Grief Haiku Poems

Eyes closed in protest—
tears blurred the leaving moment
I dared not witness....

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neon flickers pink,
cherry blossoms broken glass——
I drank the false moon....

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skies of sapphire  s
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Sorrow's heavy cloak, 
Silent tears on shadowed cheeks, 
Heart remembers loss.

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I map empty rooms,
marking them with your absence—
an atlas of loss....

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The rain is of God,
watering his divine love;
hydrating all life:-

Evaporating,
God's rain ascends heavenly;
condensding to earth:-

Raining tears of grief,
always, via God, become
healing tears of joy:-...

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Gray skies, silent tears, 
Empty chair, a whispered name, 
Memory's cold stone.

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Embryonic Stage

So comfy and warm
Not feeling a hint of harm
Oh, what’s happening

Birth

Good grief, it’s so cold
O’er and o’er again was told
“Beautiful baby”

Child Age

Play sports, make...

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Tears fall like cold rain
Sliding down dry, tender cheeks
As though thin ice caved

As though floodwaters
Prisoner to a mighty dam
Is captive no more

As though chained feelings
Cool...

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At this moment,
A billion stories unfold,
Pages of joy and grief....

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Courage is action
When terror strangles your heart
You act anyways

Violence subdued, men
Become peaceful, not harmless
Peace is self control. 

Love exists only
When acted upon in pain
Love's not...

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Four gunshots go off
down, down, down, I go,
I wasn't even there
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We fall, break and bleed, 
and we heal but scars stay, yet 
scars show wars we won.

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Cambodia
where they blame
everyone else...

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pink fireweed blooms
through the spokes of the ghost bike 
beside the highway 
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