Grief Imagery Poems
These Grief Imagery poems are examples of Imagery poems about Grief. These are the best examples of Imagery Grief poems written by international poets.
Burial At Sea______________________________________________________________
There'd needn't be
no digs of earth
or clumps of clay
that weigh my girth,
...
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imagery, baptism, bereavement, death, funeral,
Message in a BottleI bottle my emotions,
Seal them tight like messages in glass,
Cast adrift in vast, uncaring seas,
Only to wash ashore, unbidden and misunderstood.
It was a journey long...
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imagery, allegory, boat, grief, hate,
The TrainAt two AM, it comes
Seven days a week
With its lonely haunting cry
The train calls to me
Beckons me to its tracks
In the stillness of the night
I...
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deep, emotions, grief, imagery,
BlameIt simmers. This constant invisible, hovering
like a wasp in the forever periphery threatening
lightning strike yellows, sudden and unbidden. It spills
and spools, down into...
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imagery, analogy,
The old wondererIn your latter days you had a good life
You sat under the mahogany tree near your hut
Watching the village as they moved about with their...
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death, eulogy, grief, imagery,
A Prayer, a Poem, or Whatever This Turned IntoTears are the prayers that can't be spoken
Love of God is love the can't be broken
Dreams are wishes for God to see
Thoughts are ways God...
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imagery, 10th grade, bird, god,
The Ratsthere are rats digging into my skin
you couldn't imagine the pain that im in
claws so sharp, it won't take long
moaning, marbled, mournful song
they're in my...
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imagery, dark, extended metaphor, horror,
To My First DogTo My First Dog
Long asleep in your unknown grave,
My companion, loyal and beloved
Throughout my youth’s growing years,
You cannot know nor now see
How you do still...
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grief, imagery, peace, pets,
Unassailable PurityWhen accidental
auroras stroll along
the pale highlights of
camouflaging corpses
and death blossoms
in vulturous hearts of
dreadful puppets,
she always holds
pixie dusts of
strawberry seeds within...
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imagery, angst, courage, dark, deep,
Hoaxed HydrangeasI am
your lilac moon,
cocooned in cashmere wool
of clouds that carol in chorus,
love-sewn
Searching
for life beyond
hieroglyphic fangs
of hoaxed hydrangeas, exiled in
grey moors;
Today,
jasmine stars taste
bittersweet and each tan
twilight...
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imagery, angst, deep, emotions, fantasy,
StillnessI was a learned meteorologist, studying azure atmosphere and vivid weather,
To give a prophetic daily forecast, like bees gliding remote locales of heather.
Often I had...
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Categories:
color, fantasy, imagery, nature,
CraneDuring the night, husks of buildings haunt the skies.
A hook hangs high a universe away.
It appears like a body - the way light lies.
Don’t do...
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Categories:
dark, death, grief, imagery,
Grief
Grief fills my days with forever loss,
Red roses withered on cold stones:
In my head, I see the creeping green moss,
Embracing the names engraved. And...
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Categories:
fear, grief, imagery,
Open Air Church By the Ocean
The ocean side church is serene and I am alone
with the Lord and I am praying silently
flickering candles cast shadows
as a tear falls down my...
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Categories:
imagery,
Infinity
I am not afraid of death, extinction, or eternal night
as once already, I was at the gates of Heaven
but they would not open...
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Categories:
death, imagery, life,