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Loss Literature Poems

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


Premium Member Bookish Menagerie: A Time Traveler's Library
Toddlers' Exploration: 

Cardboard drum, a thunderous beast,
Playful roars in tiny fists and feasts.
Fleeting wings glide, dreams just out of reach,
Soaring through tales of barnyard Waddles...

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Categories: literature, adventure, books, childhood, imagination,



When You Return Home
When you return home after many years,
stepping onto familiar soil,
your heart stirs with bittersweet anticipation.
The sun-tinted house that once witnessed your dreams
now stands a stranger,...

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Categories: literature, art, bird, emotions, feelings,

3 Words
“I am fine,” I say.
3 words,
1 lie.

“Do not worry.”
3 words,
1 lie.

“I have eaten.”
3 words,
1 lie.

“I’ll live.”
3 words,
1 lie.

“I’m sorry for your loss.”
6 words,
1 li[e]fe gone....

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Categories: literature, 12th grade, angst, conflict,

Debris
If only tears could talk,
They would surely be cutthroats.
If only fear could walk,
It would blindly go toward you.
And if only grudges are strong,
It would hold...

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Categories: dark, desire, literature, loss,

Dirty Laundry
My clothes smell like the green grass
I wash and watch and watch time pass

Another dollar spent
No time to repent

Heaven sent but hell bound
Hell no dont...

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Categories: house, literature, loss, poems,



A Psalm of Life
And I guess this is what life is-

Knowing that your best days are still ahead
That your mistakes are the pathways to finding yourself
Suffering through the...

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Categories: literature, butterfly, deep, freedom, inspiration,

We Shall Win
No one wants to low the highs

No one wants to dim the lights

No one races for a loss

No one goes for head or tail to...

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Categories: literature, age, birth, birthday, day,

Suburban Wastes Ii
Suburban waste stretches beyond and far away
Languishes under the hot hazy sun
Seasons reap
Memories run
Remembering things better left unseen
Memories reel in the theater on the mind
Things...

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Categories: literature, adventure, age, allegory, allusion,

For Good
FOR GOOD

It makes no sense,
The harder you ponder, you lose essence,
The deeper you dig you find loose ground,
And all that you are left with is...

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Categories: literature, africa, encouraging, endurance, life,

Premium Member Esmeralda, As Told By the Poet Pierre Gringoire - With Apologies To Victor Hugo
I had been placed in chains 
Where the cripples shed their canes 
And the blind regained the art of seeing.
It was a robbers’ den 
And...

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Categories: allegory, desire, literature, romantic,

David's Lament For Abasolom
DAVID’S LAMENT (FOR ABSALOM)
			
What voice is that beneath the wild thorn trees,
Where birds go up and broken branches swing?
Ah, words out of a dead mouth...

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Categories: literature, angst, bible, death, jewish,

My Brother Sebastian
Oh my brother Sebastian, where can he be?
I lost sight of him after our ship was sunk in the sea.
His death seems now like a...

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Categories: literature, loss, love,

Lost Pages of a Poet
Pages with my life on them
Angst, love, happiness, friendship, death, sadness
Words never to be read again
Feelings never to be felt again
Tall-tales never to be shared...

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Categories: literature, absence, creation, goodbye, grief,

There For Me
Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Categories: literature, 12th grade, character, hope,

Talking About Time
One minute,
a close call ...
almost anything.
all...
at the
instant of
absurd!
In convenience
of tragedy,
abuse...!
It doesn't fit the clock
deregulate time.
 facts, the
truths of life ...
Nor invent
circumstances
that reason does not
 ...

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Categories: literature, allusion, appreciation, creation, extended


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