Loss & Grief Haiku Poems

the dead are not far--
just beyond the candle's flame
their faces flicker

Gail Greenwood Read poem →

The sobbing half moon
lost in a starless night sky
watches predators

Lynette Esposito Read poem →

Killdeer cries and runs
from nest, feigns an injured wing
chicks stay motionless

Susan Won Read poem →

The Wren's mourning cry-
Ballad of loss and ruin
Crushed eggs blight the ground

Debbie Walker-lass Read poem →

Leaves loosed from anchors
drifting in varied displays
death's boldest presents.

John Kneal Read poem →

hear flowers whisper
I am beauty I am death
pressed between pages

Tim Mueller Read poem →

door awning agleam
icicle diminishing
precocious spring tears

Robert Hunt Read poem →

Hands of the dying
Cold as ice, yet full of warmth
A cry rents the air

Lin Girsaw Read poem →

Plowed fields await seeds
Swirling clouds of ocher dust
Parched till the sky cries

Suzanne Cottrell Read poem →

Pink blanket, soft skin
Today you wear a white gown.
Oh, how I'll miss you.

Luann Lewis Read poem →

Amber leaves shudder
a thieving hand of bright wind
picking death's pocket

Thomas Festa Read poem →

March wind blows petals.
One sticks to tear stained chapped cheek
content to be held.

Krista Genevieve Farris Read poem →

grandmother's journal
inscribed names nourished with tears
white lotus rising

Patricia Pella Read poem →

Adrift, weeping sea
violet sky, zeal & lust
but a dolent kiss

Manny Turner Read poem →

plain-dead flowers fade
but she nurses each dry stalk
still more tenderly

Jonathan Pettit Read poem →

The virus rages
Same old song of solitude
Tears in a bubble

Susan Kahn Read poem →

heavy clouds descend
beach plunges into gray gloom
sky is lost at sea

Nells Wasilewski Read poem →

Faded firefly grave
Moonlight in our sky above
Rusty iron fence

Madeline Lee-mabe Read poem →

Before every drought
buffalo remain stoic,
for tears have value.

Robert Bilinski Read poem →

Chilly dank darkness
Moss upon stone upon stone
Cries of broken men

Eddie Argauer Read poem →

flowers we gathered
dying slowly in vases
they remember dirt

Dennis Herrell Read poem →

Grant us this sweetness,
This sorrow, our daily bread,
'til death comes for us.

Lawrence Shielding Read poem →

Loneliness visits
Featureless, absent figure
Needing your embrace

Hannah-rose Tristram Read poem →

Fresh pigeons this year,
large and loud and with a plan:
Dominance or death

Hege A. Jakobsen Lepri Read poem →

farewell to winter-
old trees adorn new garments
spring's ribbons of light

Melissa Laussmann Read poem →

From her sad mouth curled
songs of love lived, lost, longed for.
Linking mud and stars.

Hannah-rose Tristram Read poem →

Dead trees darkened skies
Winter silhouettes invert
Sparklers in July

Nicholas Campbell Read poem →

damp-blackened branches
flooded woods brimming with drink
death rot sharp, blooming

Jennifer Montgomery Read poem →

Painted smile faded
Aging dolls with sightless eyes
Dusty lost to time

Shirley Smothers Read poem →

Before winters cull
And the fallen are forgot
Summer sounds farewell

Stephen Horrocks Read poem →

touch is a lost breeze
grazing the, now, goosefleshed skin
prickly neck hairs rise

Timothy P Flynn Read poem →

walking hand in hand
yellow road beneath our feet
soon we say goodbye

Steve Denehan Read poem →

hummingbird hovers
over flower's sweet nectar...
lost in the moment

Susan Gentry Read poem →

rainstorm approaching
chipmunks forage in dark mulch
mourning doves take flight

Sandra Barnett Read poem →

drowning in a flood
salty tears burn eyes rimmed red
torrential downpour

Chasity Gaines Read poem →

The woodpecker drums
On the aging maple tree
A long lost message?

Jeanne Nakjavani Read poem →