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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.

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Categories: giving, imagination, loss, love,
Three Fine, Well-Tended Graves, Part II by David Welch 
...It was early fall when the trouble came
to the Sperry’s and the Circle-S Ranch,
a dozen bandits came riding in hard,
shooting their guns in an entrance...

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Categories: loss, courage, family, growth, hero,

Premium MemberThe Loss of Innocense by John Gondolf 
As I was walking late one night along a downtown street
I came upon a sad, sad sight that led to hope’s deplete.

The painted ladies paced...

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Categories: loss, growing up, innocence, sad,
ABIKU by Damilola Muyideen 
ÀBÍKÚ

                   Àbíkú, 
    This...

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Categories: death, depression, loss, mother,
The Captain by roger turner 
He sat all alone, drinking jim beam and coke

Looking out as the waves crashed ashore

He kept to himself, drinking jim beam and coke

As the storm...

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Categories: loss, america, bereavement, child, dad,
The Price of a Normal Life, Part III by David Welch 
Bud’s eyes went wide, and he tried to speak,
But the older man’s stare shut him down.
“Let me tell you, vagrant with no folks,
the words that...

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Categories: loss, adventure, conflict, family, growth,
A Man in pain by Tawanda Muzavazi 
Sometimes I feel like giving up
Because people have already given up on me.
Looking inward for hope.
Eyeing outward for reassurance.
Maybe my eyes cannot see.
I see no...

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Categories: loss, heartbreak, i miss you,
The World in The Looking Glass by Jaycee Graffius 
There was a time 
When I was alone
And silence filled my house
It covered the world beyond my house in a mist
I couldn’t tell what lay...

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Categories: loss, i miss you, innocence,
No Place Left To Roam by David Welch 
When I was a small child
I would always be outside,
Must have blazed a hundred paths
Just to see what I could find.
Then they put me in...

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Categories: conflict, freedom, heartbreak, loss,
The Taking of a Hero's Wife, Part II by David Welch 
The things they screamed at poor Laura
enraged Owen, and made his blood boil,
to harass a widow who’d lost everything…
Was there nothing left they would not...

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Categories: bereavement, courage, loss, love,
Premium MemberBroken hearted child by Heidi Sands 
Broken Hearted Child

You did your best, while you could
Until it ended like a knife cutting sharp
I was taken from you where I stood
Memories played a...

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Categories: father, grief, loss,
Premium MemberAbuse by Lansell Taudevin 

You weep without tears for a son now long gone. 
But that is a lie.
Tears flow without being summoned,
When you don’t expect them.
Recalling a laugh,
or...

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Categories: loss, anger, child abuse, children,
Fancy that by T.I.R.O. JY 
Fancy that?
You didn’t think?
Fancy that?
You didn’t care?

Years alone with only you to feed my solitude of despair
Years alone, in my mind planning your hurt -...

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Categories: loss, cry, dark, death, irony,
Premium MemberA mothers love by Melissa Tracy 
One shouldn't be so quick to roll off their tongue words of disparage
Matters of the heart should never be taken lightly such as a miscarriage
Grief...

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Categories: grief, loss, love,
Eighteen Years Ago -On Abortion by PJ Gongora 
A plot I want to tell in a poem
About a girl age eighteen who has dreamed
Of going abroad to increase the coin
That she already have...

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Categories: loss, abortion, child, cry, fear,
A people betrayed by Rajarshi Keshari 
You dont have to be moved, 
we are already in a revolution
A different kind, one where futures are decided on couches in front of the...

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Categories: anger, angst, loss, political,
The Man That He Once Was, Part II by David Welch 
...For four years he wandered, a human scourge,
throwing in with the worst type of dregs.
He robbed from so many without a thought,
and when he slept,...

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Categories: loss, anger, character, faith, hurt,
The Loss of a Child by Michael McCarthy 
There are certain things in life which are so hard to bear,
And to lose a much-loved child is a parent’s worst nightmare.
With Nature’s rules turned...

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Categories: bereavement, child, heartbroken, loss,
Pray by Abbi Smith 
I am told to stay quiet
I am expected to hide
But how can I do that
When there's a pedophile by your child's side?

He sat there with...

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Categories: anger, freedom, loss, recovery
Premium MemberDream Sustained Friendship by CayCay Jennings 
Awake, I cannot escape my love’s depth for you.
Awake, I cannot deny my loathing towards you.
Confusion and missing settle-stay in my pain’s cliché.
Thoughts of you...

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Categories: loss, confusion, dream, friend, friendship,