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Short Grieving Poems

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


Premium Member A Tender Heart
A tender heart that’s hurt is not lost, it’s just grieving...

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Categories: grieving, life, sad,
Form: Monoku



Premium Member Heartache
withered bouquet feeling wretched even my flowers died.
...

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Categories: grieving, bereavement, break up, emotions, heartbreak, sad,
Form: Monoku
Blue Winter
on overcast days
damp winter winds sigh and moan
grieving over you...

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Categories: grieving, sad, seasons,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Grieving
grieving
in a bubble
of solitude



posted on September 20,2018...

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Categories: grieving, grief, longing, pain, solitude,
Form: Senryu
South Wind
on bone chilling days
wet winter winds sigh and moan
grieving over you...

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Categories: grieving, hope, nature, sad,
Form: Senryu



Premium Member Denial
author's rejection
grieving from death of loved one
our response to NO...

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Categories: grieving, life,
Form: Haiku
Times of Grieving
I kneel before her.
Met her when I turned age six.
May her poor soul rest....

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Categories: grieving, grandparents, grave, grief, longing, lost love, love,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Still Grieving
Three months since you passed
escaping your long shadow
will be quite a walk...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: grieving, absence, bereavement,
Form: Haiku
Silk Eyelids
silk eyelids flutter

as her pale petals wither---

bare grieving thorns weep...

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© Eiken Laan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: grieving, nature
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Weeping
weeping willow
haunted soul grieving
reincarnated



posted on June 29, 2019...

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Categories: grieving, grief, nature, summer, surreal, tree,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Entreating Evening
The evening's grieving the icy night's
          kiss of mist as the dawn yawns.

3/23/20...

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Categories: grieving, kiss, longing, morning, night,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member Warm Tears On Cold Stone
warm tears on cold stone alone, the work of grieving geese in formation
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Categories: grieving, grief,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Angel's Death
A grieving mother sinks
to the pavement
arms outstretched

Tears mingle
hers and Heaven's
in unison etched...

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Categories: grieving, angel, death, grief, mother,
Form: Rhyme
School Shooting In Texas
Another shooting
more innocent children dead
  guns for everyone
more families left grieving
  NRA now lobbying...

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Categories: grieving, 10th grade, 11th grade, death, family, fear,
Form: Tanka
Despair
thieving
heaving
grieving
weaving
Your weaving, thieving thought pattern
Now grieving, heaving stars at Saturn...

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Categories: grieving, anger, angst, bereavement,
Form: Tyburn
Mourn
A half-mast flag melancholy fluttered blood of Heroes drench the ground, the country is grieving.
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Categories: grieving, hero, war,
Form: Kimo
The Grieving Mother
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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Categories: grieving, bereavement, children, death, grief, loss, mother,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Divested
Divested from his state of grace
Witness the grieving intangible host
Fall into the dark human pit
One of their own...

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Categories: grieving, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Unheard Cries
Behind closed eyes,
the future still to mourn

Grieving in a blinded state
—orphans left unborn

(Dreamsleep: October, 2020)...

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Categories: grieving, abortion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Flower Cut Much Too Soon
A flower at the budding stage which
Will never now reach full bloom,
This flower’s potential left unfurled, 
A flower cut much too soon....

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Categories: grieving, child, death, funeral, sad, sad love, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Today Grieves
Is it ever enough,
  will it ever be enough

Today grieving for tomorrow
 —all truth in the past

(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2017)...

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Categories: grieving, truth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mere Words
The cries of a mother in labor
   And those of her new-born babe
The tears of a spouse, grieving other
   Transcending language, one after another...

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Categories: grieving, anxiety, baby, cry, mother, words,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Aloha Lahaina
today’s conch bead lei - aloha Lahaina & lokelani rose nod & prayer from the mainland grieving your loss, your song heard
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Categories: grieving, in memoriam,
Form: Tanka
When I Stop
When I stop weeping
for you,
When I stop hiding
from the world,
When I stop grieving,
and start living
and laughing
again,
I'll still be missing you....

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Categories: grieving, loss,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Senryu 8 - Lost
tears falling like rain
                                             grieving for lost innocence
                                                   never to be found...

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Categories: grieving, introspection, loss, sad,
Form: Senryu

Book: Shattered Sighs