Grief Poems | Examples of Grief Poetry

On your grave years from now, when all will wither and waste, Rotten to core, air stale in taste. A white Lily will still blossom, for my love that once tied me to you, And for...Read the rest...

guilt. Guilt guilt my very bodily make up my life’s Romance after romance. Every roadmap has led to this single moment dark, black sludge that starts slowly at the toes slowly makes its way over...Read the rest...

Ten. Ten years, I've been scared, fearing the phone's ring. Twenty. Twenty years, I was, learning how goodbye really felt. Thirty. Thirty years, I reached, forty-four days ago. Forty. Forty, my brother was, for fifty-seven days. That's all he got... and that feels like all for me. I'm terrified,...Read the rest...

Didn't know it would hurt this much, I wasn't prepared for it. I loved your imperfections and the memories I didn't think I had, flown in abundance and that is what hurt the most. I'm...Read the rest...

Stitches A wound, deep and wide. Gaping, Ragged, Bleeding... Cover with the cloth of False Smiles. Cover with the cobweb gauze of Empty Sympathy. Clamp it shut with fingers of Chemical Laughter. Hold it together with shaky hands of Liquid pain relief. ...Read the rest...

WAR HERO My hero never walked in a Memorial Day parade No doubt he was the bravest of the brave And that is what I call a hero No, what I meant he is my superhero His military pension...Read the rest...

The rain fogged my window and thoughts It triggered the grief of losing you It cried for me when I couldn't What I would give just to see you one more time I just want to see you from...Read the rest...

She's a poet who writes for relief and that made her a thief Destroy every joyful people's belief because she writes poetry that will make you feel such grief....Read the rest...

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...

I keep running to your home on the horizon Spica , but I can see that my Earth will never touch your Sky I'll watch the Sun till my eyes sting Looking for your spirit to move You...Read the rest...

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...

These days I'm a double agent Nothing exciting like being a spy I'm just living two very different lives at the same time I don't know who I am from one moment to the next Will you see me...Read the rest...

Numbness poisoned flowers spooky nights serenaded with chattered cowers, wounded grasp cascaded panicked voices bloomed mother's smile paraded with gleams doomed, yearning hopeless answers as death roamed. ...Read the rest...

Praying It was just yesterday, his love was a quiet smile, embracing the faith, the sigh, like a heart who can see, past the ugly in me, through the expanse of shadows, pouring over my naked palms, awakening dreams in a heart, who is...Read the rest...

Her whispers of "love," a suffocating embrace, She claimed I was her air, her very space. Blinded, I clung to a love's sweet charade, Ignoring whispers, the warnings that frayed. Smiles, kisses, a tapestry brightly spun, Purpose bloomed, a battle...Read the rest...