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Grieving Poems - Poems about Grieving

Grieving Poems - Examples of all types of poems about grieving to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for grieving.
Premium Member When Everything Loses Its Beauty
...Every lively landscape and tree were stripped by fierce winter of their verdant, elegant dress: and while they are naked and grieving amid rainfall and fog: they still wish for sunny days! Ever......Read the rest...
Categories: grieving, anxiety, children, grandmother, lonely,
Form: Rhyme



The Great 8
...We started as 8 with the unique zest of life in our own way, but it was not to be for eternity for the first come in was the first to leave. This began for each of us a deep long look at our own mort......Read the rest...
Categories: grieving, bereavement, death, emotions, family,
Form: Ballad
Little meaning
...Today my life has little meaning, The hurt of loss is what I'm feeling, Losing my love is why I'm grieving, The cancer that was has got me seething, The doctors advice was misconceiving, Al......Read the rest...
Categories: grieving, bereavement, cancer, death,
Form: Rhyme
Weep
...“Weeping is a door out of grief. Walking along the path behind the door brings relief.” -Quote by Poet Nothing else mattered, She was torn and battered, Life had shown......Read the rest...
Categories: grieving, inspirational,
Form: Quatrain
Mother Nature - The Great
...In the realm of existence, where time unfolds, A tale of wonder, in verses untold. A symphony of life, in hues of vast, A saga of futures, present, and past. From the womb of chaos, creation sp......Read the rest...
Categories: grieving, absence, anger, earth day,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Write
...“I write my thoughts on paper, let ink of my soul glow, amidst the grief I carry in echoing stillness, for it is through words, I’ve found healing, my muse that wrapped my......Read the rest...
Categories: grieving, metaphor, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Burial Mound
...It would be a disaster! What would? The defacing of the burial stones. Who am I communing with? The council. Ahh, that's not as mysterious as I'd hoped. I might not have gone into the burial......Read the rest...
Categories: grieving, death,
Form: Narrative
Grieving Ancient City
...In ancient China's heart, a tale unfurls, Where sorrow's grip ensnares the Yellow River's curls. From four hundred thousand to nine hundred grand, In nineteen thirty-eight, despair swept the land.......Read the rest...
Categories: grieving, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Ecofeminism
...Fiji, the land of blue lagoons, with ancient wisdom still in blooms. It burns with a sacred flame, With our women's game. From the mountains of Nausori Highlands, To the shores of the islands,......Read the rest...
Categories: grieving, discrimination, earth day, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Mermaid Epitaphs
... As heartrose epitaphs swathe earthly echoes with swelled up w a v e s of spiritual sirens, sea-fairies collide with honeysuckle footprints, traced by mint-green manta rays al......Read the rest...
Categories: grieving, deep, destiny, emotions, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Grieving
...Grieving; I weep silently As daylilies die daily A slow death but violently Their leaves a yellow shaley Feelings that are despairing Heart pain, actual sorrow Tears because you'r......Read the rest...
Categories: grieving, beauty, depression, love, nature,
Form: Other
Premium Member It Was Love
... Isaiah 43:1 “But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mi......Read the rest...
Categories: grieving, appreciation, blessing, christian, god,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ode to Tulips
...The tulips are too excitable, it is Winter here. —Sylvia Plath (Tulips) Like Tulip-beds of different shape and dyes, bending beneath the invisible west-wind’s sighs. —Thomas M......Read the rest...
Categories: grieving, art, beauty, grief, poetry,
Form: Ode
The Grieving Mother
...I wasn’t asked if I was ready No answers to my “Why?” I had only just said hello When I was forced to say goodbye.......Read the rest...
Categories: grieving, bereavement, children, death, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Love
... Love, with all her iridescent shadows, bruised by trembling winds of melancholy, grieving the moments before vows were taken, startling away the fears, the tears, the years restoring ......Read the rest...
Categories: grieving, appreciation, love,
Form: Free verse

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