The connection between art, specifically poetry, and personal experience of loss, fear, love, longing, expressing sadness and moments of happiness, has long captured the attention of poets and literary scholars. In some cases, poetry is sometimes among the remaining culture relics left to relay certain emotions and experiences in the face of estrangement, displacement, and dislocation. In the description of the loss of the Palestinian land and his sense of disorientation, the Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti writes referring to an Israeli soldier: “His gun took from us the land of the poem and left us with the poem of the land” (13). It is in the poem of the land that poets now reside. Taking this statement as both a point of departure and framing, this paper will address one of the recent, and arguably, deepest wounds and ruptures for the Arab psyche: the civil war in Syria. Specifically, this paper will illustrate the way in which Syrian poets are compelled to articulate the suffering of their nation and how the quest of Syrian poets today in responding to the present chaos of their life and nation is elegiac. Particularly, I will examine Mostafa Haj Hussein’s two collections, Tal?b?b al-Raj?’ (2016) and Qabla ‘an Yastaf?qa al-daw (2016), to trace the poetics of death in his writing. I intend to show how the intimate connection between poetry and loss, both the loss of space and that of sanity, is threaded through the language of contemporary Syrian poets such as Haj Hussein. The paper will also demonstrate that in the loss of home, the poem becomes the home and the shelter of the Syrian poet in which to take solace. In other words, upon entering the land of the lost space and lost sanity, the poets’ language and words become not only an experience of sadness but rather the site of sadness for the Syrian poet who, as Maurice Blanchot puts it, “wants to make a work and make of death his work” (et faire de la mort son oeuvre) (124).