It's very likely you'll only truly appreciate a grief poem and fully understand the words penned in one, once you yourself have

gone through the harrowing experience of losing someone you love, cherish, and hold dear to your heart.

Losing a loved one is an extremely painful experience and takes a long time to work through.

Some days, it will seem as though you'll never be happy again, and that the sadness will never leave you.

You may be experiencing emotions you don't fully understand ... anger, shock, guilt, fear ...

Communicating your feelings and sharing your emotions with others is recognized as the best and healthiest way to deal with grief.

Keeping everything bottled up is not the way to go, and will only delay the healing process.

One way of communicating your grief is by talking about it to friends, family and loved ones.

Another, is by writing about it.

And, throughout the ages, both men and women have written many an emotive grief poem, telling the World about their loss.

Reading through poems about grief written by others will help you connect with your own experience.

Poetry goes straight to the heart, and you'll gain greater understanding of your own situation by reading the experiences of

others.

One of the oldest examples of grief poems can be found in the Bible.

The Bible is packed full of life's emotions, but the Psalms of Lamentation - in the Old Testament's Book of Psalms - expresses

much grief, frustration and rage.

Sometimes, it's difficult to find the exact words to express the pain you're feeling.

The raw feelings, rage, yet prayerfulness expressed in the Psalms of Lamentation will help with this.

Reading a grief poem doesn't only help you better understand your own experiences and teach you how to express your sadness.

It can also show you where the grain of comfort lies ...

War is traditionally a time of great loss, when many young men are killed ... young men who should have been allowed to live their

future, marry, and bring up children of their own.

At the end of the Great War, when nearly every family was grieving the loss of at least one young man, renowned Poet Laureate

of the time - Laurence Binyon - managed to pick out the one tiny grain of comfort from the mountain of despair when he

penned the much-repeated lines:

"They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old:

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn."

The grief poem that most touches you will probably depend on who you lost and how you lost them.

But you'll surely find many to help you.

If not, why not write your own?...

Because writing is such an important way of releasing trapped emotions and feelings, it can be of enormous help to write your

own grief poetry.

When the words well up inside you, write them down and get them out into the open, as so many before you have done. You're sure

to feel cleansed and at peace.

Who knows, maybe at some point in time your words will help someone else.

So, make the use of the written word during your time of grieving.

For reading a grief poem, or writing your own, will greatly help the healing process.