Title: 6 Poems About Grief and Healing | Power Poetry
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6 Poems About Grief and Healing
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Content: not an elegy for Mike Brown” by Danez Smith
In “not an elegy for Mike Brown,” Danez Smith elegizes all the Black boys and men killed by police. “ I am sick of writing this poem/but bring the boy. his new name/his same old body. ordinary, black/dead thing,” Smith writes. He contemplates the Trojan War, sparked by the kidnapping of a woman, and the modern response when Black people are killed at the hands of police. He finishes the poem, turning to music as healing. 3. “ Facing It” by Yusef Komunyakaa
Pained by his years fighting in the Vietnam War, Yusef Komunyakaa explores the aftermath of war in “Facing It.” The poem is set in Washington DC’s Vietnam Memorial. In the poem, Komunyakaa struggles between expressing and suppressing his emotions. “