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Mother Loss Poems

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


The Ones Not Forgotten
So many names on the page today, so many more gone— vanished into silence.

Does the world still care? I know they do.

I hope they do.

Children...

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Categories: loss, 10th grade, 8th grade,



Premium Member evanesce
( for Mom )

I’ll treasure dear while growing old
          I clasped your hand til it waxed...

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Categories: analogy, death, introspection, loss,

Roadkill
I am a roadkill.

I had almost crossed the road when a bike hit me. I fell and he drove over my face before I realized...

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Categories: loss, absence, angst, animal, life,

More I try, more I cry
In just a day,
I lost my father, my mum,
and my only two siblings,
I became the only member of my family:
  my own father,
 ...

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Categories: loss, depression, extended metaphor, grief,

The sound of breaking
The sound of breaking is late.
Thunder shatters gray clouds after 
lightning strikes the damp soil. 
When pieces of sky pierce flesh, 
the scream is slow...

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Categories: blue, light, loneliness, loss,



Neatness and Godliness
Every 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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Categories: loss, bereavement, children, grandparents, poverty,

Premium Member When The Bed Burns
Tongues of solar flare  writhe  in combat kiss
—flame-throwers unleashed
iron words  h a m m e r e d  in fire ...

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Categories: conflict, fire, loss, love,

one day
My mind is a raging storm
Of never ending thoughts
And constant 'what if's
That chase away dreams
And plague the mind.

Not a day goes by
That you are never...

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Categories: absence, feelings, grief, loss,

Premium Member The Consequences of Stealing
When you steal, it’s more than an object you take—  
You sever a thread in the soul you forsake.  
That bracelet? A gift...

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Categories: loss, anger, betrayal, character, conflict,

Premium Member Things Lost Somewhere in This House
Things Missing Somewhere in This House
My birth bertificate…
A box of needed, new bank checks…
Both of our wedding rings…
My Waterman fountain pen…
After 4 decades, at least...

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Categories: family, heart, jesus, loss,

When Little Boys Fall in Love
*A Meditation on Growing Up*

## I. [Age 6] — First Light

Your fingernails, chewed down to pink,
sort bottle caps by rust and shine.
I offer you my...

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Categories: loss, boy, girlfriend,

Premium Member If ever
If 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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Categories: loss, fate, hope, miss you,

My Sunflower
She flickers in the glass—
a glitch of golden déjà vu, 
The paint strokes—bright, wild yellow,
but no warmth leak through.

I sometimes reach
for her dimming leaves
that hum...

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Categories: loss, dream, memory, mental health,

Premium Member The Paradiddle of Being - Book Two: The Becoming
VI.

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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Categories: loss, extended metaphor, fate, identity,

Who Am I Now
I 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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Categories: loss, change, child, death, grief,


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