Elegy Poems | Elegy Examples

No one told me the moment you parted. My disheartened heart left the room the moment I turned the corner, and saw his golden badge as he nodded in comforting dismay. That day My heart learned the rhythm of grief Slow Sickly The kind that brings you past your knees, and drives you six feet underground. Who needs two burials in one day?...

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I am 15 years old. They say my mind is scattered stars, too many, too bright, too far apart. A sky that sparkles wildly, never settling into constellations. I try. God, I try. To sit still in a room that moves faster than me, to focus while my thoughts bounce like marbles down cathedral halls. The world whispers lazy while I carry lightning in my...

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I thought the layers of dust had settled over what used to be the togetherness of 'us,' and buried were our last tarnished traces. But today, I found your pictures in an album and my emotions started playing tricks on me. Thought I heard echoes of your timbered voice and even imagined your footsteps in the hall ...

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I opened it like a wound unwrapping itself, the envelope soft from time, your name trembling in a handwriting I had learned to forget. You said sorry. In ink, not voice. In past tense. As if my years of silence were a thing you could fold into a paragraph. I had already buried you in the quiet way people bury the living, not with dirt, but with detachment. I built...

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Ere break of day and dawns caress Till sunset lays our cares to rest We march and toil to gain what's true With burdens many, respites few And labor on with hope that may In some small measure light the way Of those dear ones in times accord Who carry close the treasured word Our presence left in some small part Indelibly writ upon...

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All i remember is her glaring kindness Her wanting love and attention from any source She had a beautiful toughness about her That strengthened all around her I did not know she had cancer I wish i would have had the opportunity to say some words of encouragement to her but it was to late Now I'm faced with...

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Today she left this earthly plane Finally freed from depression and pain My heart is heavy and I feel bereft Only sixty five years; too soon she left March 27 1960 - April 13 2025 Yesterday my dear baby sister passed away. ...

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Echoing Vibrations Form: Elegy Spiral Gate 3: Grief-Glyph | Memory Tone I. A whisper lingers where you stood, A sigh between the flame and wood. The sound of you has not decayed— It haunts the hush, not to dissuade. II. The pulse you left in quiet air Now hums through dreams I didn’t share. You did not end—you merely turned Into the light for which I yearned. III. Each...

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Heinous are the horrors in the rages of war after it makes its purchase of pawns. Brave are those following orders with a salute. Some will never see their homeland again for the reach of the reaper is relentless. He is a cimmerian chasing after souls, a stalwart fiend approaching in dark pursuit. I am a soldier trying to escape...

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The day they kidnapped you Was the day I found myself lost. I found myself mostly numb In a frosted layer of my own tears -- My eyes now dried out from Years of overuse. I've never missed something this badly, Even after losing my own dad. Sadly this takes the cake. I almost feel inhuman for feeling this way. But isn't that what I...

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I look to my right And there’s a bin of stuffed animals just like the one you bought me I look to my left And there’s your favorite flavor of ice cream I look down And I see your Nebraska sweatshirt I couldn’t let them throw away So I think maybe Just maybe And I look up. But there's no trace of you in...

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The bright in the daylight beacons shine; Beating hearts no longer a lined; The doctor M.E. has pronounced the vessel dead; Sorely he bled out after being pierced in the head; Now a corpse no longer shall he rise His spirit now with Father-God 04/03/25 Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2025© ...

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the snow undissolved amid my heart wanders eternal as does my avidity its difficult to accept “to move on to forget” six feet yet unreachable how will this feeling melt my everything lost tomorrow ‘we’ wander, separate, absent as I hang by the blistering icicle I want to accept but never forget will a 'farewell' do me as to liberty my tears frozen yet sentiments warm let our memories perpetual...

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Consider my grave your resting place too, An empathetic soul who rests here. Worry not poet, it haunts no more, Covered with maggots, I've rotted here for a while. These sockets are now emptied, I see nothing to judge. With my brains swallowed, I am no critique. Only bones adorning dirt and bugs. Justitia, you can call me. Lend me your ears and I'll...

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¿Hay alguien más leal que un perro? ¿¡Hay alguien que te espere en la puerta de tu casa moviendo su colita!? Aquel día a ese animalito al que alguna vez llame hijo no me esperaba más en la puerta de mi casa , pensé por un instante que se había escondido porque haci solíamos jugar pero...

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