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Bereavement Poems | Examples of Bereavement Poetry

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 short, long, best, and famous poem examples for bereavement.
Loss Kept on Marching
Tremors 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...Read the rest...
Categories: appreciation, bereavement, death of
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Remembering Your Song
Let 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...Read the rest...
Categories: bereavement, death, first love,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
I Samson wannabe feel aghast at latest turn of events regarding Gaza
I (Samson wannabe) feel aghast at latest turn of events regarding Gaza 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...Read the rest...
Categories: abuse, anger, angst, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Slipping Ember
Written: June 07, 2024 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mistakes stain death we cannot deny our heritage some may...Read the rest...
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...Read the rest...
Categories: appreciation, bereavement, death, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse



The Thing About Wounds Is
Wounds 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...Read the rest...
Categories: anger, anxiety, bereavement, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Final Words of a Bereft Poet
If 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. ...Read the rest...
Categories: bereavement, poetry,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Where have you taken my husband
Where 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...Read the rest...
Categories: angel, bereavement, blessing, dream,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member RIP Erich Anderson And Rob Dier
Woodsman 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...Read the rest...
Categories: angel, bereavement, eulogy, friendship
Form: Rhyme
Omnipresent lurch toward authoritarianism
The 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...Read the rest...
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...Read the rest...
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...Read the rest...
Categories: bereavement, cancer, death, grief,
Form: Rhyme
The Golden Hour
I'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...Read the rest...
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...Read the rest...
Categories: anxiety, art, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
Lonely Graves
Lonely 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...Read the rest...
Categories: bereavement,
Form: Free verse

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