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.
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Contest : Black Hole Love
Submitted: 16/7/25
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“Love embodies in millions of forms and frequencies, not all...
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imagery, allegory, allusion, change, character,
The Bell Tower That Leaned InI. The Pastor’s Hand
At dawn’s brittle cusp—
he climbs, each step
a nail in time’s coffin
breath ragged
...
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allegory, bereavement, devotion, imagery,
The First To DrownThe Earth isn't dying—no, she's screaming, a sound you've stopped hearing.
she cried when girls walked miles for rusted, tainted water,
when ancient forests become forgotten, ash–filled...
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imagery, inspirational, meaningful, metaphor,
No life, No deathOh death
The fear of countless souls
I adore your kiss
I need you close
When will we meet?
When shall you come?
It's too long a wait
Please come tonight...
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confusion, grief, hyperbole, imagery,
ChickadeeComing back home, after a long stint south,
I passed the blue sign on the turnpike that reads
“Massachusetts Welcomes You.”
Under the “Welcomes,” some Mayflower blooms,
And a...
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imagery, bird, death, emotions, feelings,
In stars above
Humming in hemlock heartbeats ~
along the shorelines
which once swallowed the sun
in their searing shadows ~
I see those smoking seawaves
swirling upon my skin,
as the...
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deep, emotions, imagery, moon,
Four Small LivesI lived in a cage.
I loved it.
The bars were golden.
They were polished each day
by hands that said they loved me.
I...
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emotions, grief, imagery,
Weary SoulYes ,yes I was a precious soul
Turned to a flower that's slowly decaying
My roots are dead and gone
Can only draw waters when I'm praying
The...
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imagery, deep, depression, grief, hope,
Echo in deaf earsLost deep in an echo chamber~
where I talked and my eardrums beat ceaselessly,
ricocheting voices of ghosts masked in agony,
tiptoeing faintly,
their feet blurred by the hallucinations...
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dark, imagery, imagination, night,
Seedsin soddening tempest
and billowing gale
i stand and plead with God
for drought
feet rooted in scuttling sand
wind-swept grains thrash at my face
i stand and plead with God
for...
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imagery, change, courage, environment, god,
Right Art ItAll at once, the soul takes flight
Rendering raw both dark and bright
Truth in touch, in wrong and right
In silent storms, I wield the night
Shaping shadows...
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imagery, art, assonance, heart, hyperbole,
Beyond the Cemetery Gate
Withering weeping willows
shade wrought-iron gates,
creaking in the midst of a cool mid-autumn gale.
Starless, charcoal skies loom above,
as birdsong of nightingales drifts through the evening.
Coming upon...
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imagery, death, gothic, grave, grief,
Along With The ThunderR a i n ~ a misted mirror
coated in petrichor pain ~
fused with memories
pirouetting through the
veiled salt of the earth,
caressing the Pina Colada dreams
adrift in...
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angst, imagery, poetry, poets,
Grief Lives Within Silence
A surrealistic silence hangs sluggishly in the air,
as I sit upon your violet clawfoot recliner,
sorting fuchsia dresses into melancholic piles.
An opal ring glistens while the...
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imagery, dark, death, grief, heartbroken,
Grief
“What is Grief?” asked my soul.
I didn’t know the answer to this riddle,
So, I went on a quest.
Some said it’s like “ink drenching the paper.”
Some...
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Categories:
imagery, depression, emotions, grief, hope,