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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.


Hobby Farmer
Withdrawn for publication....

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Categories: anger, autumn, grief, tree,
Form: Tanka



Premium Member ZULEIKA- My SpokenWord-
Listen to poem:
written verse forth coming......

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Categories: analogy, beautiful, character, conflict, courage, engagement, grief,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member white sheets
your absence
the bed
only half unmade...

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Categories: grief, life,
Form: Senryu
Sudden Impact
birds flight
ends abruptly 
sudden impact...

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Categories: fantasy, funny, grief, visionary,
Form: Haiku
Down
The sun is merely a chaperone to the darkness...

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© Adam Foley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dark, depression, grief, heartbreak, loneliness, pain, sad
Form: Lyric



Premium Member falling
falling 
to my knees in grief --
solid ground...

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Categories: grief, sad,
Form: Senryu
Thanks
a single kindness -- warms a mighty weary heart...

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Categories: appreciation, blessing, grief, heart, love, thank you,
Form: Monoku
Birthday
Today.
Mom's birthday.
Would have been...
75....

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© John Floyd  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: birthday, death, grief, missing you, mom, mother,
Form: Free verse
GLOBALIZATION
Weaker economies,enslaved by stronger economies!...

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Categories: grief,
Form: Monoku
Winter's Requiem
Winter’s requiem:
A solemn note,
frozen solid....

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Categories: absence, grief, introspection, romance, song, sorrow, winter,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member BIRDS EYE VIEW
In 
preying
on others-
magpies feed on 
grief...

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Categories: grief, animals, nature,
Form: Pastoral
Premium Member democratizing

democratizing
totalitarianism
Corpus Delicti...

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Categories: america, analogy, change, conflict, grief, perspective,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member BIRDS EYE VIEW
In 
preying
on others-
magpies feed on 
grief...

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Categories: grief, nature,
Form: Cinqku
Time
I watched the shadow
Trying to make sense of time!...

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Categories: day, destiny, earth, grief, sun, time,
Form: Haiku
Benumbed
The pain of loss.
Benumbed!
The loss of pain..

...

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Categories: absence, grief, loss, word play,
Form: I do not know?
House of hunger
House of hunger
The parents joined 
A ponzi scheme...

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Categories: africa, age, anger, grief, introspection, jobs, mental
Form: Senryu
Art of Peace : no contest but thanX Michelle F
I
Walk in others' shoes, fear of God/Universe: peace...

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© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: africa, america, grief, growth, international, peace, people,
Form: Monoku
Dead Moon
This is the way
Where the moon fell
And died..........

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© Mukut Ali  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: grief,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member grief stricken
Excruciating loss of limbs

As tears run uncontrolled...

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Categories: grief, loss,
Form: Free verse
haiku 11
white roses
collect diamond dew drops--
a choir sings...

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Categories: grief,
Form: Haiku
Grief or Loss
My pain is deep
Inside I weep
while the world sleeps....

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Categories: cry, grief, loss, pain, sad,
Form: Triolet
The writer
I am holding a pen,
dying to caress,
my exasperation....

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Categories: art, grief, imagination, recovery from, write, writing,
Form: Haiku
RED LIGHTS
India is waiting,
At Mumbai's red lights,
No green!
...

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Categories: abuse, community, corruption, evil, grief,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member FORSAKEN
Grief
observed,
tears and pain-
was our God on 
mute...

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Categories: grief, faith,
Form: Lyric
Memory
Grief that settles 
Deep in the throat 
Memories sting...

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Categories: angst, death, grief,
Form: Haiku