Poems about Grief, Loss and Bereavement
#grief
Poetry about loss, bereavement and grief. The terrible pain of losing a loved one, conveyed through poetry. Grief poems also include poetry about trying to overcome feelings of loss.
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nothing
Nothing
Two o'clock this Wednesday afternoon
protected by tall walls, but I have to go
inside
the sun is too hot
It is about getting a deep, lasting tan
my vanity has no limit
gave me skin cancer
I will not write anything today,
weaning myself from this feverish addiction
My internal conversation is as argumentative
as the old Jew I met in Leeds
I will think of nothing!
Sadly, I fail to stop this stream of consciousness
a lava bubbling from its crater
The smell of sulphur of rejected thoughts
that will prove me...
Two o'clock this Wednesday afternoon
protected by tall walls, but I have to go
inside
the sun is too hot
It is about getting a deep, lasting tan
my vanity has no limit
gave me skin cancer
I will not write anything today,
weaning myself from this feverish addiction
My internal conversation is as argumentative
as the old Jew I met in Leeds
I will think of nothing!
Sadly, I fail to stop this stream of consciousness
a lava bubbling from its crater
The smell of sulphur of rejected thoughts
that will prove me...
#anxiety
#apathy
#boredom
#fear
#grief
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Watching you fade
I watched you leave me mentally in your eyes
While the white in your eyes starts to slowly turn yellow
The bruises you left on my heart from watching you drink your life away
The being dragged physically because your heart and head weren’t in the same place
Watching you drink away my love for you
You left me with tears in my eyes and empty beer cans everywhere
I can’t even move them
It’s the only thing I remember of you since it’s the only thing you did around me
I miss sober you
But god am i relieved of the drunk you being gone
While the white in your eyes starts to slowly turn yellow
The bruises you left on my heart from watching you drink your life away
The being dragged physically because your heart and head weren’t in the same place
Watching you drink away my love for you
You left me with tears in my eyes and empty beer cans everywhere
I can’t even move them
It’s the only thing I remember of you since it’s the only thing you did around me
I miss sober you
But god am i relieved of the drunk you being gone
#grief
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love that couldn't' be
The man boy, that once chased love
the Girl found that couldn't be
a chance took lost in a childish dream
deep was that committed heart
never had a chance to even start
bound by a covenant to never fail
half a life some great and others gone mad
no longer those dream to conceive
lost in darkness never to breathe
what will tomorrow bring
not the love that was that spring
that love is still he
time will give way new love
one she will will surly bring
willing is that man to take heed
...
the Girl found that couldn't be
a chance took lost in a childish dream
deep was that committed heart
never had a chance to even start
bound by a covenant to never fail
half a life some great and others gone mad
no longer those dream to conceive
lost in darkness never to breathe
what will tomorrow bring
not the love that was that spring
that love is still he
time will give way new love
one she will will surly bring
willing is that man to take heed
...
#bittersweet
#confusion
#fear #grief
#fear #grief
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Saying Goodbye - NaPoWriMo 26
Along the shingled beach
past where we had used to walk,
and where I would have been ahead,
now down towards the shore
under a grey
and slightly melancholy sky,
here we each say a few words
I say
"Goodbye Grandma"
but hope she'll always be with me,
towards the incoming waves
to let the sea claim her ashes
So that she and Grandad
and other now-past-on friends
can all be together,
and in my memory.
past where we had used to walk,
and where I would have been ahead,
now down towards the shore
under a grey
and slightly melancholy sky,
here we each say a few words
I say
"Goodbye Grandma"
but hope she'll always be with me,
towards the incoming waves
to let the sea claim her ashes
So that she and Grandad
and other now-past-on friends
can all be together,
and in my memory.
#death
#grief
#NaPoWriMo2024
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Precious
For thirty-one years
it encircled
my left ring finger.
Smooth band
of ten carat gold.
Repeatedly scratched
and like ocean glass
polished over.
Symbolic of our
union,
our microcosmic
institution.
Ever brilliant
no matter if
the hand gets battered or dirty.
Emblematic
of ostensible fidelity
A burnished beacon
throwing a signal
that this port is full,
all docks are taken.
Though seeming
to become
a part of my anatomy,
With a few
carefully chosen words.
It has...
it encircled
my left ring finger.
Smooth band
of ten carat gold.
Repeatedly scratched
and like ocean glass
polished over.
Symbolic of our
union,
our microcosmic
institution.
Ever brilliant
no matter if
the hand gets battered or dirty.
Emblematic
of ostensible fidelity
A burnished beacon
throwing a signal
that this port is full,
all docks are taken.
Though seeming
to become
a part of my anatomy,
With a few
carefully chosen words.
It has...
#breakup
#grief
#love
#NaPoWriMo2024
#symbolism
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Goodbye Isn't Final
No goodbye
Is truly final
For destiny
Hands out favors
Unlike a
Cop who
Passes out
His menacing
tickets
Is truly final
For destiny
Hands out favors
Unlike a
Cop who
Passes out
His menacing
tickets
#breakup
#grief
#IMissYou
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7x7
I muttered prayers
to open stars
on meth strained week-with-no-sleep
evenings trying to get some bearing
on what I wanted
stained clothes and icy pavements
melted asphalt in the summer
the stench of it cloying and thick
my own body caked in a miasma
of sweat and unclean
I opened my wrists to scrawl semantics
write to tear the demons of thought from my psyche try to make sense of what I am
where I came from
all the scars
fractures and moments
are a kaleidoscope of broken
that were...
to open stars
on meth strained week-with-no-sleep
evenings trying to get some bearing
on what I wanted
stained clothes and icy pavements
melted asphalt in the summer
the stench of it cloying and thick
my own body caked in a miasma
of sweat and unclean
I opened my wrists to scrawl semantics
write to tear the demons of thought from my psyche try to make sense of what I am
where I came from
all the scars
fractures and moments
are a kaleidoscope of broken
that were...
#confusion
#grief
#regret #shame
#regret #shame
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Uncovered
It's as simple as
I love you,
and yet it feels
like a conundrum,
a crossword
with answered questions
and no blank spaces,
so I fumble my way through,
but fail to convey,
yet again that
which should be simple.
So while you read this
I just want you to know,
that you are still the giant
who split mountains
and discovered something eternal,
even if it was left in your wake
I love you,
and yet it feels
like a conundrum,
a crossword
with answered questions
and no blank spaces,
so I fumble my way through,
but fail to convey,
yet again that
which should be simple.
So while you read this
I just want you to know,
that you are still the giant
who split mountains
and discovered something eternal,
even if it was left in your wake
#FallingInLove
#grief
#hope #love
#hope #love
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6x7
used to wondered if
you could leash a wolf
then I found the texture of your words
they hit me as a howl to a shrouded moon
a call to black urges that crawl
through the psyche in lycanthropic torment
the crackle of brush through the dark
when we run through the night
the waft of prey as we flee humanity
join the fray of our wilder natures
the scent of you
overpowers reason
I want to pin you to the ground
growl at your throat
until you yield
until you bend and twist
beneath my...
you could leash a wolf
then I found the texture of your words
they hit me as a howl to a shrouded moon
a call to black urges that crawl
through the psyche in lycanthropic torment
the crackle of brush through the dark
when we run through the night
the waft of prey as we flee humanity
join the fray of our wilder natures
the scent of you
overpowers reason
I want to pin you to the ground
growl at your throat
until you yield
until you bend and twist
beneath my...
#ForbiddenLove
#grief
#ignorance #temptation
#ignorance #temptation
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When Hearts Divide
I miss you,
Like the tide misses the moon
I miss you.
My surface does not move,
I am still, stagnant,
yearning for your pull.
Like the tide misses the moon
I miss you.
My surface does not move,
I am still, stagnant,
yearning for your pull.
#breakup
#grief
#hurt #love
#hurt #love
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unblind
#grief
#love
#lust #obsession
#lust #obsession
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In the calm before the last night.
Leaves twirl in the cool damp night air after the rainstorm.
Streetlights are dim in the fog that has settled.
But kai wasn't in bed.
He was alone as usual. Adrift in chemicals natural and not.
This was it all.
This is the best of life.
One unfaithful friend after another but now mark too?
Can't be.
So our man walked the wet streets and was lost, consumed in sounds.
But the streets were silent that night.
And then the calm broke into an evil in the air.
As if the world said: this one. Tonight. That way.
Who could say no? ...
Streetlights are dim in the fog that has settled.
But kai wasn't in bed.
He was alone as usual. Adrift in chemicals natural and not.
This was it all.
This is the best of life.
One unfaithful friend after another but now mark too?
Can't be.
So our man walked the wet streets and was lost, consumed in sounds.
But the streets were silent that night.
And then the calm broke into an evil in the air.
As if the world said: this one. Tonight. That way.
Who could say no? ...
#death
#grief
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DU Poetry : Poems about Grief, Loss and Bereavement