Famous Short Suicide Poems

Famous Short Suicide Poems. Short Suicide Poetry by Famous Poets. A collection of the all-time best Suicide short poems

Rhyme Against Living  

 If wild my breast and sore my pride,
I bask in dreams of suicide;
If cool my heart and high my head,
I think, "How lucky are the dead!"

Leaves  

 I went looking for God 
but I found you instead.
 
Bad luck or destiny, 
you decide.
 

Buried in the muck, 
the soot of the city, 
sorrow for an appetite, 
devil on your left shoulder, 
angel on your right.
 

You, with your thorny rhythms 
and tragic, midnight melodies.
 

My heart never tried 
to commit suicide before.
 

Originally published in Literati Magazine, Winter 2005
Copyright © Lisa Zaran, 2005

478. Epigram on a Suicide  

 EARTH’D up, here lies an imp o’ hell,
 Planted by Satan’s dibble;
Poor silly wretch, he’s damned himsel’,
 To save the Lord the trouble.

Bag Of Mice  

 I dreamt your suicide note
was scrawled in pencil on a brown paperbag,
& in the bag were six baby mice.
 The bag
opened into darkness,
smoldering
from the top down.
 The mice,
huddled at the bottom, scurried the bag
across a shorn field.
 I stood over it
& as the burning reached each carbon letter
of what you'd written
your voice released into the night
like a song, & the mice
grew wilder.

Suicide In The Trenches  

 I knew a simple soldier boy 
Who grinned at life in empty joy, 
Slept soundly through the lonesome dark, 
And whistled early with the lark.
 

In winter trenches, cowed and glum, 
With crumps and lice and lack of rum, 
He put a bullet through his brain.
 
No one spoke of him again.
 

You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye 
Who cheer when soldier lads march by, 
Sneak home and pray you'll never know 
The hell where youth and laughter go.