Best Elegiac Lyric Poems
Below are the all-time best Elegiac Lyric poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of elegiac lyric poems written by PoetrySoup members
Categories:
grief, heart, love,
Form:
Elegiac Lyric
My Father, My DadDEDICATED TO MY FATHER, (R) COLONEL WILLIAM C. GODWIN / 1931 - 1998
My voice is weak, my hand falters
As I attempt to speak of my...
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Categories:
appreciation, dad, father, love,
Form:
Elegiac Lyric
An Elegy For a New BornIn the world of all comforts,
In the world of absolute care and affection,
In the world of motherhood.
Ten months I was basking, in my mother's...
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Categories:
absence, anxiety, grief, loss,
Form:
Elegiac Lyric
Requiem For a SeahorseOn a sultry, sizzling July day
I swear it happened just this way
In a tidal pool, a lifeless seahorse lay
He’d not galloped to meet his fate
But...
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Categories:
animal, inspiration,
Form:
Elegiac Lyric
Vietnam VictimDEDICATED TO MY FATHER, (R) COLONEL WILLIAM C. GODWIN / 1931 - 1998
Leaving for a year
to nightmare and fear
he came to say goodbye
or at least...
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Categories:
daughter, father, war,
Form:
Elegiac Lyric
Death - Not My ChildA kaleidoscope’s blossoms are not as awesome
as my child at every turn; watching his silences –
I burn, watching his movements – I yearn. ...
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Categories:
death, grief,
Form:
Elegiac Lyric
Pygmy Forest SongI lost you out there.
You never came on home.
I called for you and I called to you,
but you never came on home.
I lost you out...
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Categories:
death, farewell, goodbye, grief,
Form:
Elegiac Lyric
Crocked RibsThey have command on me
my posture has been so
since birth and even now
a grown up, no change
The back has followed
the legs are going there
why can’t...
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Categories:
fate, humanity, metaphor,
Form:
Elegiac Lyric
These Little OnesThese little children seen around
Have something in them mysterious
That thing adult cannot understand
‘Cause they are too child-like to impress
These little children play and conflict
They cry,...
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Categories:
children, satire, song,
Form:
Elegiac Lyric
You would not know, butYou would never know me,
But a theme you were of my dream,
Filled by love to the brim,
Unfulfilled that withered like cream.
You would never know me,
Nor...
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Categories:
love, remember,
Form:
Elegiac Lyric
Didn'T Mean ToIt was a heartfelt indulge of an act
The night like knights we lighted
Like a king yah served my want
Like a deal we moved on and...
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Categories:
art, heartbroken, lost love,
Form:
Elegiac Lyric
Ashurah(Every year in the lunar month of Muharram we Shia Muslims commemorate the brutal martyrdom of the grandson of our Holy prophet Muhammed (s.a.w) and...
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Categories:
history, islamic, remembrance day,
Form:
Elegiac Lyric
Requim For UnUnited Nations, United Nations
What an oxymoron!
What an oxymoron!!
The platitude goes-
‘United we stand’
In the UN,
How erect we stand!
How erect we stand!!
We are *****erectus
Aren’t we?
This genocide-friendly...
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Categories:
sorrow,
Form:
Elegiac Lyric
Translation of the Windmills of Your Mind By T WignesanTranslation of Les Moulins de mon Cœur-THE WINDMILLS OF YOUR MIND by T. Wignesan
(For the orignal text in French by Eddy MARNAY : see here...
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Categories:
autumn, destiny, heartbroken, lost
Form:
Elegiac Lyric
African DreamWhich is the real African dream?
building an independent continent?
decolonization of neocolonialism?
I think it is a no!
Which is the virgin African dream?
is it life of...
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Categories:
africa, inspirational, song,
Form:
Elegiac Lyric