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Loss Poems | Examples of Loss Poetry

Loss Poems - Examples of all types of loss poetry to share and read. This list of loss poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples of loss poetry. This list of works about loss is an excellent resource for examples on how to write loss poems.
A Painful Love
A pain I have Yes I do A pain I have just for you A pain thats like no other Causing you to shudder A pain I have Yes I do A pain I have caused by you...Read the rest...
Categories: depression, hurt, loss, mental
Form: Free verse

Premium Member Cold April Evenings
Chilling remains haunt On these cold April evenings I wish I'd forget See the stars dancing Flying among them are dreams So out of reach now You inspired hope Now you are a memory Holding my heart up Tears flow like...Read the rest...
Categories: loss, hope, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Traces
She hated that vacuum. She would run around and try to trip me. This chore used to take forever and ever… Now it’s done. All those traces of fur are gone. But we had to. Or else the house would be...Read the rest...
Categories: cat, loss,
Form: Free verse
Pending business
I hope the day we go I'd have cried all my sadness and I'd have understood what now I don't and that we'd look at each others eyes without ressentiment or fear without any pending business with only love... Jessica...Read the rest...
Categories: loss,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Quicksand of Thought
Like sands of thought, a whirlpool's dizzy spins and holes of black, where not a prayer escapes, the gravity ~ temptation's lurid sins, while empty vacuums fill and chaste guilt drapes. While strung...there draws a bow that sheds a...Read the rest...
Categories: loss,
Form: Sonnet

Splash
You would put your paws in your water dish. Tip it over and splash around. Paper towel was fruitless. You’d unravel it and tear it up. I was annoyed in those days. I was young and annoyed. I hate that I...Read the rest...
Categories: cat, loss,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Maybe We Can Use Electrolysis Instead of Immolation
to free this specter from its host caught in a body like bear trap a house made of arms that can't let go my hearth’s flame is selfish, unwilling to part with smoke without separation i will choke at the memory...Read the rest...
Categories: absence, break up, loss,
Form: Rhyme
Our Loss
Despite the vets, All of our pets. Pass one by one. We all used to have fun. Now there are only two. We’re starting to get a clue. That pets are ephemeral. Burial after burial. The pound is around the corner… But I would...Read the rest...
Categories: cat, loss,
Form: Rhyme
The Heartache of Farewell
The heartache of farewell Comes in layers and degrees of torment and suffering Some good and Bad, some may say it is all good in the end But regardless of platitudes and positive thinking after reflection at the...Read the rest...
Categories: farewell, goodbye, heartbreak, loss,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Zephyr
“The effervescent beauty needs to be embraced, for it may drift away with the wind” –Quote by poet The onyx hair untamed Some swirl in the squally stream Some lace lilting lattice on ivory forehead...Read the rest...
Categories: analogy, beauty, loss,
Form: Free verse
Dear Angel
Your nicknames come to mind. Those silly names we used all the time. We’d call you over. We still remember… Now all we have are the echos. Of the names we used to know. Your real name no longer makes me...Read the rest...
Categories: cat, loss,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Abandoned Farm in Northern Victoria
For decades, motor cars have driven past in haste, eyes not straying far from the highway to where, set back and obscured by scrub, an abandoned farm is slowly succumbing to rot. I catch a glimpse of an old cart out front and stop. Nothing moves...Read the rest...
Categories: absence, farm, identity, loss,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The space between
There exists a space between us that has widened since the passing, which slowly fills with more distrust as faint demons start trespassing. The closeness of a touch still there; but eyes that once stared into mine now focus elsewhere, in...Read the rest...
Categories: loss,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member An Unanswered Letter
The letter that was never read Though with it came an invitation Any reply would have been momentous Enough to move mountains Instead there came no response Those dice were thrown Producing naught but snake eyes From that minuscule moment Mountains of memories...Read the rest...
Categories: loss, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Ephemera
Grasping it like an heirloom. Alone in this room. I saw a whisker. I knew it was from her. Gray, yet somehow bright. A piece of you that you left one night. Trying to clean, to help myself calm. But now I...Read the rest...
Categories: cat, loss,
Form: Rhyme

Specific Types of Loss Poems

Read wonderful loss poetry on the following sub-topics: baby, brother, brother in law, cat, child, dog, father, friend, horse, mother, pet, stepfather and more.

Definition | What is Loss in Poetry?


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