Grief Passion Poems

You’re like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again. - Maggie Stiefvater,...

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Raised in the church, ingrained in Christian belief 
of confession, repentance, true grief. 
A sinner and ill-behaved
salvation I craved
I’m nervous
saved?
for service?
That journey I braved
confirmed the...

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Upon the cross, He hung in pain,  
His body broken, His spirit strained.  
The weight of sin upon His frame,  
In agony,...

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Sea of my youth.

What part made it hard to Love me,  the Bering sea of my youth, I'd settled less, for lies and so...

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In the mind, you’re merely an echo of what your song invites me to see – the whisper, the sigh, the notes of a song...

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Trompe L'oeil
I use to be so sure of my colors
But now my vision is jaded
Perhaps it is obscured
from the THOUSANDS of tears I've shed

I taught...

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In the secret places
Of my heart, 
Little breaths erase the whispers,
Lingering like softest inspirations,
Listening to my beating, rhythmic 
Echoes, freedoms
Moments just like dewlike dreams,
Falling softly...

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Conjuring and challenging my silly, puny solitude…
Enduring and foliage of squalid grief…left me in the nude of the wintertime 
Sometimes, I wander…I wonder…I ponder so...

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The ghost of passion swirls in my soul
      he who elicited it all from me has fled this earthly place
 ...

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I love Christmas
a special time
watching people smile
seeing children laugh
a blessing this year
in lieu of the grief
and illness around
we need to remember
it's a time to 
love...

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wife beater
cheater
a man whom commits domestic violence
against his spouse
or long term female partner in house
Physical abuse by husband or male companion No good cheater
Extreme jealousy
Possessiveness...

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Heavy as sin, 
Trusting nothing, no one,
Never more than a distant fog,
Secreting the promises,
Fading into the yesterdays,
Stirring stars, shimmering 
Resting on the night, breathless
As daybreak...

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Foggy mists engulfed the bright
When raindrops fell throughout the night
The lampposts glowed at midnights dark
When sweethearts kissed at Lover's Park
 
 
A kiss that did...

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Cry no tears for a country that has no shame,
Weep instead for the innocent lives that it has claimed.
The names of our innocent brothers and...

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Whence I did take my chisel to stone
Carved I a damsel in rock
She bore the finest curves
As men bespoke of in droves

Each part was etched...

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