Grief Poetry

The tradition of Victorian mourning jewelry began with Queen Victoria after the death of her husband, Prince Albert. Without photography, mementos of personal remembrance were used to honor the dead so that their loved ones could commemorate their memory and keep their spirits close. Ashes were placed within rings, and necklaces were made out of hair, and the concept of death photography, small portraits of the deceased, were often encased behind glass. Wytovich's poetry explores the horror that breeds inside of the lockets, the quiet terror that hides in the center of the rings.

Steven Bates fires off another salvo of poems. He searches for and ponders the mutual, common ground. All these poems were written after his retirement from 18 years of military service. He shares his thoughts on depression, and life in general.

“The Darkness Man” is Yesenin’s last major poetic work. It expressed the mood of despair and horror in front of an incomprehensible reality, a dramatic feeling of the futility of any attempts to penetrate the mystery of existence.

A small collection of dark poetry.

Where Decay Sleeps lays 36 poems on the undertaker’s table, revealing to us the seven stages of decay: pallor mortis, algor mortis, rigor mortis, livor mortis, putrefaction, decomposition, and skeletonization. Listeners are summoned to walk the Gothic ruins of monsters, where death and decay lie sleeping.

This content is written in a poem format and tells the story of Black Americans and their journey from Africa to America.

A collection of 30 poems, Beneath My Skin is an exploration of the self, the mind (neurodivergent or otherwise), and the world. As in life, you'll find pain and sorrow within these poems, but also joy, silliness, love, and introspection.

Sämtliche Gedichte von Egon Schiele – lernen Sie die andere Seite des Genies kennen. Die kurzen Skizzen, meist einfache Sätze mit starker Suggestionskraft, kreieren eine Atmosphäre des Malerischen. Verstärkt wird dieser Eindruck durch die häufige und gezielte Verwendung von Farbadjektiven. Wenn Schiele schreibt, trennt er sich nicht von der Malerei, er versucht – im Gegenteil – seine Worte „rollrundschwarzglänzend“, „zittergün“ oder „rot“ anzumalen.

This honest and haunting collection of poems follows the loss of the poet’s only son to heroin addiction. St. Germain takes us through the stages of her grief and offers no false promises or simple answers. These narrative-driven poems are a compelling and compassionate look into addiction and the effect it has on a family.

“We lived overlooking the walls overlooking the cemetery.” So begins the title poem of this collection, whose recursive temporality is filled with living, grieving things, punctuated by an unseen world of roots, bodies, and concealed histories. Like a cemetery, too, The Milk Hours sets unlikely neighbors alongside each other: Hegel and Murakami, Melville and the Persian astronomer al-Sufi, enacting a transhistorical poetics even as it brims with intimacy.

This chapbook is a must-have for any listener who is interested in contemporary poetry that is unafraid to deal with complex topics in an honest and powerful way.

With the changing seasons comes this poetry audiobook all about the constant shifts in life. From love to love lost, the excitement of new relationships, along with relationships falling by the wayside and the pain of misfortune, these poems cover a wide variety of life experiences.

The poetry of Unbroken delicately and achingly takes listeners through author Julie Skon's vulnerable true story of finding young love, experiencing tragic loss to gun violence, the pain of grief, and the journey of seeking healing.

Ayse Balkos's first book, Come to Tower, is the poetry collection of a fresh voice of a renegade woman, angry, hopeful, strong, confused, clear and vulnerable. The poems are accompanied by Ash Gray’s beautiful tones of hummingbird Gibson acoustic guitar, dazzlingly honest, unpretentious and real journey of a soul.

A poem about consent.

Black Boy Say You: Help Mama, Lost Be Mind offers a modern take on spirituality and mental health and details the worries of a young Black boy that fears his mind wanders too far.

As my spirit and soul become corporeal, my heart becomes vulnerable to you. Take, eat, and drink it. Nourish your mind with words of encouragement, empowerment, love, and even grief. Take a moment to sip from the chalice of life and open your eyes to the untold journey ahead. Know that each phase of life comes with its own heaven and hell. I offer you the naked truth: that as humans, most times, we refuse to share, for fear of being ridiculed or taken advantage of. But on this day that my spoken words are made tangible, may they be a beacon to light your own path.

Inside each of us is a deep struggle, one that some embrace, and others ignore. This collection of deeply moving poems gives you a glimpse into the darkest place your mind can take you and shows the true struggle within one's own mind. Through pain and sorrow, this award-winning author connects her soul to yours in a beautiful melody of words that will leave you with a deeper insight than most are prepared for.

Outshine Your Pain is a book that brings hope to hearts recovering from emotional trauma. Poetry helps us heal these wounds, reassess the pain, accept it, observe it, and live with it for a bit without judging it. This approach is a form of art therapy, which will help in the healing process. This form of art therapy will aid in the recovery of emotional pain. It will lead the listener on a quest to discover the unknown within.

This poem consists of 11 stanzas of varying length, the first four of which were composed in 1802. These deal with the subject of death, a concept with which Wordsworth confesses to having struggled within childhood.