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Grief Narrative Poems

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


Premium Member Beyond Grief's Rusty Gate
so harrowing, life journey from radiant light to pitch-darkness - quote by poet.

 a (groaning) dread 
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Categories: birth, confusion, death, grief,



Bitterness now worshipped as religion
In Ankara and Moscow,
the ground is crimson red ~
a carpet spread on fields once green.
Life’s fluid, like red gold,
flows as scarlet runoffs into Ottoman rivers...

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Categories: grief, horror, sad, sorrow,

Flower Chide VI, Stemrise
Toward Scent fold’s vale they cleaved the green,
Where wind runs thick with things unseen.
“Is it justice you seek or just her place?”
Lotus said, his voice...

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Categories: fantasy,

Flower Chide VIII, Listening Leaf
Beneath the Nefaryes timeless, tangled roots.
where dreamscents rot and anger hoots,
Pokenose stirs with a spore-slick grin
not to charm, but to drag you in.

"You reek of...

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Categories: fantasy,

Flower Chide IV,Scentfold
They all circled Lotus, voices steeped in fret,
Which no bloom or blade had spoken yet.
“She’s not of the ring,” they said without sway,
“And what grows...

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Categories: fantasy,



The Wormwood
I have heard of it before, but I never knew what it was until I walk through the door, I thought it was a wood...

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Categories: africa, age, america, bereavement,

Premium Member Unscheduled Departure
I had not woken from sleep.
Feeling weightlessness, I peeked,
observing my body laid decease.
Slowly arisen to uncalmly peace,
realizing that I had passed in sleep.
Abnormal emotions so...

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Categories: death, faith, family, goodbye,

Echo in deaf ears
Lost deep in an echo chamber~
where I talked and my eardrums beat ceaselessly,
ricocheting voices of ghosts masked in agony,
tiptoeing faintly,
their feet blurred by the hallucinations...

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Categories: dark, imagery, imagination, night,

a joker's shift
In colors he bloomed, with a big red nose,
He chose the job where laughter grows.

There he stood in rounded boots,
With a grin of mischief and...

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Categories: character, deep, extended metaphor,

The accident was accidental
That day on Earth was filled with fun,
The weather was mild and clement.
The sun beamed down with gentle grace,
Cool air had just chased off the...

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Categories: angel, death, drink, fire,

Silent screams of abandon
You came into my life~
just before the ink dried...
in my husband's condolences register.
You knew I was grieving, 
vulnerable, 
trying to hold my children’s lives together...

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Categories: betrayal, grief, innocence, sad,

Premium Member Of Loves, Once Borne
She was weaving a silken tapestry with long silver threads 
and golden memories from her life that hadn't yet faded
Drizzles of sorrow fell with every...

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Categories: age, poetess, sorrow,

Premium Member Rubicon Crossing

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Categories: anxiety, break up, first

Premium Member Purpose or Obliteration
I dreamed I was inside a bulb—
a cathedral of filament and glass—
not dead
not born…..
but shumming**.

Glass walls curved like time
sealed but translucent

my fingers curled around voltage
like...

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Categories: identity, imagination, introspection, philosophy,

My Village - Monsoon Flood
The skies now dark with swollen grief,
Rain lashes roofs beyond belief.
The monsoon comes not soft, but roaring seas,
It spares no home and trees, nor man,...

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Categories: anxiety, depression, emotions, environment,


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