Loss Narrative Poems
These Loss Narrative poems are examples of Narrative poems about Loss. These are the best examples of Narrative Loss poems written by international poets.
Daughter of Zion II
by LIde Sangtam
Lord, let Gog mourn in the Mountains of Israel,
Let is cry echo through the valley of Medina,
And through the mountains of Ararat.
From the lands of...
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bible, christian, jesus, jewish,
In Honor Of Her Brother, Part II
by David Welch
...For a year they lived and were not bothered,
began to question what it was they’d heard,
but one careless night, though the love was sublime,
Miriam got...
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conflict, dark, farm, fear,
In Honor Of Her Brother, Part I
by David Welch
Miriam Colrick and her husband Brad,
tired of dank cities, crumbling and bad,
moved to New Hampshire, bought themselves a farm,
a place they could raise children without...
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conflict, dark, farm, fear,
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conflict, men, music, power,
Feeling the Fear
by Freddie Robinson Jr.
I can feel the walls closing in ...
I’m so afraid
of the pulmonary crumbling
The glass ceiling is falling,
shattered expectations of a jagged relation
pierces my Peter Parker...
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heartbroken, loss, lost love,
Haunting The Ghost
by David Welch
I’ve been haunting this old gothic
since nineteen eighty,
when I died from a brain tumor
at the age of sixty-three.
I cannot leave this antique home,
I am well-bound...
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death, forgiveness, heaven, house,
The Gun-hand's Revenge, Part IV
by David Welch
IV.
The bandits jolted as slugs struck home hard,
only one was able to shoot back,
Meredith’s horse reared, and tossed her off,
she slammed to the ground and...
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Cowboy
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narrative, adventure, history, hurt, judgement,
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narrative, adventure, history, hurt, judgement,
The Gun-hand's Revenge, Part II
by David Welch
II.
In the week that followed that cold, hard scene,
Reno settled in and got down to work,
he did tie up loose ends for the estate,
but mostly...
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narrative, adventure, history, hurt, judgement,
The Gun-hand's Revenge, Part I
by David Welch
I.
When Sullivan ‘Reno’ Richards rode into
the small, northern Utah town of Stillman,
he’d been unemployed going on three months
since he’d left his job as a hired...
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narrative, adventure, history, hurt, judgement,
Family Remembers, Part III
by David Welch
III-Jana
Four months following Marie’s conviction,
Jana walked calmly into the prison,
there to see her former sister-in-law,
doing twenty years for sale and possession.
She had a purpose she...
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anger, dark, divorce, family,
Family Remembers, Part II
by David Welch
II-Marie
It was two full days after this charade
when Marie was told the grim news,
her ex-husband had been shanked in prison,
killed by two illegal alien youths.
When...
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anger, dark, divorce, family,
Family Remembers, Part I
by David Welch
I-Robby
Robby had been married going on eight years,
2hen his Marie demanded a divorce,
whe had been planning, lawyering up,
and instantly dragged it into the court.
Poor Robby...
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anger, dark, divorce, family,
Frozen Heart
by Alycia Wheatley
Frozen Heart
There once was two lovers, one of them died.
Which shattered the heart if the other and made her cry.
The pain ran so deep,
She could...
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death, heart, longing, loss,
another fish story
by doug pederson
posted--no swimming, strong under tows
no guard on duty
what kind of life is that, no swimming
it’s my life and I don’t need a guard
the sign...
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Oklahoma Clay
by RD McManes
Most evenings, right around supper,
when the sky was streaked red
right before dark, the old man
would talk of Oklahoma-
the first time he hunted squirrel,
down by Coal...
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family, imagery, life, loss,
Please Do Not Disturb
by Amy Sell
On a sunny morning in September 1984
My mom’s best friend Linda drove to the grocery store
With her four-year-old daughter Becky in tow
Listening to the radio,...
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anxiety, bereavement, car, emotions,
Dobbie
by Jimmi Canada
Being high:
On information,
a good dream,
or even a phase of one,
Wishing upon a star to save your soul,
Seeing both the best and worst of things, and...
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city, earth, emotions, international,
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death, depression, loss, mother,
Old Benson, Part II
by David Welch
...Utterly stunned, Harvey then poured through
the town’s online photographic archives,
the twenties, fifties, eighties and today
revealed to Harvey the very same sight.
Then for some reason that...
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history, perspective, philosophy, science,