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Loss Haibun Poems

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


Premium Member The Minstrel of Moscow
"I follow the Moskva
and down to Gorky Park-
listening to the winds of change" - Scorpions

All the heads of state and their spouses (or significant others)...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: judgement,



Memories and Old Age

I was sitting around the fire pit the other night telling some exaggerated tale about something or another when I completely lost my train of...

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Categories: poetry,

Premium Member A Box of Everything
 

"The question. If someone handed 'me' a box with everything
in it that I had lost, what is the first thing, I would look for...

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Categories: how i feel,

Premium Member Featherless Angels
 
" I will send them without wings so
that no one suspects they are angels."

          ...

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Categories: angel,

Premium Member Ludicrous Lucidity
Yellowstone in winter. Canyon Falls, Rutherford Park, Old Faithful. Of all the places we had ever visited, this was his favorite. Josh even named one...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: addiction, loss, solitude,



Memory Lane
Listening to her talk about past times was thrilling. Going down memory lane wasn't what she liked. Embarking on yesterday’s plane wasn’t her kind of...

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Categories: death, family, farewell, grandmother,

Premium Member Spring
Oh the beauty it will bring. The air will be filled with the fragrance from the beautiful budding flowers and trees. The sweet smell from...

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Categories: bird, flower, rain, summer,

Premium Member Like a Child
Young children look at life differently than when they become adults.
Their love and sweetness shows through their eyes.
Why can't we keep this childlike view all...

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Categories: blue, child, love, sweet,

My Way
After enormous loss, I’m sure most of us have been here...


you were never there
when I worked my way through it
I made it without....

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© Neil Johns  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: loss,

Premium Member Promise Forgotten
a few years ago, my brother was visiting me - we don’t live in the same country, so we don't see each other very often....

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Categories: art, i miss you,

Premium Member Punish Twice
My dad was wise for all to see. 
Many a truth he did tell. 
He knew lying he would not have. 
Lying is not a...

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Categories: dad, daughter, truth,

Premium Member One's Kindness
I love hearing your voice on the phone. It is music to my ears. A card now and then comes in the mail. What a...

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Categories: beauty, day, flower, music,

Premium Member One Moment
Two women hug near the breath of a steaming oven. The beef stew bubbles.  Aroma floats upward in a canopy of captured mist. The...

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Categories: appreciation, business, care, feelings,

Premium Member Reflections - the Fragrance of Grace
Reflection - The Fragrance of Grace

Mail order catalogs seem to have the ability to procreate in my mailbox.  Just when I think I have...

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Categories: family, nostalgia, remember,

Moments of Reflection
I believe I fell asleep last year at the cusp of a new agenda.
As a new virus took root, I found myself eradicated from society
in...

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Categories: death, loss,


Book: Reflection on the Important Things