Loss Poems | Examples of Loss Poetry

It’s nothing but desert for kilometers, nothing as far as you can see. Not even the sparse brush to keep you company Wondering further and further Wondering if it was all for not Hours turn to days Then slowly days...Read the rest...

When the world does the 24 hours again, Without anyone remembering I am alive, My little fire of an orange cat will crawl onto me – reach out and press my face with his paw, He then kisses...Read the rest...

Hello, allow me to introduce myself. I wish my name was free, free as in not physically and mentally restrained. Sort of like how animals in the jungle can’t be tamed and how birds in the...Read the rest...

Somewhere on the North York Moor Pedal almost through the floor Engine soon began to roar Eighty miles per hour for sure Death comes quick on the A64......Read the rest...

The body had fatigue. the heart Black and blind with fever. The little crow cried as he passed. The voice watched strength and health end. Nightmare, awakened meaning, in horror. My eyes stooped as pleasant days grey....Read the rest...

I have grown tired of the worship of You- can you lose faith in a god that you created? I used to pray and beg and grovel for just a sliver of Your grace, but my knees are...Read the rest...

The silent woman watches, Shifting in the cold. Holding coffee in hand, Watching over the land. Swiftly through the falling leaves, Laying...Read the rest...

A beaches sand of tears Weeps the tide of my heart Harrowed, choking breaths It comes for me again Made of shadow Squeezing radiant beneath my ribs Heavier than the floor Locked in my cage Both prisoner and jailer Fumbling with the...Read the rest...

~ for Mom ~ you … kiss my hand three times as tender as a thistle, borne ‘my angel’ you whisper, as I kiss yours - skin as thin as paper careworn by the million things you have done for me, but...Read the rest...

DEATH Distant bird calls echoed in the silent hills, Evening’s crimson light illuminates the fields, A small child dances under the autumn moon. The world lives on with the dawning of each day. How is it that the pain is...Read the rest...

A greenback saved is a greenback earned Make it your motto you’ll never get burned ...Read the rest...

My inner child cries out, a voice I buried deep. For years, I looked away, her pain ignored, just as I was - left alone in the quiet, where no one answered. She’s been screaming, her anguish constant, but I kept moving, as if distance...Read the rest...

The heaviness of heart lifts. I want it gone, but I hold it tighter still. Crashing through me, knocking me down, picking me up. It needs to go, it has to. Lost to love, feeling our hearts...Read the rest...

At a loss for words Well not exactly Words are plentiful Thoughts a lesser commodity Dust covered, wall flowers Resigned to their fate Thoughtless Well not exactly Thoughts think About what other thoughts Are thinking Thoughts are like a masquerade ball Concealing themselves In duplicitous deception Masked mayhem Dancing alone Words...Read the rest...

A prolonged loud silence Shattering my belief Baffling my spirit Summoning an inevitable end Of what we had between us Shunning my existence Severing the bond that tied us The heart lies bruised by the callous attitude And...Read the rest...