Short Bereaved Poems

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Premium Member CUATRO - - STREAKS OF TWILIGHT

Crimson dome perceived
as bloodshed of a brutal act
grave silence of dark
is to condole with the bereaved


Place: 3rd
Form: Quatrain


A Pulling Abyss

At a cliff, hanging,
My grip starts going unwind,
Making me fall deep...
A bereaved forlorn abyss,
Comes pulling us to our death...
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Never Forget 9-11-21

years old microphones grown kids ~twenty years~ bereaved tapping tacit tears beat hours beat ~TAPS~ trumpet tase seared seats for the fallen’s kin 9/11/2021
Form: Tanka

In This Swirl Of Leaves

In this swirl of leaves
Of dark bewitchment
Wears them for a cloak, drabber
Common cold blown mopes
A soul, by Death's hand
Bereaved, driven mad.
Windless, do yet catch a wail
Midst the tattered hopes.
Form: Rhyme

One Voice

There’s a hole in my heart
where dreams used to be
A pain that’s indwelling
all joy there bereaved

The emptiness deepens
 with each rocket that falls
One voice in the millions
—to answer the call

(Dreamsleep: October, 2023)
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Final Song

Soulful chorus wistful cries, guitar strums last goodbye, bereaved ears melodies speak, breaking hearts rhythmic beats, lyrics rain mirrored skies, shattered tears brittle eyes, as sombre mourners sing
Form: Rhyme

FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA, PALESTINE WILL BE FREE

Soot covered in the sky,
unending wails of freedom,
bereaved families and friends
even the little ones were not spared
but the dead ones will forever be alive in hearts,
light will shine & blood will cease
and Palestine will be free.
©Kafe3lah

Bereaved

Bereft of life her eyes
Barren they stare as folks
Bring casseroles, breads, pies
Bouquets of fresh flowers
Business of world still thrives
Bright summer day so warm
Baby of hers lies cold

Written on 08/16/2016
Contest-Pleaides B by Kim Merryman
Form: Verse

Premium Member Fools

~Fools~


.......Are those who believe anything!
.......Especially~ fear mongering!
.......The gourmet dinner delight for court jestering!
.......That leaves a bereaved world festering!


                     10-26-2020
                        Poem# 2
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Cheery Church Committee

Our Hostess Committee, comprised mostly of women, makes sure the kitchen is stocked with supplies, arranges and serves meals for major church events and bereaved families. Last, we clean up. We serve cheerfully, for we feel honored.
Form: Etheree

Stranded In the Aftermath

Young & naive 
Lingering in the aftermath
Feeling bereaved 
And somewhat cold

Wishing I could forget
Needing to start again
Take away the regret 
Before I begin

Tinkering in the shower
Washing every imperfection
Every flower
Until I find satisfaction.
© Skyy Allen  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Dead Letters

Dead Letters

Love was sent, but not received
So, jaded was the former host
For this, occurred on Hallows eve
Love was sent, but not received
Love alone and now bereaved 
'Cause the latter, was a ghost
Love was sent but not received
So, jaded was the former host
Form: Triolet

Sangfroid Buddha

Decades of sweat and toil
Turn a filthy hell-hole
The colossal disasters efface
Even the civilized human race

The bereaved throat sobs
Every eye sheds tears
Yet amid the weird graveyard
The tranquil Buddha sits unmoved!

(In tsunami-smitten Shrilanka 
  this was the scene in
  one of  the graveyards)
Form:

Nothing But Lies

They're all the same 
Two faced females.
 Nothing but lies 
In broad daylight 
Told without shame.

They promise all 
and keep but naught.
A fool believes 
their kind deceits.

Their fealty 
Becomes so leer 
Their lies revealed. 
Your world of hap 
Starts to collapse.

Alone again 
You find yourself , 
Bereaved of friends 
Who love you said.
Form: Verse

I Am the World You Cannot Possibly See

I am the water flowing so free,
Your scorn and ridicule cannot restrict me.
I am the air you breathe to survive,
No wonder, without me, you find it hard to thrive.
I am the sky you want to reach,
Be careful of what you preach.
Shoot all your arrows, darts and spears galore,
For when I am gone, you will be bereaved, crestfallen, and hollow.

Blessedness

Writing Challenge - B Word 
WRITTEN: 1/28/23
 

BLESSEDNESS
Your blessedness and bouquet gift of bougainvilleas 
leaves me breathless
the beautiful and beloved butterfly bereaved 
and brokenhearted sees humanity lying lifeless 
on the bloodstained dying fields of greed
the perpetrator’s brouhaha will die with their arrogance
without blessedness

Torches Tied

With queries and questions
for a year-long protracted night,
understanding came in a instant,
I believed.

       Going home, alone, accompanied 
       by a weird, unfamiliar light;
       I drove off a familiar cliff.
       They bereaved.

Instead of  mortuary, a mansion
designed by spirit, not by might
I’m home amid thousands 
well- received.
Form: Rhyme

Leave

An interlude of spawned achieve
I felt some cursory, like a thief
had stolen my domain, my chief -
while watching rivers flow, bereaved!

Not war - not other answers brief
not ideology's retrieve,
and for some languoring, I did receive
that love as innocent life's conceive.

How solemn that all time believes ...
while man takes armor, as his leave!
Form: Rhyme

Always There

When bereaved
it is only natural
to hope instinctively
for an eventual reunion
to take place
with the departed-
although we are possibly
already reunited?
Sufferring the pain
of seeming seperation
during our brief mortality,
we long to see each face
of loved ones lost,
and to hear each voice again-
without realising they never really
left at all.
Form:

Premium Member Of Sobbing Flames

Love's last light throws ember shadows
sighing coals cast waning arrows
of sobbing flame on lukewarm ground;
twilight spits into the fire,
but cannot slake my starved desire,
bereaved heart cloaked in misery's gown.
How dare Cupid so fickle turn
exchanging smiles for face now stern
stealing my regal red rose crown.


©Faye Lanham Gibson, June 12, 2014
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Lovelight

My lovelight for you never shadowed,
my heart ascends into the flames of
the churning restless sun in
the soul wounds of the bereaved.

Forever you're in all my season's dreams,
a dedication, a tribute-
cannot be lost into the cosmos.
It lilts in our songs and
shooting star's journeys,
and fills the elements with
a universal anthem of unending cherish. ~

Grawlix Eduction: Que Sera, Sera

In the sub jove frigido land of fire’s
bellezza mångata, the mysteriarch’s

mamihlapinatapai wrapped around
his wonderwall much in the way

wrabbed cats pr-ove their ataraxia by
wrapping their oneiric atara

around foilsick ailurophiles as nepenthe
for their companion’s bereaved love,

henotic ambrosia for the sonder of star-
eyed lovers with silent soliloquies

Premium Member Kindness

KINDNESS


Kindness,
Sister of love
Helper of compassion
Companion of Goodness
Rescuer of the needy,

You who:
The hungry feed
The homeless shelter
The sick nurse
The lonely befriend 
The bereaved console,

I IMPLORE YOU  

Make our hearts  
Your earthly domain 
AND
Transform us
Into 
Charitable GIANTS 
For our brothers’ 
SAKE! 

© Demetrios Trifiatis
      16  February 2013
Form: Epigram

1955

I am a prophet of peace,
A procurer of leaves; 
Catcher of breeze.
Visions of thieves?
No such disease
I live in the trees.
Free from taxes and fees. 
Share it with me?
Comparatively, believe
unless you're bereaved
to heave
a shiv
into thine rift
of sand that sifts.
I do uplift
my fist
to the outspoken
of wrist
to tap, even if a twit,
on this pit,
the internet skit.

Orlando

Rainbow flags and Pride
are slim protection against
hate and machine guns.


[May the deceased rest in peace and the injured and bereaved have swift recoveries. This hatred must be better combated, or be better managed by those supposed to be protecting us. This could have happened to anyone. Groups that influence losers in society should be better monitored, both here and abroad.]
© Jim Tidd  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Senryu

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