Loss Prayer Poems | Examples
These Loss Prayer poems are examples of Prayer poems about Loss. These are the best examples of Prayer Loss poems written by international poets.
My heart cries out in longing for my dear,
imploring Him who holds you now: draw near.
Please send us good weather.
Praying to not lose our modest farm.
We're giving it our all.
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: Honorable Mention 2026
Everything was wrong.
Gloomy shades of sadness,
knowing she lay
dead on a cold slab.
He'll never love again.
His anger could not abate.
She had made her peace,
with her unknown god.
Now he understood the why
of her soft, secretive sighs.
He felt the sunless chill.
No one could console him.
He must bear his loss alone,
knowing she was now nothing
but vapour, since nothing could
exist after life's loss.
For if god existed
wouldn't he give him a sign?
In the crippled light
feeling like a fallen butterfly,
he suddenly felt a breeze,
caressing his face.
Something rustled in the grass,
and from afar. a church bell rang.
Fiction
Everyone grieves in their own way
that’s a fact not a belief…
Which means there is not date of completion
no timeline for our grief…
To all the thought and prayers
those who’ve suffered a loss might be receiving…
Today I’m grateful to add
this Native American Prayer of grieving:
I give you this one thought to keep
I am with you still…I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow,
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain,
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning hush,
I am the swift, uplifting rush
of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not think of me as gone…
I am with you still…in each new dawn.
I like to think that you were there
when muezzin trills called to prayer.
Calm stillness drifted in au clair,
my thoughts were pining on the air.
I like to think that you were there
as pastel-colored skies so rare
unfolded day's soft morning glare.
A comfort holding no compare.
I like to think that you were there
in uniform, so debonaire!
A dream of mine and yours to share.
We two were one, a single pair.
Desert winds shifted sandbars bare
with hateful, boastful, intense flare.
As I stand in hypnotic stare,
I like to think that you were there.
I stumble each day,
Praying to a God I now barely believe in.
The years of turning to my faith
Diminished
In the eye of insurmountable pain,
A loss so great that it shook me to the ground.
Searching for the why
In your goodbye,
Feeling betrayed by the Great One,
Stealing my precious child in the wee hours of the night.
Struggling to find my footing,
Knowing deep down that He is bigger than life.
I lost my way,
The night you went His way.
11/4/2023
He slammed his heavy door, right in friendships’ face!
She cried heavy tears into a handkerchief of dainty, lilac lace.
The silver moon rose in the sky, she heard it whisper, with a cloudy sigh…..
“God did see that email, and your new, best friend is almost nigh.”
Serenity Prayer, by Reinhold Niebuhr
“God, grant me the serenity, to accept the things
I cannot change.
The courage to change the things I can, and the
wisdom to know the difference!”
At my leisure I strolled through post-college life
worked smart by day, partook of pleasure at night
One morning woke up on the back side of the hill
my dreams unattainable, attenuated my will
Never tested my mettle, never once even dared
stretch my arms out to Him, make my life over with prayer
I’m running away
to unearth consolation.
My knees - my bindle,
carried to the ground.
To unearth consolation,
I’ve traveled so far, so near.
Carried to the ground -
all my trepidation and loss.
I’ve traveled, so far, so near
to the presence of Christ.
All my trepidation and loss
laid down at the foot of the cross.
To the presence of Christ -
my knees. My bindle
laid down at the foot of the cross.
Yes! I'm running away.
8/9/2022
Modern non-rhyming Pantoum
A hollow prayer for what cannot be:
A distant day when you, again, I see.
My empty heart yet yearns for you around
Though now you wear a devil’s crown.
Farewell my love, alas adieux, my queen
Eternity has come between.
Thoughts and Prayers
This life can be hard and not very fair
You are in our thoughts and specifically this prayer
We store many memories to help keep us sane
Recall them all often, they’ll help ease the pain
Such a tragic loss has no rhythm or rhyme
There are no magic words that will bring healing with time
Chaos can ensue when life’s order is defiled
There is no greater pain than the loss of a child
A prayer will be sent with the next evening star
May God heal your heart, each battle wound and scar
This plea is for peace in the path set for you
I pray that God’s light turns your black sky to blue
11-13-2021
somewhere in Wailing Wall
mother places last letter from her boy
recites heartbreaking prayer
SECOND PLACE WINNER
written August 28, 2021
Kimo 6-10-7 in memoriam
I grieve in solemn cries
I grieve for victims of so many lies
I grieve for loss of life, the ill and injured
Praying for the wounds of our country to be cured
I grieve for friend’s suffering around me
I grieve for the truth that people cannot see
I grieve for what evil has done and doing
And all of the hatred that is spewing
God help us, forgive us, heal and save us somehow
We are falling, hurting and we need you now!
Heidi Sands
8/27/21
cold
sea fog
shrouds the road
corn whiskey breath
permeates truck/s cab
flashing lights dead ahead
break too late - crash certain, glass
shatters, blood splatters like red paint
I didn't hear nobody pray, brother
Today we hold sway
Tomorrow sorrow
No fortune to borrow
So, we pray
Today all is well
Tomorrow living hell
No one can tell
So, we pray
Today we're on top
Tomorrow we're fops
Like lightning the drop
So, we pray
Should life abend
Prayer ascends