Poetry About Loss of a Loved One

Grief is a landscape we all must navigate, a path that winds through memory and the heavy weight of what is no longer there. These poems do not seek to 'fix' loss, but to sit with it, acknowledging the profound impact of those who have left their signatures on our hearts.

This collection offers a space for reflection, providing words for the moments when the world feels too quiet and our own voices fail.

Featured Poems

The Empty Chair

Capturing the heavy silence of an absence.

The house is full of echoes now, the ghosts of voices in the hall.

We learn to live with the 'when' and 'how', watching the long shadows fall on the space we shared, we know not how.

- Lydia Moore

The Threads of Memory

On the enduring connection that survives the grave.

You are not gone, but woven in to every tapestry I weave.

The ending is where the myths begin, in the quiet moments when I grieve and find your light beneath my skin.

- Jameson Kent

The Silent Dialogue

Continuing the conversation after the words have stopped.

I catch myself asking you questions while I'm driving the car or making the tea.

The answer isn't a voice in the room, but a sudden peace that falls over me, a familiar light in the afternoon gloom.

- Elena Vance

Classic Voices

Remember

by Christina Rossetti (1862)

A poignant request for remembrance and eventual peace.

Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land.

O Captain! My Captain! (Excerpt)

by Walt Whitman (1865)

A famous elegy on the death of a leader and a loved one.

Exult O shores, and ring O bells! But I with mournful tread,

Walk the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.

Funeral Blues (Excerpt)

by W.H. Auden (1936)

A modern classic of total, overwhelming grief.

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone.

Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad.

Micro Verses

What is grief, if not love with no place to go?

- Jamie Anderson

Grief is the price we pay for love.

- Queen Elizabeth II

What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness.

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Absence is just a different way of being present.

- Julian Thorne

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