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History Loss Poems

These History Loss poems are examples of Loss poems about History. These are the best examples of Loss History poems written by international poets.


AFTER THE FLOOD
AFTER THE FLOOD

After the flood has subsided
With insurance claims made
Pertaining to the destruction
There’s all the reconstruction
The memories will never fade
And reluctant moves decided

Now leaving a...

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Categories: loss,



Lost Works, Part II
......The loss of Alexandria,
the burning of Ashburnham House,
the Grand Library of Baghdad
which the Mongolians tore down,
the countless Aztec codices
that the conquistadors all burned...
just thinking of...

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Categories: books, history, loss, lost,

Lost Works, Part I
I was reading Aristotle,
because I am just weird like that,
and as I poured through ancient words
I was presented with the fact
that what I read from...

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Categories: books, history, loss, lost,

Premium Member I'm Not in Kansas Anymore
(Mimic the song..."If I Only Had A Brain" by the Scarecrow from The Wizard of Oz)

I could be so independent

So lavish and resplendent

Just a player...

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Categories: angst, loss, memory,

Premium Member Bittersweet Cup Of Tea
I may not be everyone's cup of tea
That I never invited anyone around to try
If you ever had the chance to meet me

You may not...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: emotions, feelings, loss, missing,



Numbered
I am not the nightlight, nor am I the monster under my bed that my father would tell me to fear. I never feared the...

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Categories: loss, angst, child abuse, grandfather,

Premium Member How Many In The Four Tops?
I may be gormless
And it may be true
But just how many were there In the band?
I forgot
So I'm asking you?

Their beautiful music is a gift...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: loss, appreciation, celebration, celebrity, class,

Behind Winter Minichu
Winter don for the mystery—
Of happenstance now frozen in;
That shakes itself from Her history,

The pace of whirling snowy flakes,
In the night's long, long pass—
The next...

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© Paige Hind  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: loss, dark, deep, environment, introspection,

Premium Member Lost Art

There was a time
when we waited eagerly
for the mailman -
when mail deliveries 
            had...

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Categories: loss, nostalgia, writing,

History in a shelf
Roars of dark shadows covered through the dusty iron blocks, raining down in tunes on the souls of the districts. The spot of a thousand...

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Categories: loss, bereavement, birth, children, hurt,

My Love Has Tired Me of My Life
Mahammad Fuzuli (1494-1556)

Mahammad Fuzuli, the poet-philosopher, is one of the founders of the divan genre in the history of Azerbaijani and Turkish literature. He wrote...

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Categories: loss, art, destiny, dream, inspirational,

Premium Member I Am Supposed To Be a Human Being
I had a happy childhood at first
Yeah I played with dolls to a tragic
Extent. It was a dream of some
Type of female existence.  I...

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Categories: loss, age, best friend, black

Has It Been That Long Ago
Has it been that long ago?
I remember as if it was only yesterday,
But one’s mind does play tricks on us as we all know.
It was...

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Categories: history, loss, political,

Premium Member Message From a Disabled Vet

Was sitting in my wheelchair in my den,
My son, playing with trucks on the floor.
The smell of pot roast wafting from the 
kitchen door.
I thought...

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Categories: america, inspirational, loss,

Premium Member The Black Darkness In My Soul
My pure heart and,
The kindness in my soul,
It has been destroyed, and it's broken.
You took that from me.
One fleeting moment in history,
One glimpse of time,
Like...

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Categories: loss, betrayal, courage, encouraging, evil,


Book: Reflection on the Important Things