Use these sympathy poems in cards, messages, texts, or other ways to support a grieving friend or family member. Turn to ...

This beautiful poem, "Death is Nothing at All", honoring the departed was adapted by Irish monks and make popular, used often at Irish funerals, the Carmelite monks in Tallow, County Waterford.

A: As I was writing this, one of my closest friends died, and so I started writing elegy poems to her. She was 39 when she died, and I was feeling devastated at her loss. I started writing to her ...

Reflecting on how she now sees the world, Trommer is struck by “the sweetness and the bitterness, the joy and the grief, the love and the loss and how, as humans, this is what we're asked to meet over ...

Later in the poem, we learn that his ear also contains the distant drumming of the sound of drones, of American made F-16 fighter planes, “the screams of bombs” that fall on houses.