Title: 6 Poems About Grief and Healing | Power Poetry
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6 Poems About Grief and Healing
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Content: Instead, these questions are asked in limbo, asked into a void. O’Rourke faces the grief of losing her mother by wondering. By wondering, she inches toward healing, but she is stuck on “The Night Where You No Longer Live.” The last line reads, “Will you stay the night.” 2. “ 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.