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Mourning Poems - Poems about Mourning

Mourning Poems - Examples of all types of poems about mourning to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for mourning.
Premium Member Existence Enshrined
... The rhapsody of rainbow melts in morose mélange, the concoction of colors bleeds in silence, sucked out of crumbled core of cloud, soothing rain rinses the stains on broken hearts, sha......Read the rest...
Categories: mourning, analogy, life, sorrow,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member My Childhood Home
...This poem was mistakenly deleted my apologies . Wild, natural, without care you stand hidden, unnoticed, a secret. Brambles briars bluebells dance Wild flowers grow. Haunted laughter, echoe......Read the rest...
Categories: mourning, break up, emotions, farewell,
Form: Free verse
Rendezvous on Rainbow Bridge
...In days of sorrow, Showering you with kisses Was a bridge To a tranquil tomorrow. Through nights so long and deep, Embracing you brought forth A dawn of hope, Like feeling of sunlight......Read the rest...
Categories: mourning, animal, dark, death, i
Form: Free verse
True Love Calls
...The mourning dove’s perch coo signals he’s alone: Calling to another as a life-long mate, searching to find a love he can call his own and form a bond so strong it shall not abate. Death cannot......Read the rest...
Categories: mourning, funny love, hyperbole, lost
Form: Ottava rima
Blank Space Craft
...The dark spill muddied my canvas: Made its mess, dislocated light And thoughtful lines to the edges While it claimed the center for spite. It seemed like all was wrecked. The time I'd wor......Read the rest...
Categories: mourning, divorce, perspective, recovery from,
Form: Rhyme



silent cathedral
...My shadowed heart a silent cathedral Only abandoned asylum have ground Oh twilight lady fingers made of ravens Carrying all the forgotten memories, unspoken dreams Haunted church bell rings, the ......Read the rest...
Categories: mourning, anxiety, cry, death, evil,
Form: Free verse
In From The Rain
...These aren't empty sentences filled with nouns & verbs but is a testimony of spirit The witness sits inside peering from behind spirited eyes of vengeance Mad at a world that's full of cattle ......Read the rest...
Categories: mourning, introspection, perspective, philosophy, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
One Redeemer
...In life's relentless gale, I stand frail, Each strike kindles a storm of wail. Through sleepless nights, I roam in grief, As love's illusion fades, like a withering leaf. The peace of heaven, a......Read the rest...
Categories: mourning, christian, deep, forgiveness, gospel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Every Dead Soldier Swears
...Carry your heart with me ( I carry it in my heart ) I am never without it Across the seas in the killing fields of France, Bellowing cries, suffering, Man's dying dance, Ceaseless shells rain ......Read the rest...
Categories: mourning, death, love, soldier, war,
Form: Abecedarian
Death of a lake
...A lake, landmark to locate easily my nest like home, a center to ever widening concentric city, lies without life, no fishes, no ducks, no mosquitoes, not even microbes exist within. Li......Read the rest...
Categories: mourning, pollution,
Form: Other
Premium Member Had
... Yes once, I had a love now, I sigh ! He flew above and I weep a mourning dove ! My grief deep death, oh why ... memories I keep !......Read the rest...
Categories: mourning, lost love,
Form: Other
Jamais Vu
..."NA" poetry contest Sponsor: Ink Empress 3rd Place. Jamais Vu ~ "The feeling of being unfamiliar with something that is familiar. The opposite of deja vu." These days, life is shroud in a fog......Read the rest...
Categories: mourning, allusion, angst, growth, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Another Midnight Massacre
...All through wee hours of the morning Laminga wail their missing persons, mourning And the track road leading into Amurum forest Stained with droplets of blood down the terraced Searching into sun......Read the rest...
Categories: mourning, violence, war,
Form: Epic
Under the tattered cloak of the past night
...Under the tattered cloak of the past night, I awoke as a traveler in the shadow of a compassless vessel, Navigating the black river of an unknown destiny. And behold, I suddenly got lost In a cho......Read the rest...
Categories: mourning, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member leau de la vie
... I’m … (thus told) oft’ purveyor of a pen drowning in the anguish of the heart … bulletin: love - not always love love - always pain always - all ways … wherever, whatever, WHOever the ......Read the rest...
Categories: mourning, analogy, appreciation, wisdom, writing,
Form: Free verse

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