Elegy Poems | Elegy Examples

O classroom once alive with gentle voices, Where morning greetings bloomed so bright and clear, I leave you now—stripped of certain choices, Unheard, unseen, dismissed through quiet fear. The silence came—a shadow down the hall, Erasing names without a single word. No answer rose to break the rising wall, No hand reached out, no empathy was stirred. The leader’s crown slipped heavy from...

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My chest holds echoes none can hear, A hush of thoughts that won’t appear. What once was warm now drifts like mist, A weight unseen, too dense to lift. Each fracture blooms a quieter scar, Where bitter seeds still grow afar. No shore, no flame, no sense of tide— Just vacant halls I roam inside. By day I wear a borrowed face, By night...

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Griefs love breathed a GOSSAMER kiss upon stolen lips, A moment that dwelled a silent eternity in my memory Thoughts once more prizing open the gate to my heart, Earthly GRAVE the flowers looked, where love remained. Eyes struggle in the mirrors of my GODFORSAKEN world These GHOSTLY limbs carry my weight to kiss your tomb As the GROANING...

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The cold, so cold ground Binding and pulling And holding me down Embraced by the crypt Confined and restrained And life’s breath stripped Stygian inked Such stifling dark And soul’s light extinct I find myself here Trussed by death’s grave Without hope, just fear In the cold, cold ground Decayed and corrupt Neath my burial mound ...

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Here one day gone the next I did not know you very well You were always nice to me Commonalities in passing Sudden sadness in the clouds The old heads respected you Sadness in everyone’s heart Grief in everyone’s eyes Stillness in your energy gone The type of sudden sadness Which leaves you in shock The type of sudden sadness Which brings...

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He was a man who knew how to knock out another man. Against amateurs, there was just no match for him. 4 years of tough man competitions, he walked away with the title everytime.   I worked with him for over 10 years and had many talks about boxing. He told me about how he got to spar Tyson...

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I scrubbed the shame from under my fingernails, as if guilt could be washed like dirt. Cold showers never baptized the ache; just gave it discipline, a neat little collar for the beast inside. They called me godly. I stood on pulpits of silence, hiding my hard truths in folded hands and stitched lips. “Virtue,” I said once, like it was a sword I...

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A flicker of wings, a breath of color suspended between here and gone. They say the dead return as birds, hearts restless, beating too fast, as if trying to outfly time. The hummingbird lingers, drinking deep, trembling, as if it knows the flowers will fade, as if it knows the light is dying. And then— It is gone, ...

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I was your mom before i was anything else, My name, before my plans, Before the life i thought i’d have— I was yours. Now the world keeps turning, But i don’t know where i fit, Who am i supposed to be If I'm no longer your mom? People say, you’ll always be Cody’s mother, But they don’t understand, Being a mother is doing,...

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I am the ghost inside my chest, Unseen, unheard, yet never at rest. I drift through halls of memory, Where joy once lived but fled from me. My breath like frost, my blood runs cold, A whisper trapped in hands grown old. I wear regret like funeral lace, And see the world through sorrow’s face....

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A empty page awaits the perfect words I hope will convey what I feel when looking back at the lifetime we shared. But I am at a loss for words, for none hold the weight that my heart holds today, now out of sync with the world I once knew, missing beat after beat...

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"Memories buried in the wavering wash of time." I write you now with trembling hand, The ink runs like the river sand, Where once we laughed, side by side— Now silence stands where you had died. Your dog tags hang from rusted steel, A ghost’s reminder I still feel. Your voice just echoes in my chest, A joke, a shout, your final rest. We...

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Youthful Israeli embassy couple, almost engaged, gunshots fired in the May DC eve, murdered sweethearts, hate, it never pauses, almost had hope, shalom to the world. ~...

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I have long been swallowed by pain. My face has been sinking in tears pouring like rain. My walls hear more cries more than anyone My pillow wipes my tears when I have no one I have always taken death slightly until it came home Since that day, like a lost puppy I began to roam. I have always felt...

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Legacies of the now and the after Blossoms and glooms in a cycle A breech of sadness and laughter Thoughts of the past in the present The after life dreaded thoughts These are thoughts of the after life (Written 12/08/2024)...

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