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Best Elegiac Lyric Poems

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Premium Member My Broken Heart
  "Loved you then.  Love you still. 
Always have, and always will."

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Categories: grief, heart, love,
Form: Elegiac Lyric



My Father, My Dad
DEDICATED 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 Born
In 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
Premium Member Requiem For a Seahorse
On 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 Victim
DEDICATED 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 Child
A 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 Song
I 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 Ribs
They 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 Ones
These 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, but
You 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 To
It 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 Un
United 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
Premium Member Translation of the Windmills of Your Mind By T Wignesan
Translation 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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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: autumn, destiny, heartbroken, lost
Form: Elegiac Lyric
African Dream
Which 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

Book: Reflection on the Important Things