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Mournings Poems - Poems about Mournings

NUMBERS
...Let's speak of numbers. I’m a Kenyan 2.0, With an ID to prove. I own the code—254, Been here since I was 0. Gen Z did awaken, Learning the art in math— The topic on tax, And the story of Za......

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Categories: mournings, africa, poems, political,
Form: Concrete
Epiphany
...Reflecting its neighbourhood, The lake water shone yellow. Resembling a synchronisation of saturation With the setting sun. Seizing green colour of the grasses The sun painted them gold. En......

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Categories: mournings, age, death, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Are We Safer Now
...Joy in mourning opens this new eye day. Am I OK? Healthy? Compromised yet survive able air inhaling "Death, tonight, or some tomorrow, my life's inevitable closed, no longer curious,......

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Categories: mournings, dark, death, health, integrity,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
The Wife's Lament
..."The Wife's Lament" or "The Wife's Complaint" is an Old English/Anglo Saxon poem found in the Exeter Book, which has been dated to 960-990 AD, making it the oldest English poetry anthology. "The Wife......

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Categories: mournings, husband, lost love, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Used To Be
... Can I allay man's acceptance of poverty which was not a dire circumstance before? On those past days of summer the stale from bread crumbs fell onto the lidless eyes of each child, woman on th......

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Categories: mournings, poverty,
Form: Prose Poetry



In the Event
...in the event in the event that i dont wake up tomorrow please hold your tears and your sorrow for i am finally free no more pain inside of me no more unexplained symptoms or signs or wavering ......

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Categories: mournings, caregiving, death, goodbye, memorial,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member 8 Little Egypts
...Something strange and unexplainable comes this way, this way, it comes to us sly and fast, some say, perhaps, it has already arrived, it walks unseen, in the midst of all, of us we go a......

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Categories: mournings, easter, humanity, words,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Marigolds'
...So as one begins walking, is there nowhere left to go? To carry-on is the Marigolds' only reason found to grow Red and orange incredible the closer that they glow Cornucopias of shapes the......

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Categories: mournings, death, death of a
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Sunbeams
...As the sun's beams of light pierce through this solemn morning's clouds, My own heart's mournings are echoing beyond the atmosphere's shrouds Into the vastest void we call space, away from Earth's ......

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Categories: mournings, grief, imagery, light, sky,
Form: Sijo
Medieval Poems Iii
...Medieval Poems Deor's Lament (Anglo Saxon poem, circa 10th century AD) loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Weland knew the agony of exile. That indomitable smith was wrac......

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Categories: mournings, england, grief, poems, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
After Midnight
...my mournings come alive when she enters deep inside my heart, my passion, my mind time it travels far without daylight burning moments as they move on by I see her soot as ......

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Categories: mournings, love,
Form: Free verse
Liberia Bleed In Tears
...Liberia bleed in tears She bleeds at the ascension of evil sons of the soil to higher offices, In the name of development squandering and laundering her wealth are but a few causes of her unend......

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Categories: mournings, betrayal, corruption, leadership, patriotic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Gray Mournings
...Lace hankie tucked inside her jacket sleeve Hard candy filled the tin beside Mom’s purse Gray mournings, nature’s gifts for those who grieve At times when it seems nothing could be worse So......

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Categories: mournings, grief,
Form: Sonnet
Free Us
...Free as the independent woman that raised us Don’t believe in every story Allegories & fables Fast for mournings ,Now I’m unplugged from the matrix I once seen great things come to me When I’......

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Categories: mournings, adventure, anxiety, arabic, black
Form: Free verse
A Solace In Solitude - Loneliness Contest
...Like the moving clouds my life runs, Not knowing when to stop, saturate and shower, Carrying the vapours of worry my heart weighs heavy, Crossing the peak I saturate and cry, Sometimes I squall, ......

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Categories: mournings, loneliness,
Form: Free verse

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