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 Fare Thee Well

there are
merciless 
words that shatter joy
falling with tears of farewell
as sorrow’s wayward ghosts come fleetingly home


Unheard Cries

Behind closed eyes,
the future still to mourn

Grieving in a blinded state
—orphans left unborn

(Dreamsleep: October, 2020)
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)

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
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
Form: Tanka


Premium Member 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.

Premium Member His Grief In Another Universe

He all of a sudden experiences a new psychosis,
As he solemnly stands in the sunset in his grieving process,
Tossing onto her grave a thousand stemless red roses.
Form: Sijo

Premium Member Senryu 8 - Lost

tears falling like rain
                                             grieving for lost innocence
                                                   never to be found
Form: Senryu

Still Born

God gave you to me
but for a moment
As I held you in my arms
That moment became
the rest of my life
One cherished moment
stretched by years
In a grieving  heart.

Premium Member Leaves Are Leaving

From whitened trees, leaves are leaving
Releasing fall, color flutters
Upon the wind's icy mutters
With a ruby river weaving
Homage to a season's grieving


10/20/23
Form: Quintilla

Amid Bewildered Core

Amid barking clouds death evanesced 
fighting grieving hesitantly inclining 
for justice keening for life moaning 
not obeying only persevering
quarrel remaining, soul tearing…
Form: ABC

Our Need of You

Worship Blissful, Divine Healing, Uplifting, Revering Emptying my sorrow, Draining my tomorrow Recalling, Grieving, Erasing Grave, Distraught Worry
Form: Diamante

Premium Member Emptied Eyes

Each memory a breeze 
brushed cheek of hinted fall
when in the summer grass her grace so tall
seasons: winter, spring, come one or all
Never there, without her stare.  
Never saw.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Heaven Hears Your Tears

As your tears flow through the windows of your own soul, oh grieving heart,
Know always these are only but the gentlest of water droplets
Always evaporating upwards towards the Heavens.
Form: Sijo

Premium Member 4-4-68

Tragic night in Sixty-Eight.
Praise to my mother’s Underwood.
Grieving fingers would not abate,
creating a thesis for Masterhood,
while cities burned with hate.

Picture # 2
7/14/2024
Form: Verse

Premium Member Jasmine

jasmine adorned her bridal bouquet ... grieving groom puts blooms on coffin Writing challenge 1 May 2019 Cinqku Poetry contest Sponsored by Dear Heart 5/9/19
Form: Cinqku

Mission Santa Clara De Asis

Mission known for fine hand weaving.
Chosen site left priests not leaving.
Neophytes were seen believing.
Bay's close, great crops.
Sickness leaves now no one grieving.
Soldiers made stops.
Form: Rhyme

Miracles Happen

Unfruitful woman,
Grieving and barren
Lament not life’s fortune.
Heaven shall reckon.
Plump as a melon.
Life wrought its leaven.
Childbirth. My haven. 

© May 5, 2011
Dane Smith-Johnsen
Form: Monorhyme

Premium Member Being Stoned

Being stoned today has a different meaning Once meant with rocks, much hurt was receiving On public display So appropriate today For certain world leaders who leave us grieving
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Bridging Paradigms

i knew i had crossed the final bridge
when i stopped grieving what i had lost
and started treasuring what i'd been given



AP: 3rd place 2025, Honorable Mention 2022

Posted August 1, 2022

11 Years - A Poem On Grief

Eleven years later,
and it hits me.

You are not here and that hits hard.

I can't see you,
I can't hear you,
I can't feel you. 

I can only reminisce of the memories you and I once shared.

Premium Member Grieving

No one knows your pain 
the emptiness of your heart 
the disbelief of losing a loved one 
and never saying 
I love you again in person 
never hugging them 
and holding them close 
we are just lost

Salvation

TRAPPED in the shell, we made a home
ACHING in the heart, you helped mend
GRIEVING in the soul, you saved
ALONE with the man, I call partner
LOST in the life, we built

DESPERATELY seeking salvation
Form:

Colors

...................White
            pure, heavenly
  hoping, refreshing, sparkling
  gown, flowers, candles, tomb
   hurting, grieving, mourning
          painful, sorrowful 
                   black
sad
Form: Diamante

Premium Member Listless Song Of The Starving-POTD

Israeli hostages and Gazans hollowed,
the dark cold cruelty of some in humankind.
Gray circles under frightened eyes,
bones protruding from fading frames.
Listless song of the starving,
grieving God. ~

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