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Mourning Poems - Poems about Mourning

Mourning Poems - Examples of all types of poems about mourning to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for mourning.
Jamais Vu
...Jamais Vu ~ "The feeling of being unfamiliar with something that is familiar. The opposite of deja vu." These days, life is shroud in a fog so vivid I’m forgetting what it was like before I’m fe......Read the rest...
Categories: mourning, allusion, growth, introspection, journey,
Form: Rhyme



Another Midnight Massacre
...All through wee hours of the morning Laminga wail their missing persons, mourning And the track road leading into Amurum forest Stained with droplets of blood down the terraced Searching into sun......Read the rest...
Categories: mourning, violence, war,
Form: Epic
Under the tattered cloak of the past night
...Under the tattered cloak of the past night, I awoke as a traveler in the shadow of a compassless vessel, Navigating the black river of an unknown destiny. And behold, I suddenly got lost In a cho......Read the rest...
Categories: mourning, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member leau de la vie
... I’m … (thus told) oft’ purveyor of a pen drowning in the anguish of the heart … bulletin: love - not always love love - always pain always - all ways … wherever, whatever, WHOever the ......Read the rest...
Categories: mourning, analogy, appreciation, wisdom, writing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Because He Lives
...When the past tears apart the courageous, leaving… Bloodstained bodies – trembling tears, silence, Nightmares, grief and no reassurance or relief, In the distance, so much disbelief, where......Read the rest...
Categories: mourning, appreciation, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Free verse



Just One More Turn
...To break a man's life down into digits, to numbers, might seem strange to you; distant, or heartless, or just odd. But that was just our way; we'd both been dubbed 'robot' at one time or anot......Read the rest...
Categories: mourning, death, death of a
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Charmed Meadows
... When dawn drifts into charmed meadows enchantment fades with the shadows, drinking perfume from the night's air, stirring fragrance that lingers there. Faintest mist sprinkles wild gr......Read the rest...
Categories: mourning, celebration, fairy, fantasy, magic,
Form: Quatern
Premium Member Oh Lord, As I Lay Down To Sleep
... Fear not of the undiscovered journey - the souls’s compass will show you the way ~ the poet When the curtain finally falls and angel’s soft chimed vo......Read the rest...
Categories: mourning, heaven, spiritual,
Form: Kyrielle
Want To Sell
...I want to sell my ego Who will be the buyer? I want to sell my hatred I want to sell my hypocrisy, Want to sell my bigotry, Want to sell revengeful trend Who will be the buyer? I want to ......Read the rest...
Categories: mourning, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sliders
... "Sliders" 500 clicks down, was code phrase for battle ships gone all depth charge. The deeper you go down that black-holed sink, the more you understand in your oxygen deprived brain,......Read the rest...
Categories: mourning, satire,
Form: Narrative
Are You Mourning, Dove?
...Smiling in the street while it thunders, today is the day I let my mind go, I turn my cap inside out, climb up the trees to look below. Fill my pants with leaves and bark, my heart fil......Read the rest...
Categories: mourning, humor,
Form: Rhyme
recognizin’ you, realizing somethin’ more
...Deliberately recognizing the sun against the moonbeams I see your eyes gleam and your happiness screams Into my eager ears over the years and I’m tension-whelmed with the tears I shed Hanging at t......Read the rest...
Categories: mourning, angst, emotions, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Echoes of Sorrow mourning the Loss of Innocence
...It grieves me to witness our youth's demise, Each day, each hour, another life unties. Daughters, sons, announced dead, bereft, In a world where cruelty has left. What have we done to merit suc......Read the rest...
Categories: mourning, anger, anxiety, death, emotions,
Form: I do not know?
RIP Junior Pope
...R.I.P JUNIOR POPE ~~~~~~~~~ In sombre silence & mournful melody, A threnody for one who passed on sadly, Who lost his life without a life jacket, Crashed without precaution on a speedboat.4 ......Read the rest...
Categories: mourning, 1st grade,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member The Cloudy Bookshelf
...When that storm arrived, the entire congregation in genuflection knelt before Her poetic prayers, they saw themselves shining, eventually, in Her reflection scandalously quiet like per......Read the rest...
Categories: mourning, i am, muse, mystery,
Form: Free verse

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