Short Bereaved Poems

Dear
Bereaved 
Singled out
Struggled heady
Love...

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Now,
he 
from pain
is set free-
pain for her,went on....

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midnight explodes, cheers, sings
life for the new year begins
a mother still wears black...

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Her
sorrow
drips in tears-
onto empty
hands

Ekphrasis inspired by Piets by Michelangelo...

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Barely can I even breathe
(I'm always out of breath!)
Oh, my lungs of me bereaved-
I smoked them to my Death!...

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The secret unlocked,
to stay or to leave

Each mystery unsolved
—a memory bereaved

(Dreamsleep: July, 2021)...

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I wasn’t asked if I was ready
No answers to my “Why?”
I had only just said hello
When I was forced to say goodbye....

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How long is a piece of Rope ?

As long as a Suicide Noose

But not as long as the Bereaved Grief

Infinate Knots...

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

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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...

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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)...

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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....

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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...

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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...

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~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...

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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....

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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...

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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)...

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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....

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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....

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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...

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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!...

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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....

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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....

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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...

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