Short Grief Poems

Short Grief Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Grief by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Grief by length and keyword.


Grief

Grief
a state with no expiration 
it will come, stay until it goes
how long, we don't know 
Grief has no sell by date
© Rp Kumari  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Elegy


Sail

My emotions talk louder than my 
voice
My painting dipicts I am hollow 
Sail me through the sea 
Almighty I am on my knee
Form:

Lightning and Thunder

Lightning and thunder,
Vortex swirls above my head.
I cannot hear you.
Form: Haiku

Summer

The silence of summer,oh I hear!
I hear him laughing in delight..
I hear her kindness..
I hear my own voice,an ocean..
Form:

Teeth Grief

Cleaning teeth, what a relief,
When you know where they have been,
What I forced them to eat today
Really was obscene.
Form: Rhyme


Sweet, Sweet Rose -89

Sweet, Sweet Rose -89
When I annoy you
Tell me what I have done
don't let me waddle -
©Al Juman style 5-7-5 (ha-i-ku)
© Al Juman  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Haiku

Ignored Words

Myriad of stories to share,
But no ears have time to spare,
Load of tonnes of words,
Vetoed heart has to forlonly bear!
Form: Quatrain

Mother and Father

"There's not a day goes by I don't cry"

"My mom and dad envisioned in my mind" 

"Always will be until the day I die"
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Dear Nra Automated Spokespersons

If the Parkland families are a disarming mob,

Then the NRA counter-evolutionaries
are an automated killer infestation.

8 Billion People

8 billion people had problems
8 billion people had fears
8 billion people sat helpless
when 8 billion people sold tears
Form: Quatrain

Friends and Money

some pretend
just to get
they call you honey
think you got money
some have a grim
everything funny
FREINDS AND MONEY

Premium Member All Talk

Hawaii fireworks
still deadly and maim for life
like annual debates
Hawaiian language council 
argues o'er Kona coffee
Form: Tanka

The Date

The fork goes on the left.
The poor go on the streets.
And the crock sits on the table
when the date has blessed defeat.
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member Self-Kindness

I've found a method to cultivate self-kindness After all the grief
Written: March 19, 2022
© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Moved On

looking up to the skies
for leading me
back home to you
is now the path
to its brightest star



AP: 1st place 2021

Premium Member A New Day

overnight my world shattered
I needed to muster my courage
be brave and rebuild my life



AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Premium Member Grief

the child was bereft
her mother was inconsolable
daddy was gone 
nothing could uplift either
until a red balloon flew by

Premium Member Heaven's Broadcast

how i love listening to the whisper in your voice of midnight stars
AP: 1st place 2021

Oh Please Stand By Me

at this time
you on my mind
lord i need you by my side
be my guild
only you can set me free
lord
PH PLEASE STAND BY ME

Get Up Be a Man

laying around in the dust
stop you must
this fess
shake the bad stuff
yes lifes ruff
get a better plan
GET UP BE A MAN

Angels Weeping

The angels danced the day you were born, now in your memory they mourn. November 12, 2016

Premium Member Mourning Dove

the mourning dove coos
               a sad melody outside
               calming in life's grief

Heidi Sands

6/12/18
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Snowflakes

SNOWFLAKES


Snowflakes:
Tears of angels
Crystallized by the
Agony of human
Pain!



©Demetrios Trifiatis
   20 February 2013
Form: Epigram

Time For Healing

we must stop the dust
do right
stop this fight
its pain
in ashame
stop being insane
its not appealing
TIME FOR HEALING

Soon Again Summer

soon the slash
and the beach
where we each 
lay in the sand 
listen to beach band
soon to be beach bummer
soon 
SUMMER

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