Because I Would Not Stop for Death: A Homage to Emily Dickinsonafter Because I could not stop for Death, by Emily Dickinson
Because I would not stop for Death,
he kindly stopped for me.
A wilted bouquet in one hand—
a reminder of life's mortality.
We began to walk—he knew no haste—
side by side, as we always were.
In silence, no sympathies were spoken,
as he knew I often preferred.
We passed the house...
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Categories:
loss, bereavement, death, grief, journey,
Form: Quatrain
UsBefore we go our separate ways
We smile and say good night
You sang me through the midnight haze
And in the morning light
I feel another gentle kiss
I see you smile and vape
That’s how it was, how it still is
Saved on the record tape
But it’s a different story now
When two of us are one
You are within me, undertow
So...
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Categories:
longing, loss, lost, love,
Form: Rhyme
Jaun Elia English Translations IIThese are English translations of Urdu poems by Jaun Elia with themes of solitude, loneliness, alienation, love, life, death and loss.
When you come, you will find me lost,
for in my solitude there are dreams, nothing else.
You desire to decorate my room,
but in my room there are books, nothing else.
These tyrannical books have done me a...
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Categories:
dream, life, loneliness, loss,
Form: Free verse
PHONE CALL FROM HEAVENI sit and wonder in my backyard
About you at the graveyard
I'm always waiting for that phone call from you
But it just takes me back from all the hell you went through
I guess for the rest of my life I will be lonely
But in the end, you were my only
Sometimes I feel the pain I have...
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Categories:
loss, faith, feelings, god, heaven,
Form: Free verse
This Damn SongAll I want in this whole world is someone to love,
Someone to hold, to cherish, to dream of.
All I need is someone to comfort me—
To stand by my side, to help set me free.
Someone to talk to, to whisper things to,
Someone, my dear… someone like you.
Someone who'll love me, and I’ll love them back,
Someone who’s...
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Categories:
loss, emotions, heartbreak, heartbroken, lonely,
Form: Lyric
Still the Dust Singsafter ‘The waste Land’, by T.S. Eliot
I met a woman on a glitching screen,
her face a whisk of pixels and prayer.
She spoke of shattered systems and survived code,
“The cloud remembers everything,” she said, "but forgets what matters.”
A rat hurried through my feed at dawn,
past memes and headlines, each a kind...
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Categories:
april, endurance, loss, recovery
Form: Lyric
A turning world awayA turning world away
Daily I will pray...
for strength to face, another day
Tomorrow's a turning world away
I can't think about it now...
Your memory's forever burned in my mind...
Unchanged with passing time
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Categories:
loss, absence, death of a
Form: Rhyme
The Silence Of Your VoiceThe Silence Of Your Voice
No new day have I seen since you went away, like trying to empty the oceans with a spoon, tears fall in the hole left so deep in my soul.
Words spoken spin like a vortex never leaving always hurting, promises of a life together...
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Categories:
loss, angst, death of a
Form: Free verse
In the MorningWhen I wake up in the morning
I continue to lie down
Over there a rain keeps falling
Sounds of cars hiss all around
Through the curtains morning’s better
Motionless I watch its glow
Rainy morning comes like letter
With no content worth to show
Morning headlines make me sad
Instant coffee turns me on
Off I go for wine and...
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Categories:
loss, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Mendin FencesI mend fence for a living,
but I ain’t fixed the one that matters.
The wire stretches out like a scar across this land,
and most days, my hands don’t feel like mine anymore...
callused, cracked,
barbed wire bit deep across the knuckles,
rosebush caught me reachin
where I shouldn’t’ve.
Still...
none of it hurts like the hollowness in my chest
where my little girl...
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Categories:
child, father, longing, loss,
Form: Free verse
In Stars Above
A dress, tangerine fading into sunflower.
We stand together,
rooftop of a white concrete building.
Higher than clouds, further than moon—
she looks down, my eyes follow.
Our gazes collide when they
fall onto the mist pooling into swirls.
I couldn't help but stare, on her porcelain cheeks,
something sparkles—tears, but I cannot tell
if they're from joy or devastation.
I want to hold her—
In...
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Categories:
art, death, fire, loss,
Form: Free verse
IlluminationI escape to a shiny lake
where waters are calmer,
my mistakes are not raked
and the nights are warmer.
Without sting rays
and cold-ness of days,
This town is deserted
buildings flood vacancies
I dream of flirtation
and of illumination,
so much for singularity,
bringing one to peace.
Thoughts are floating
like ashes in the summer.
I begin playing,
A lost & found harmonica....
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Categories:
loss, dream, introspection, loneliness, lonely,
Form: Rhyme
Forever And Always, For All EternityInfinite love
Has come to an end
The white dove?
Its neck has a bend
What was promised forever
Did not last
Continued for never
And came in last
Eight months
To be continued
Eight months
You promised no issue
You promised forever
You promised always
You promised to never
But you did anyways
I cannot be mad
I could not do that to you
But boy am I sad
To watch what we...
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Categories:
crush, cry, loss, love
Form: Rhyme
My Father's Field and StreamI woke up this morning from a dream.
On the coffee table, I saw a magazine -
my father's Field and Stream,
and I remembered how he wanted to take me to a place
he went with his own father
in an earlier time and space,
to nature's rugged, wild Elysian fields,
where boys and men could bond,
like a...
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Categories:
father son, introspection, loss,
Form: Rhyme
AcceptanceI haven’t truly lived until now.
I have been locked away for so long
In a small room in a place that was never my home.
Home is where you feel safe.
My freedom without judgment is where I feel most safe, maybe that’s home.
That’s how I feel now.
Full throttle and no chain...
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Categories:
break up, 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
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Poems Related to Loss
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