Loss Poems - Page 2

21. A Triolet Of Heartbreak

• By Ann D. Stevenson
• Published by Family Friend Poems July 2021 with permission of the Author.

Why did you have to go away
and leave me with a broken heart.
I prayed and prayed that you would stay,
why did you have to go away.

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22. One Art

Famous Poem

• By Elizabeth Bishop

The art of losing isn’t hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

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23. Sometimes In Our Lives

• By Amber Carrico
• Published by Family Friend Poems June 2018 with permission of the Author.

Sometimes in our lives
we feel a great deal of pain
because we lose someone special.
These feelings we can't explain.

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24. Cassidy

• By Danny Blackburn
• Published by Family Friend Poems July 2011 with permission of the Author.

Does just seeing me come your way make you smile?
Have I ever done something silly, something that made you laugh?
Does the sound of my voice give you joy?
Does the touch of my hand give you warmth in your heart?

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25. Grandpa

• By Katie Thompson
• Published by Family Friend Poems February 2008 with permission of the Author.

The other day I lost you.
How will I ever make it through?

I had to watch you be in all that pain.

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26. Break, Break, Break

Famous Poem

• By Alfred Tennyson

Break, break, break,
On thy cold gray stones, O sea!
And I would that my tongue could utter
The thoughts that arise in me.

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