Poems about loss

• But A Cookie

  You told me to decorate this cookie / Based upon how I feel / With Reese’s peanut butter cups / And candy corn, and frosting, and sprinkles

  by oxymoron270 128 words, 10 comments, on Oct 24 5:27 PM 2008. In Personal, Sad, Life, Hope, Thoughts, Depression, Sadness, Loss
• the luck of the young

  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

  by dirty clean poet 105 words, on Aug 17 9:58 AM 2008. In Rhyme, Hope, Sonnet, Sadness, Loss
• Naive To Believe

  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

  by marcusmoore 106 words, 4 comments, on Aug 13 8:32 PM 2008. In Rhyme, Love, Life, Personal, Lost Love, Loss, Pain
• Exfoliating An Ex

  by marcusmoore 169 words, 28 comments, on Jul 10 7:38 AM 2008. In Adult, Love, Free Verse, Rant, Life, Rhyme, Weird, Alliteration, Loss, Lost Love
• An Emotional Con

  by marcusmoore 114 words, 37 comments, on Apr 20 1:26 AM 2008. In Rhyme, Lost Love, Love, Loss, Sad, Angst, Life, Personal, Adult, Pain, Anger, Abuse
• Lament For Edie

  A damaged beauty so / intriguing, she made / a gay man question his / sexuality. / / Made a folk-singer, / song-writer call her / a "Rolling Stone". / The vanity. / Every girl from Jersey, / wants her cheek bones. / / A vulnerabl

  by marcusmoore 163 words, 33 comments, on Mar 7 8:34 AM 2008. In Life, Rhyme, True, Addiction, Fame, Sad, Death, Society, Alliteration, Loss
• GoodBye Whore

  by marcusmoore 274 words, 14 comments, on Mar 7 5:46 AM 2008. In Adult, Adult Love, Life, Loss, Love, Lyrics, Personal, Rhyme, Hate, Rage, Pain
• Still

  by riveralex 287 words, 15 comments, on Feb 22 10:55 AM 2008. In Adult, Angst, Dark, Love, Lost love, loss, Raw, Family, Life, Pain
• I Was Going To

  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

  by riveralex 90 words, 18 comments, on Feb 5 3:17 PM 2008. In Love, Sad, Life, Personal, Lost love, Loss
• Special Things

  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, 24 comments, on Jan 29 7:16 PM 2008. In Life, Love, Rhyme, Sad, Pain, Death, Loss, War, Family
• A Day in The Life Of Me

  by marcusmoore 236 words, 3 comments, on Jan 25 2:36 AM 2008. In Adult, Angst, Dark, Rhyme, Life, Lyrics, Personal, Sad, Addiction, Pain, Abuse, Loss
• Once

  Just once I'd like to feel something unmixed, / Simple. / Clear again. Ambivalence is / Here again, / My most constant friend. / It's how

  by riveralex 222 words, 18 comments, on Oct 27 8:30 PM 2007. In Personal, Life, Loss, Struggle, Age, Youth, Dark
• What you did

  by riveralex 135 words, 7 comments, on Aug 31 3:53 PM 2007. In Adult, Angst, Hope, Love, Dark, Pain, Loss