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People Loss Poems

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

Distance

I'd like to say I feel so close to you
But the distance between us would beg to differ
I wish it was as simple as a...

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Categories: loss, absence,

Blame

Quote: A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. By John Burroughs


Life has many ups...

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Categories: loss, child, hurt, life, people,

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,

For Them

When people comment on my strength 
The thing that they don’t see
Is if I’d had a choice
I’d have you here with me 

They asked me...

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Categories: loss, death, grief, i miss

The Sun is Shining Again

The sun is shining in the east with petals opening bright, spreading its fragrance into the light and an epiphany of hope resting on the...

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Categories: loss, america, body, change, community,

Neither Here Nor There

Everyone laughs and everyone cries,
But then when it's time to say their goodbyes,
Nobody wants to nobody’s ready.
Nobody told them they’d have to already.
Come on now,...

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Categories: loss, 8th grade, absence, fear,

Hoping an End

Woke up amidst the screaming cries, dared to stare through the window
Eyes couldn't believe a thousand corpses lying, hands couldn't recognize the skulls
The day before...

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Categories: loss, abuse, america, community, cry,

Father and Sun, Again

When the door's open, like a lady in waiting I tip my hat as she beamingly frets.
As I glimpse into the way she brings, the...

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Categories: loss, appreciation, blessing, day, father

Interview With A Grain of Sand

Me: How did you start out?
Sand: I was born a rock. About 5 inches round and weighting
about a six pounds.

 
Me: Now did you become...

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Categories: loss, feelings, love, sea, sun,

One Day Wonders

The World's 'One Day Wonders,' 'the' is borrowed
it's an article, they are transmitting 
a way of thinking, theirs--much rather showed
--be their forte. What's that word,...

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Categories: loss, allusion, analogy, betrayal, change,

Bye Bye Fat Me

I can’t believe it’s really me
Waist to head, I’m a Christmas tree
From this fat, I’ll never be free
A healthy life I’ll never see

I gained a...

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Categories: loss, addiction, body, change, food,

I Wish I Had

I have been forced,
to love people I hate.
I wish I had,
only loving people around me.
My ego has been cut,
cut with a very sharp knife many...

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Categories: loss, hate, love, people, smile,

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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Categories: emotions, feelings, loss, missing,

On A Bad Day



Journey Journal Page
ON A BAD DAY
By Leon Enriquez


To know the way
True purpose seek
As truth now plays
When vision peaks


Pique your own think
In fruitage ripe
The right verge...

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Categories: angst, loss, sorrow,