhood sweethearts named Aiden and Adeline. Despite growing apart due to societal expectations...

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Categories: angel, beach, bird, blessing,

The Heartache of Farewell

The heartache of farewell
Comes in layers and degrees of torment and suffering
Some good and Bad, some may say it is all good in the end
But...

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Categories: farewell, goodbye, heartbreak, loss,

Zephyr


“The effervescent beauty needs to be embraced,
for it may drift away with the wind” –Quote by poet
 

The onyx hair untamed 
Some swirl in the...

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Categories: analogy, beauty, loss,

You will untie knots from your chain, with trembling hands whistling in the wind

You will untie knots from your chain, with trembling hands whistling in the wind,
And you will be unstrung, in turn, from someone's necklace, like an...

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Categories: fantasy,

Abandoned Farm in Northern Victoria


For decades, motor cars
have driven past in haste,
eyes not straying far
from the highway to where,
set back and obscured
by scrub,
an abandoned farm
is slowly succumbing to rot.
I...

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Categories: absence, farm, identity, loss,

To which image should we cling?

Trailing clouds of glory do we come
The magical moments of childhood
When we felt at one with the universe
Spinning dizzily with delight

Or with more of horrible...

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Categories: family, memory, nostalgia,

An Unanswered Letter

The letter that was never read
Though with it came an invitation
Any reply would have been momentous
Enough to move mountains
Instead there came no response
Those dice were...

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Categories: loss, lost love,

Love on the Run

A touch too close and a gaze too sincere,
Was the Jenga player about to pull an upset loss? 
Faulty by design, promise and execution 

Does...

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Categories: fate, lost love, romance,

Unraveled

I could fill a bottle with air,  
sunken by liquid depression.    
A matter so densely populated.     
by...

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Categories: anger, dark, depression, feelings,

The daily grind

Trailing clouds of glory do we come 
Until by the end we are left dull and glum.
How it all came to this
We are responsible
 For...

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Categories: corruption, slavery,

The End

I know this feeling ...
Like a metal rusting ...
Like a thread pulling apart with every pull ...
Like a stone eroding to soil ..
I have felt...

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Categories: break up, emotions, grief,

Heads or tales

The ramblings of an old man. Whose years have seen what this life is. Whose eyes have seen the cold man and felt his passing...

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Categories: age, cry, dark, fear,

To a Dead Mouse


	I
Friend, whatever brought your life to end
had no appetite for mouse flesh, nudged your
small gray body on its side with a thorough sniff
and left your...

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Categories: in memoriam,