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- Michele Meleen
- Mixed Holiday Messages. Trying to celebrate holidays after the death of a loved one can feel confusing with all the well-wishes. This short poem shares how those Christmas wishes can feel for someone who's grieving.
- Seasonal Sorrow. Holiday bereavement poems can be about an actual holiday or the time surrounding it. This long poem is great for supporting a grieving friend because it shows you understand that coping with grief during the holidays extends far beyond the actual gatherings.
- Darling, the Love of My Life. Inspired by the classic Christmas song, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, this poem speaks about grief and hope in a slightly humorous way to lighten your spirit.
- All I Want for Christmas. Poems about grief and healing during the holidays are most meaningful when they come from the perspective of the deceased like in this Christmas bereavement poem.
- The holiest of all holidays are those. Kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart, When the full river of feeling overflows;
- We Remember Them. At the rising sun and at its going down; We remember them. At the blowing of the wind and in the chill of winter; We remember them. At the opening of the buds and in the rebirth of spring; We remember them.
- I will Light Candles this Christmas. I will light Candles this Christmas; Candles of joy despite all sadness, Candles of hope where despair keeps watch,
- That time. I thought I could not. go any closer to grief. without dying. I went closer, and I did not die. Surely God. had his hand in this, as well as friends.
Dec 1, 2020 · As we inch toward the holidays, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith shares how she's processing grief, a subject at the center of much of her work.
- Kat Chow
Apr 12, 2023 · Emotional poems about grief during the holidays, capturing the longing, memories, and hope for healing.
Feb 10, 2018 · Dylan Thomas, ‘ A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London ’. Written during WWII when London was frequently being bombed by the Germans, this poem – as its title makes clear – rejects the usual response to death, especially the death of a young girl.
The best poems about grief, such as W.H. Auden's "Funeral Blues," Emily Dickinson's "Because I could not stop for Death," Dylan Thomas's "Do not go gentle into that good night," Maya Angelou's "When Great Trees Fall," and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven," serve as poignant reminders that grief is a shared human experience.
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Oct 1, 2024 · Use these grief poems as mantras for yourself or share them with your loved ones who are grieving this holiday season. Remember, you are not alone.
