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Grief Memory Poems

These Grief Memory poems are examples of Memory poems about Grief. These are the best examples of Memory Grief poems written by international poets.


Blame
It simmers. This constant invisible, hovering 
like a wasp in the forever periphery threatening 
lightning strike yellows, sudden and unbidden. It spills
and spools, down into...

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Categories: memory, analogy,



Grieving the Shift
Time passes, conversation and music ends,
light refracts, shimmers in water, bends.
Nails grow, hair lengthens, heads turn and bones break,
stems wilt, gardens overgrow, clouds regurgitate water...

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Categories: memory, analogy,

Hopelessness is a Loyal Mistress
Hopelessness is a loyal mistress. 
Tender agonies whispered in ones ear,
twisted thoughts to forget by sunlight;
only the uneasy shadows cast doubt.
Warming embrace of past mistakes,
lovingly...

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Categories: memory, corruption, depression, grief, longing,

The Loss Of Her
I know there is simply nothing I can honestly say
To make all of the soul-wrenching pain of grief go away,
Because I too was there crying...

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Categories: memory, angst, death, death of

Premium Member A paper tree
I made a paper tree of grief and
those now gone fill up each leaf..
Their faces, their lives, the people
I hold dear, have shaped it's
branches, year...

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Categories: death, memory, tree,



Premium Member Branded
you be gone
   long   gone
   long ago, yet 
in that dark
   space of night
that knows no eyes
...

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Categories: memory, destiny, grief, loss, love,

Jack 77
I remember when I held my children for the first time

I remember when I spoke at my dad’s funeral ad libbing in a mix of...

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Categories: memory, mental health, mental

Just Beyond
He guides her hand from just beyond
With a ready black ink pen they share this bond
The words flow effortlessly as if not her own
Seems to...

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Categories: memory, father daughter, heartbroken, how

Premium Member A Flock of Startled Birds
A Flock of Startled Birds

He had sat for an hour on a long, low, flat rock,
He had checked himself over from bald patch to sock.
His...

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Categories: memory, depression, memorial, mental health,

Premium Member Undone
I was only four, 
when Blackie my dog died. 
My dad ran my best friend over, 
yes it was a horrible accident. 

 
I was...

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Categories: memory, cat, dad, heart, love,

Premium Member Precious Moments

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Categories: memory, appreciation, innocence,

Nothing lasts forever
Updated previous poem in memory of my beloved beautiful brother.


Nothing lasts forever,
I don't believe it's true,
The love we hold
For those we've lost,
Stays with us through...

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Categories: death, loss, memory, missing,

thoughts
what do you do when forever splinters and tears?
and you are left with shadows and memories
that turn to vapor in the sun
what does forever bring...

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Categories: death, life, memory,

In Loving Memory Of

Ira Earl Hudson

January 6th 1961 - December 20th 2023


VIEWING
Terry's Funeral Home 
2337 N Williams Ave, Portland, OR 97227
Jan 18th, 2024 @ 4:00pm


GRAVESIDE SERVICES
Willamette National Cemetery
11800...

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Categories: memory, angel, death, grief, heartbroken,

Premium Member Forgiveness
I have heard a hurt person say, 
if you knew what they did to me you would never forgive them. 
Hurt can run very deep...

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Categories: cry, hurt, life, memory,


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