Child Loss Poems
These Child Loss poems are examples of Loss poems about Child. These are the best examples of Loss Child poems written by international poets.
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...
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loss, child, child abuse, in
No Gentle HandsThe master cracks his whip
across the horse’s trembling flank,
pushing the beast to its limits
until the wildness snaps and the horse reacts,
a flurry of chaos beneath...
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loss, abuse, analogy, animal, anxiety,
Neatness and GodlinessEvery picture I’ve seen of you as a child,
You wear your hair in plaits.
A stern middle parting and two dark brown braids
Falling down on each...
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loss, bereavement, children, grandparents, poverty,
Matsuo Basho: English translations of Haiku about Life 1Matsuo Basho: English translations of haiku about clouds, geese, departing, empty nests and huts, lonely, loneliness, drinking alone, sake, longing, loss, death, hawks, the moon,...
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loss, culture, death, loneliness, lonely,
I Am From pt2I am from sitting in the front row church pew I never wanted to be in twice.
The genuine smiles in the photos on the memory...
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loss, death, funeral, grandmother, grandparents,
blood and inkas a child i often found myself participating in sadistic activities.
i felt my sins rotting into my body-
into my soul as-well my veins.
...
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loss, addiction, atheist, childhood, cry,
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...
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child, father, longing, loss,
Gloomy international watersLet sail this doom and gloom
Drinking gasoline with a blue lighter
In the morning head up the gangplank
The hours till I lay down is a lifetime
I’ve...
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loss, addiction, depression, father son,
An 'I've Wasted my Whole Life' Moment
Have you ever had an ‘I’ve wasted my whole life’ moment
If...
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cry, heaven, life, loss,
If everIf ever you were taken from me,
The sun would rise in mourning black,
And birds would fold their wings in shame
For mother not to bring...
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loss, fate, hope, miss you,
The Paradiddle of Being - Book Two: The BecomingVI.
We are all metric modulations
of our former selves—changing time signatures
mid-measure, learning to count
in odd meters when life refuses
to conform to 4/4 expectations
finding beauty in 7/8...
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loss, extended metaphor, fate, identity,
Who Am I NowI was your mom before i was anything else,
My name, before my plans,
Before the life i thought i’d have—
I was yours.
Now the world keeps turning,
But...
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loss, change, child, death, grief,
Lights that glow darklyI have been deceived all this while,
By all the angels cloaked in a dear disguise.
'Follow the way of light, my child, ' they all cooed,
For...
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loss, sad,
The Paradiddle of Being - Book One: The Struck WorldI.
In the beginning was the Single Stroke Roll—
left-right, left-right, the primordial heartbeat
of existence itself, each alternation a binary choice
between being and non-being, the eternal paradiddle
of...
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childhood, identity, introspection, loss,
Why Your Cities Burn, Part III...Gobayth’s mind was nearly crushed,
this was his life now, it appeared,
and all sorts of depressing thoughts
flooded his mind that first half-year.
Was this what life was...
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loss, anger, conflict, dark, evil,