SEVEN DAYS AFTER
The cloud swallowed up his plane,
As she said a little prayer.
“Soon,” he had said at the last,
“Soon our new life will begin.”
Seven days after, it came;
The notepaper edged in black.
“I regret to inform you…….”
What Happened After poetry contest
Sponsor - Nette Onclaud
18/07/25
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Categories:
loss,
Form: Verse
On The Record
All that I am I gave away
For just to come and see
The ever-dying summer day
With sunlight through your tree
You’ve gone, but on the record
Your voice remains with me
It takes about split second
To change the time, to be
Back in the endless days
To see again your smile
You’re talking through November haze
I answer from July..
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Categories:
day, loss, miss you,
Form: Rhyme
As fast as a bullet
Categories:
loss, time, youth,
Form: Monoku
Waves That PullOne step away
from waves that play.
In that fresh light,
he let go that night.
I thought back then,
that was all it had been.
I stayed to see
each wave hit me.
With heart shut tight,
no stars in sight.
My hands let go,
they moved so slow.
Each night I'd fall
inside the call—
the thoughts so loud,
the cries unbowed.
Maybe it's me
who made him flee…
But how...
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Categories:
loss, child, child abuse, in
Form: Free verse
Perhaps Tomorrow Night
At nights I catch you
in my dreams,
only sleep always
fails to keep you there,
perhaps tomorrow night
you will stay,
for in our short lives
we were but a dream
though we both
know the past was real.
Each night you appear
less and less,
perhaps you were
a dream and neither
of us were real
the bars on the windows
tell you all...
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Categories:
dream, loss,
Form: Free verse
Funny How a Room Dies
Funny how a room dies
First it’s off to college
Then out into the world
Blink twice, there’s marriage
Into the abyss,...
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Categories:
growing up, home, loss,
Form: Free verse
I didn't get to say goodbye
It always seemed things would fall
into place in some distant future.
It was delusional to think
we'd always have tomorrow.
So no heart-to-heart in our future.
Questions left suspended in mid-air
are meant to remain unanswered
and mysteries destined to stay unsolved.
Now that ship has sailed,
opportunities squandered
and it's too late ~
we just ran out of time.
And I’m the one left empty...
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Categories:
loss, angst, conflict, goodbye, grief,
Form: Free verse
Dear Sonny, When You Close Your EyesDear Sonny, when you close your eyes one last time, and bid this world adieu,
know I am glad for the time I had
that I could spend with you.
Dear Sonny, when you close your eyes one last time, and you come apart,
Know you'll stay with each new day
living always in my heart.
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Categories:
loss,
Form: Rhyme
For TuppenceBorn 31st July 2014 – Passed 16th July 2025
When shadows fell and nights grew long..
You came into my life.. a light, a song.
So soft, so sweet, with joy so true..
The world felt brighter just with you.
You made me laugh when I would cry..
A wagging tail, a knowing eye.
No judgment, just your steady grace..
Pure love reflected...
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Categories:
loss, best friend, dog, heartbroken,
Form: Rhyme
Never say that she is deadWe will not say that she is dead.
We have never said that she is dead.
We will never say that she is dead.
We’ll say she’s in heaven
We will say she passed away
We tell the children she went to God’s house
And became an angel on the way.
We say she’s gone
We say she died
But none...
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Categories:
loss, death, funeral, goodbye, grandparents,
Form: Elegy
Any given moment, any given timegrief is a complicated feeling; it doesn’t always hold the
loss of something. But in some cases, in my case, it’s the quiet ache of dread, the feeling that encapsulates quiet certainty of impending loss, something that means more to you than anything, that in the here and now, is still with you.
Yes, you may...
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Categories:
loss, death, grief,
Form: Free verse
The Things I Never BuriedI never buried certain names,
They lingered like a scent in air.
I whispered them through window panes
And found them waiting everywhere.
I never buried childhood roads—
The ones I walked with bleeding knees.
They live inside the softest odes
And bloom like ghosts among the trees.
I never buried what she said
The night the silence broke our bed.
Her voice still echoes...
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Categories:
loss, childhood, emotions, mirror, prayer,
Form: Rhyme
UrgencyI am the magician called Urgency.
Many a person has been fooled by me.
If only they’d paused so they could see.
Their loss could have been a...
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Categories:
loss, magic, mystery, perspective,
Form: Monorhyme
Sweet Alyssum
I will weep when you whither.
Soft, purple petals dried to ash in august sun,
Sweet nectar plucked away before I can smell your honey.
Before I can taste your grace,
Hold you to my face and pour my love into your cup like affirmations
Do I hold you close to my chest as you die?
Or turn away, I...
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Categories:
loss, best friend, i love
Form: Rhyme
Simple WordA simple word –
Softly spoken,
Stilled my heart
Left me broken
A single breath –
Such destruction,
Instant death
One deduction
Goodbye.
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Categories:
loss, break up, divorce, goodbye,
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.
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