Grief Poems
Grief poems to ease the suffering and loneliness of loss. The following are excerpts from grief poems. Please click the links to read the full poems.
The Well of Grief by David Whyte
Those who will not slip beneath
the still surface on the well of grief,
…
will never know the source from which we drink,
the secret water, cold and clear,
…
Stand still.
The trees ahead and the bushes beside you Are not lost.
The Uses of Sorrow by Mary Oliver
Someone I loved once
gave me a box full of darkness.
It took me years to understand that
this, too, was a gift.
Starlings in Winter by Mary Oliver
I am thinking now
of grief, and of getting past it;
In Blackwater Woods by Mary Oliver
To live in this world
you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go.
Oh, the coming-out-of-nowhere moment
when, nothing
happens
no what-have-I-to-do-today-list