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.
Beyond Grief's Rusty Gateso harrowing, life journey from radiant light to pitch-darkness - quote by poet.
a (groaning) dread
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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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grief, horror, sad, sorrow,
Flower Chide VI, StemriseToward 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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fantasy,
Flower Chide VIII, Listening LeafBeneath 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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fantasy,
Flower Chide IV,ScentfoldThey 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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fantasy,
The WormwoodI 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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africa, age, america, bereavement,
Unscheduled DepartureI 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 earsLost 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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dark, imagery, imagination, night,
a joker's shiftIn 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 accidentalThat 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 abandonYou 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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betrayal, grief, innocence, sad,
Of Loves, Once BorneShe 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,
Categories:
anxiety, break up, first
Purpose or ObliterationI 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,