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Grief Perspective Poems

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


Premium Member Turning Point - Coming of Age - Acceptance at Last
("Mrs. It Dances Through It", 2014, original pen and ink)

Turning Point - Coming of Age - Acceptance at Last

Finally at age 65 I reach a...

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Categories: age, angst, anxiety, perspective,



Premium Member The Wife Of Job
Although she urged her husband Job
To "curse God and die",
Was this said in hatred? 
More likely, with a cry.

She too lost her livelihood.
She felt her...

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Categories: perspective,

Premium Member The Latest Ripped Jeans
  Stains on my shirt
    holes in my pants
  My wardrobe’s Salvation Army
    not quite Paris, France...

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Categories: perspective, clothes, cry, growing up,

Premium Member Dreaming
(Methow Waters, 2011)

Dreaming

In the space of dreaming
I awaken to what is real, 
again and again, dreaming  
that everything that has been
has been but a...

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Categories: dream, life, perspective, spiritual,

Premium Member The Mores of Morays
Why would God give moray eels
A life wherein they live concealed
In a beautiful, bountiful, rapturous reef
Merely to cause the nearby fishes grief?
When the moon and...

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Categories: analogy, evil, perspective, sea,



Premium Member A Poor, Wayfaring Man of Grief, Part Three
A poor, wayfaring man of grief,
Is humble and serene,
As we display, a brand new leaf,
He celebrates the scene.

He knows the name of everyone,
Who stops to...

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Categories: christian, perspective,

Premium Member Unassailable Purity
Unassailable purity, a cognition divine of venerated mind,
Proffers promise inviolable, beneficence sacred aligned,
With force invincible emanating from goodwill of heart
Forming precepts impeccable, teachings benevolent impart.

Purity...

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Categories: inspirational, meaningful, perspective,

Premium Member Spectre of Me
Hark… hark… hear my voice, a mere leftover refrain
Never can you see me, I’ve no form left to gain 
Look up… look up… and miss...

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Categories: loss, love, perspective,

Premium Member Quietly
There are many "cures" for depression, some of them are drugs from a pharmacist, and others are creations by a loving God.

Quietness seeps in through...

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Categories: perspective, blessing, christian, faith, hope,

Something You Should Know
Once, when I was about three years old,
I had a dream.
It wasn't a nightmare, necessarily;
it was a different type of scary.

I don't remember how it...

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Categories: perspective, child, childhood, dream, grief,

Premium Member When Doves Cry
Each time the doves cry 
my tears fail to fall 
Like mist they hover 
within the white squall
Storms can pass on over 
or forever stall
Makes...

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Categories: eulogy, loss, perspective,

Premium Member Inhaling Hope
I've been there,
I have done that,
I ain't saying I am part of the act.
I see my steps,
Blinded mistakes,
Added up the visions.
Why is that I continue?
What...

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Categories: goodbye, grief, perspective, sensual,

One Day
Missing someone you have never met
Feels like waiting for a moment that has happened before
Wanting a love you'll never get
Even though they are on the...

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Categories: perspective, absence, grief, i miss

Premium Member Love
Love can feel like lust, only more durable and sublime 
The flip side of grief, a lot less trouble, mostly divine
Whenever this develops, a warmth...

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Categories: humanity, love, perspective,

Is This My End
Is my end here, or is it just the start?
A feeling of uncertainty deep within my heart,
A nagging doubt that lingers in my mind,
A fear...

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Categories: perspective, desire, destiny, endurance, grief,


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