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Grief Poems to Ease the Pain and Loneliness of Loss

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,



“Lost” – by David Wagoner

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.

The Moment by Marie Howe

Oh, the coming-out-of-nowhere moment

when,   nothing

happens 

no what-have-I-to-do-today-list 

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