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Write an elegy about the death of something other than a person.
An elegy is a sad poem, traditionally expressing sorrow for someone who has passed away.
strawberryglass
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Did you have to leave me?
Did you have to go away?
Did you ever love me?
Did you ever want to stay?
I know connection seems so fleeting
Itās the past you choose to leave
I have one memory remaining
Itās one of your deceit
Each day my trust is fading
Each secret you are hiding
Enraged with all your hating
Each day my love is dying...
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Romance
Coconutblob/Rain
I am gone.
Canāt u feel it anymore?
Dazzling sunrises behind your eyesā¦
Sparking with excitement
Dripping from your hair like goldā¦
Did I cross a line I didnāt know you could draw?
I donāt think I get the joke?
Maybe I missed the punch-line a year ago?
If we are gone
please let me know
I could feel it drifting
like a branch towards a waterfall
Or maybe you were swimming while ...
Mikayla Smith
āO Depression,
Though you are in remission,
You ate away at my soul like a black cancer,
Degrading me,
Whispering in my ear that I am worthless
And that no one will ever love me like you do.
So I killed you with the little lavender pills
And is not only my confession,
But a bitter eulogy.
It is not your companions Anxiety and Low Self-Esteem at your graveside.
Nay, it is I, who spent many a-nigh...
Izzy
Today, I mourn the loss of my sanity
And what's become of me
I mourn the decaying synapses in my brain
broken and dismembered
A vivid untreated bloodstain
Today, I mourn my name
For its now said in shame
As I become a reluctant orphan
Of my brains making
Becoming a fragment, a smaller portion
Today, I cry crocodile tears
In realization of my worst fears
Speaking before myself
To my memories stuc...
Drama
KrissyKat
We gather here today, a mournful little crew,
For my ability to say "no," which is entirely through.
It died a quiet death, smothered by pure intent,
Victim of all the projects where my energy was spent.
I am cognitively Extroverted, I'm drawn to a new thrill,
I spread myself too thin, against my own free will.
I wanted all the achievement, I sought the positive impact,
Then my calendar became a d...
MK
My comfort for ten years and one
We saw each other in the pet shop booth
I stared at you and you stared at me
Both transfixed as it was meant to be
Through lovers, countries and loneliness
I could never truly be that, with me and my shadow
Such a happy soul, never questioning always loyal
By my side until the lockdown when I wished I had you the most
To spend more time instead of having to le...
gods little girl
She galloped through the meadow towards the shed
She galloped through the meadow away from the sick bed
She galloped through the meadow to check her dead she galloped through the meadow where her mama used to lay her head
She galloped through the meadow with her goodbye unsaid...
Mystery
MusefulHeartš«
Nothing feels happy once you get sick.
The leaves turn brown,
They fall to the ground,
And they never turn green again.
For a world that used to shine
To become matte and dull,
Is one of the greatest tragedies that comes, When life sucks out your soul.
Nothing is easy once you get sick.
When everyday there are needles inside of you,
And some days it is hard to move.
But the world keeps spinning ...
elaine
I will meet you at the graveyard gate, Where silence speaks, and time runs late.
Where you now rest beneath the stone, And I walk this path, aching and alone.
You lay there still, the world turned gray, Faced up to skies that stole you away.
A cold heart beats no more in chest, But in my soul, you've built your nest.
We talked of forever, of life hand in hand, Of dreams we'd build, of making a sta...
Just a girl š©·
Goodbye to my dream of Happily Ever After
I used to believe in it
the fairytale ending,
the promise that love would stay
if I just held on tight enough.
Doing right by others would payoff
Just a matter of time
Truth is,sometimes it doesnāt
You can do it all, maybe it is a lesson
To learn. Maybe, I should of listened when they told me to put that time in myself instead.
Since I was a child,
I...
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