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Distraught
* I just found out my friend I knew 30* years died a horrific death. I am distraught,, So if I don't write or answer for now, this is why....
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Categories:
loss,
Form: Free verse
Lost Flight
I left the nest one night,
Fell out!
My very first flight.
Soared and twisted in the air,
Swinging wings,
I beat the air!
Scavengers saw me...
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Categories:
12th grade, endurance, loss,
Form: Free verse
Encaged and EnragedShe lived in a castle, isolated,
Time flew slow, gruelling and full of hatred,
The crown lay broken on the floor,
Shattered, scattered, one piece no more.
Royal duties thrown away, Pirates life, plundering, stealing,
But not knowing the tight,...
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Categories:
business, emotions, loss, love,
Form: Rhyme
Swan SongShe trawled the woods to find her lost heart
Out of view and hidden deep underground
Still beating, wrapped in muddied cloth
The Queen was once more born
But returned to find the moon...
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Categories:
betrayal, hurt, leadership, loss,
Form: Free verse
Our Nile
"Do not stand by my grave and weep", they said.
Here's something she would have said instead.
"Hey, smile, all of your smiles are beautiful."
Hers was more than that- contagious- magical.
She would have placed some affirmatives,
Lifted up...
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Categories:
loss, angel, cry, extended metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
The Value of Reading
"The Value of Reading"
messages impressed
upon the secret keepers.
when is late too late?
to divulge the truth?
"I know this is a shock"
arrives far too late
when it is anticipated
by the writer pundit
keeping tabs
on runnaway horses
trained...
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Categories:
betrayal, books, death, loss,
Form: Narrative
Sisters
I tried to write a poem about you
l couldn’t….tears clouded my eyes
I felt that terrible sorrowful sinking feeling
I just cried …..
So many years missing you
Still wishing you were here
Time has eased my pain and...
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Categories:
cancer, loss, sister,
Form: Rhyme
Disorientation
Themed distractions, affairs a boulevard,
as elbowed are divided from their minds.
Aloof, queues succeed a ship calling card,
as untrained get on, moons all exit signs.
The General Slocum dressed to the nines,
as churchgoers now passengers adorned.
Petite girls,...
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Categories:
loss, angst, anxiety, confusion, death,
Form: Sonnet
Search For Tomorrow
On the brittle bank of a placid river full of settled silt,
with bricks and mortar of my labor a house I’ve built.
I make it a home in the sunny days with utmost care,
a happy home...
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Categories:
analogy, angst, hope, loss,
Form: Rhyme
FadingThe memories seem to gradually slip away,
His footprints seem to slowly erase,
My journey through life's maze,
It seems to have clouded my memories of him.
Indeed time could rewrite one’s story,
Indeed time...
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Categories:
death, father, loss,
Form: Free verse
AbsentiaCome once more and be my light
Oh lover who abandoned me
End this darkness of the night
Once I knew your radiance bright
And dwelt in your embrace
Come once more and be my light...
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Categories:
loss, absence, dark, light, longing,
Form: Villanelle
It Happened On A Misty MorningThe passage of time has not changed anything
Neither has it erased all that has been
I go down memory lane
I'm swathed by loss and pain
September 24, 2023....
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Categories:
loss, memorial day, pain,
Form: Verse
The Blasts Never Last
He made his first million fast
Now all his blasts in the past
No spending plan
No discipline ~
The money never lasts...
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Categories:
loss, money,
Form: Rhyme
WHENEVER YOU'RE READYwhen you walk through and reshaping melts the binding glue
nothing in my heart will remember you
not the hardest blow to my soul, the grief of my newfound total
you'll have to imprint again
slide under my...
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Categories:
loss, 11th grade, birth, death,
Form: Free verse
AprilI trod a path made concrete
By patience and virtue
Nothing gets past the belly of this beast,
That I could never subdue
I wrestle with veins and arteries that choke
Pour my cocktail over gurgling acids that flow
Slide down...
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Categories:
anxiety, april, loss,
Form: Free verse
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?
Poems Related to Loss
debt, disaster, accident, fall, damage, failure, cost, defeat, trouble, injury, catastrophe, casualty, destruction, undoing, harm, misadventure, dispossession, mishap, deficiency, want, need, death, shrinkage, ruin, privation