Sometimes it's hard to put loss into words, but poems about losing a loved one can help you comfort a friend, family member, or acquaintance that has just lost someone close. Poems can also validate ...

The late British poet laureate Ted Hughes repeatedly tried to perfect a poem describing the night his wife Sylvia Plath killed herself, drafts of a work published for the first time show. The draft ...

Jane Kenyon and I almost avoided marriage because her widowhood would have been so long, between us was there such a radical difference in age. And yet today it is twenty-two years since she died, of ...

Morgan Johnson, 12, lost her grandparents and cousins in the Connecticut fire. Dec. 29, 2011 — -- A 12-year-old girl whose grandparents died in theChristmas Day fire in Connecticut that also ...

Jimmy Carter passed away just 13 months after losing his beloved wife, Rosalynn Carter. Read the heartwarming poem the former ...