Bereavement Poems - Examples of all types of bereavement poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read
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Loss Kept on MarchingTremors shake beneath trepidatious feet.
To shake when shooken offers scents of defeat.
Took in thine imagery from perches unseen.
Salivating secretions ooze and seep secrecy.
Scantily clad corruptions do sit upright.
Smirking shards the aimless beacon leads.
Lapping pools of...
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Categories:
appreciation, bereavement, death of
Form: Free verse
Remembering Your SongLet me hear your love song
Whilst in silence I was long
Let me taste your melody
Like sweet berries on my tongue
Let me hear your love song
Slide your bow across the strings
Move to the wave of my...
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Categories:
bereavement, death, first love,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
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Omnipresent grief and horror
abounds toward ceaseless killing fields
impossible mission for me
to summon forth fading magic powers
since Delilah imposter hashtagged,
(and subsequently outed)
as a mortal...
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Categories:
abuse, anger, angst, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
Slipping Ember
Written: June 07, 2024
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Mistakes stain death
we cannot deny our heritage
some may...
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Categories:
bereavement, courage, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Your Flowers
I hate the fact that it took me ages
More so, that you are receiving in absentia
Please forgive my untimely timing
A vivid portrayal of my short-comings
With regrets, here i kneel...
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Categories:
appreciation, bereavement, death, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
The Thing About Wounds IsWounds close and reopen..You may heal temporarily, you may even walk away, get up every morning, go to work, live your life..
Then one day the wound sits and stares at you as you...
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Categories:
anger, anxiety, bereavement, death,
Form: Free verse
Final Words of a Bereft PoetIf I could no longer write poetry, I'd have no need of hands,
nor eyes weary from weeping, a heart that lies broken,
and a soul dead from mourning. ...
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Categories:
bereavement, poetry,
Form: Elegy
Where have you taken my husbandWhere is my husband
please tell me where
he is where have you
taken him I want to know
everything about his
last laugh his last breath
is he still with us I begged
just...
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Categories:
angel, bereavement, blessing, dream,
Form: Free verse
RIP Erich Anderson And Rob DierWoodsman on a prowl
Sneaking around like an owl
Noticing innocents getting a fright
Watchman you are a good knight
Defending partiers in a plight
Battling a monster in a murderous fight
Erich you guarded them...
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Categories:
angel, bereavement, eulogy, friendship
Form: Rhyme
Omnipresent lurch toward authoritarianismThe views and opinions herewith extemporized to spur discourse with me, or to be mindful when exercising the right to vote in the country of your existence, which expressed intimation predicated upon read reliable publications...
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Categories:
bereavement, abortion, abuse, america, anger,
Form: Free verse
The Image of Him
The Mother Sun no longer embraced me
No more adrenaline rush that motivates me to get up
Breakfast seems bland, faded colors of rotten apple
Unfurled window curtains is the angle that I see
Unheard thoughts of forks lying...
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Categories:
bereavement, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Open door
I still havnt found that door I should open,
The door to a future and mends what is broken,
A gateway to happiness,
A land full of dreams,
To walk through this door is everything it seems,
A...
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Categories:
bereavement, cancer, death, grief,
Form: Rhyme
The Golden HourI'll signal to you
Come find me in the golden hours
I'll see you bathed in the warmest light
I'll close my eyes to hear you whisper through the air that surrounds me
Open my heart to feel...
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Categories:
absence, bereavement, dream, grief,
Form: Free verse
Cloud Chaser
I'm the girl who gets lost
Does she ever come back?
only in pieces I think
This cloud chaser that I am
Dissappears bit by bit
A life of incomplete sentences, unfinished poems
I've become a collection of random notes left...
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Categories:
anxiety, art, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
Lonely GravesLonely graves
One day
The Lord looked down from heaven
And saw all the graves without flowers
Those with no visitors to mourn
He cried
These are my children
The one who begged on a street corner
The one who spoke to herself
Because...
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Categories:
bereavement,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Bereavement Poems
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