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Memoriam Poems - Poems about Memoriam
Memoriam Poems - Examples of all types of poems about memoriam to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read
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The River Made Of Tears
I walk along the river bank to where my family home once stood There's nothing here but mud and rock and memories from childhood It wasn't time that wore it down but water on one fateful day Helene...
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Michael Wise
Categories:
death, grief, in memoriam,
Form:
Rhyme
The Rip
A line of waves begin their run to shore, lifting, rising up and flaring cobra like as if preparing to strike, gliding forward until the shallows down them and they fall, deflating to a withering crawl up the incline of a...
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Paul Willason
Categories:
death, family, in memoriam,
Form:
Free verse
Buried feelings
And then one day, I chose to start, A journey deep into her heart. To search for reasons that tore her apart, To heal the wounds, mend the scarred. To my surprise, a...
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Laxika Vishnoi
Categories:
in memoriam,
Form:
Rhyme
The Timid Baker of Our Town
In a quiet town, there lived young Tommy, Though folks called him “coward,” he was never balmy. His baked goods were famous, a delight to all, But when trouble arose, he would...
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Frank Mashina
Categories:
memoriam,
confidence, conflict, courage, in
Form:
Narrative
Friendshio
You may have scars ,not all are seen, but some are deep within, you always smile through every day, I don’t know where to begin. Youre my hero, my tride and true, my confident and...
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Rachael Bennett
Categories:
memoriam,
appreciation, best friend, blessing,
Form:
Rhyme
In Absentia
She hears herself in the distance confess to undying love. So out of touch with loyal love to self. The unholy ghost of him demystified in mid-urn. He is neither near, nor far. No grave in which to turn in rage, even if he...
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Aqua Marine
Categories:
memoriam,
bereavement, betrayal, death, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
23 Is Too Young To Die
When I found out you died I scrambled and panicked. Not because you were gone, but needing proof of your presence. I checked the last texts and tore up my bed I want to throw. up. From the last...
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Megan McGill
Categories:
memoriam,
anger, death, death of
Form:
Free verse
Moment's
Moment's Poem Lionel Derbyshire Children of the dead left behind Their young rue and mourn new grief Looking forwards to nothings The road ahead is a long why Lost on despondent paths Bereft raw and fearing worst They are seated in heartbreak In dolor times...
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Lionel Derbyshire
Categories:
memoriam,
absence, deep, feelings, grief,
Form:
Free verse
gangster and moll
they were the club’s power couple Fred was the owner of the Gaslight Lounge where men showed they were men and guns settled things in disturbing ways Shelly had walked in on a Tuesday six months ago with her azure...
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Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
in memoriam,
Form:
Narrative
A Man Of Hull
One of our local heroes: his record of try’s in a season has still not been beaten. Jack Harrison VC, MC A Temporary Gentleman Not really the right sort Just a common school master Who played professional sport, But he was a...
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Terry Ireland
Categories:
conflict, courage, in memoriam,
Form:
Rhyme
His Gift
God made her as his gift and she, once laid beside the luscious, tempting limbs, acceded to profane acts under God’s Sacred Tree and slurped the ill-timed juice, the god-damned seed. She gave him some; and he did not...
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Dee Zane
Categories:
memoriam,
bible, confusion, creation, death,
Form:
Blank verse
a shameless risk taking gambler
a shameless bluffer he won at poker and twenty-one an audacious risk-taker brazen, brave, and bold daring to do what most would not my grandfather-in-law, the gambler who lost his house to a bad hand of cards in the thirties...
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Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
in memoriam,
Form:
Free verse
leonard baileys tombstone
Leonard Bailey’s tombstone was cryptic “one gathered in unison of solitude” some thought they had solved the riddle was it devised by Leonard himself or his wife? It was inscrutable to most. Very few thought they understood it. No one agreed. Best...
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Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
in memoriam,
Form:
Free verse
Some tears will never dry
Can this stream of tears ever dry? It just won't stop the more I tried! The spherics of its wetness just got bigger the more I cried! Each of its drop is hot enough to bake me a...
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Maclawrence Famuyiwa
Categories:
memoriam,
bereavement, death, farewell, in
Form:
Free verse
Mama's Last Scene
I see her eyes close I also see her tears roll Down in her death bed....
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Hugo Sarvida Jr.
Categories:
death, in memoriam, life,
Form:
Senryu
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