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Poems about Loss
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He held his breath, / and let the pain sink in, / / "Its been a long time coming." / The room began to spin / / / Cornered, / Questioning, / Incapable. / / The little pencil pusher / has been pining the wrong / su
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As the thunders and rains ride in from the sea / We are left to part from what could be / A home, a new life for young and old / Yet the drive to survive has again fallen to the mold / Nearly three years to the day, but not one has past / That w
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08-20-08 / / / / Another friend has come and passed, / / but our memories will always last. / / Hangin out with you was so much fun! / / Sadly I know that time is done. / / Oh man I miss my friends so much! / / I guess
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The gastric gents in the old folk’s home / Cope with life to a tolerable degree / And the widows with sagging mouths of foam / Always looking out, but they never see / The end of the long and much winding road. / They’ve never been closer to it
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I can only blame my own dam self / for being so lame and selfish / naïve was I at that time / noob was I for thinking you'll be mine / /
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It seems you have lust for my bleeding, / it's my heart your now defeating. / In my skin you left a hot gash, / you walk away as I slowly turn to ash. / The time we had, why couldn't it last? / It doesn't matter, now it's in the past. / You co
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There are but a few moments in a young woman's life that can later be recalled with such clarity, that it is like the moment never passed.
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I've been lost in the spaces between / love and your mystery to me. / The good times are not gone. / I've been in a limbo I can't explain / our happiness, our home. / / You take away my troubles, / you fight away my grief. / Stealing away
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I could call out for help / But there's nobody there / Completely submerged, / Now I'm straining for air. / And suddenly all my light has disappeared / The thing that I've come most to fear / Has taken the place of happiness in my heart / Lo
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by marcusmoore
169 words, 4 comments,
on Jul 10 7:38 AM. In Adult, Love, Free Verse, Rant, Life, Rhyme, Weird, Alliteration, Loss, Lost Love
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I used to remember your number by heart. / But when I tried to call it the other day, / I could not recall past the first 3 digits. / I guess that's what is called moving on, / or do they call it blocking out? / I can't say that I know the diffe
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Dull emergency room lights flicker / While the anxious flip through magazines / There’s distant clamor from the nurses’ station / And I smell their rubbing alcohol and latex / / None jump at the occasional child’s cry / Nor do eyes change foc
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Dead to me / What do these words mean? / Dead to me / Alive and kicking, yet somehow quieted / Erased, forgotten / Dead to me / No more failed promises / No longer waiting / Dead to me / Truth unveiled / Put behind me / Not listening
by oxymoron270
47 words,
on Jun 12 4:11 PM. In angst, anger, free verse, life, rant, sadness, loss, hate, rage, anguish
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Dear Laura, / / It's been quite a while / Since the last time we spoke / About seven or eight years / And I wish I could tell you / How my
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We cluster around the laptop / Reading words written on a screen / Entranced as before us they plop / Spiraling on, they are so obscene /
by oxymoron270
257 words, 2 comments,
on Jun 5 11:46 AM. In rhyme, life, personal, sad, society, thoughts, hate, loss, rage, war
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With obsession he in time killed
He formed plans incredibly skilled
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And when the day came, the final white night
His victims were ready without any fright
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"I could have noticed problems had grown
I could've seen it, she was skin and bone"
by oxymoron270
239 words, 1 comment,
on May 29 3:00 PM. In dark, sad, depression, anorexia, story, life, rhyme, loss, suicide
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But this is proof we remain in unkind weather
For a holiday is all that brings us here together
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by marcusmoore
114 words, 31 comments,
on Apr 20 1:26 AM. In Rhyme, Lost Love, Love, Loss, Sad, Angst, Life, Personal, Adult, Pain, Anger, Abuse
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A damaged beauty so / intriguing, she made / a gay man question his / sexuality. / / Made a folk-singer, / song-writer call her / a "Rolli
by marcusmoore
162 words, 24 comments,
on Mar 7 8:34 AM. In Life, Rhyme, True, Addiction, Fame, Sad, Death, Society, Alliteration, Loss
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by marcusmoore
274 words, 11 comments,
on Mar 7 5:46 AM. In Adult, Adult Love, Life, Loss, Love, Lyrics, Personal, Rhyme, Hate, Rage, Pain
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by riveralex
287 words, 15 comments,
on Feb 22 10:55 AM. In Adult, Angst, Dark, Love, Lost love, loss, Raw, Family, Life, Pain
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I was trying to remember / what loving you was like... / one breath between us / star-drenched nights; / / Summer evenings at the cottage, / crickets and the moon / dinner and a glass of wine, / our candle-lit room; / / Small rustlin
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Could somebody tell me why we're here? / This war is not mine, no ending seems near / / We carry out our orders every day / to fight for o
by LeftTurnsOnly
259 words, 20 comments,
on Jan 29 7:16 PM. In Life, Love, Rhyme, Sad, Pain, Death, Loss, War, Family
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by marcusmoore
236 words, 2 comments,
on Jan 25 2:36 AM. In Adult, Angst, Dark, Rhyme, Life, Lyrics, Personal, Sad, Addiction, Pain, Abuse, Loss
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Just once I'd like to feel something unmixed, / Simple. / Clear again. Ambivalence is / Here again, / My most constant friend. / It's how
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