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JimJim
by Lanier Thomas
I tried to tell you, but you refused to hear.
As soon as I returned home from the Army
You took me straight to your drug dealer’s abode.
That was more than my friendship could ever...
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Categories:
death, drug, grief, sorrow,
Form: Ottava rima
Belladonna FieldGood night, old friend.
Hush and sleep.
I’m here as long as we can pretend.
Even after you leave.
If pain is a gateway to the soul,
then my dreams deem your words the key to such a portal
I just...
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Categories:
angst, dark, grief, pain,
Form: Free verse
Beyond All Reason
Midst the ruins of a once proud city blown apart by a holocaust of destruction,
Men of war with fierce firing flames killing all without regard or compassion,
Held in with fences and unclimeable walls...
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Categories:
conflict, cry, death, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Categories:
grief, war,
Form: Quatrain
Sea of my youthSea of my youth.
What part made it hard to Love me, the Bering sea of my youth, I'd settled less, for lies and so you burried down the truth, what become of my love...
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Categories:
age, blue, dark, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Hurt like a dog on a leashI’m a dog stuck on a lease I’m stuck in this non release stupid thing why won’t let me go free?
Why don’t they care I got feelings too? And I can feel pain too I...
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Categories:
grief, abuse, anger, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
The Bio Wars: Pain InfectiousPerpetual pain palliated by loving hands
ever lingering under bandaged wounds;
fetted rot tucked under perfumed blanket.
Covered is the massing doubt, ever growing,
Smothered; thoughts transient as dreams.
To hide quaking mask of broken memory.
Running. Inevitable is the spreading.
Infectious...
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Categories:
allusion, cancer, death, grief,
Form: Free verse
That blind eyeStare into the abyss
A shadow holds you and your throat is dry
Take a drink and sit down
Headache
Banging like the FBI
On the doorstep near-by
Hazel and chocolate berries
Was always a...
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Categories:
abuse, conflict, grief,
Form: Free verse
LAST BATTLELAST BATTLE
If I become too weak
And it's too hard for me to stand and sleep
I know deep in your heart
You don't want to do this
Please do whatever you see fit
But all this time together I'm...
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Categories:
grief, best friend, dog, god,
Form: Rhyme
A Stomped On HeartMy whole nervous systems fried
There's a day I haven't cried
From the feelings I've bounced
all around--it's like you pounced
On a heart you suffocated
That can't be resuscitated
My life force is being drained
And your footprint is engrained
With tread...
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Categories:
abuse, grief, pain, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
Bygones
Imprisoned by the way things are,
Breakfast, coffee and cream,
Eggs with toast
Sometimes it’s burnt, branded
By the decades old toaster – former things,
We can’t replace,
Because this one is a memory bearer,
Possessing days gone now,
Days before his heart...
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Categories:
grief, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
A Delightful EncounterWalking downstairs; I see particles of light,
Shimmering in my dark brown long hair.
The light of stars is so bright that it
Envelopes all the darkness into light.
Sauntering there; I am made aware,
By the crispy clear...
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Categories:
grief, childhood, dad, daughter, death,
Form: Prose
Prologueeyes have lost the shine
lost the path I never knew was mine
this seems like a never-ending dream
uneasy rhythm oozing from these pores
saw a reaching hand, but it was too blurry
salt brimming the eyes, forced...
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Categories:
cry, grief, sad,
Form: Free verse
The Turn of an Unfriendly CardTurn of An Unfriendly Card
(Tarot 3 of Swords)
I cannot empathize with a shattered heart.
That image of a fragile, breakable baby pink orb
Is insulting to how I feel.
The turn of an unfriendly card depicts three swords
thrust...
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Categories:
endurance, grief,
Form: Free verse
Before we could meetFor my mother and her first baby, James, who died shortly after birth.
O baby-love that did not come true,
The breath of life did not catch you,
Your body perfect, like a rose,
Ten finger petals, button nose.
The...
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Categories:
birth, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Grief Poems
Definition | What is Grief in Poetry?
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