Reading and writing poems about the death of a loved one are a beautiful way to deal with the emotions and trauma associated with mortality. These beautiful and inspirations poems about death help us see how others are enduring the loss of a parent, other family members, a friend, or loved one. Everyone’s experiences are different, and we cannot compare feelings, but coping with grief and death is something all must go through, and we can learn from the sadness and reactions of others expressed in poetry.
My AdrenalineI stood at the bus stop deciding which way to go and I look towards the East and my adrenaline starts to flow, the traffic was going one way and wind was blowing the other...
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Categories:
betrayal, bird, body, death,
Form: Narrative
In Darkness and DeathIn the silent, shadowed halls of night,
Where whispers dance with ghostly light,
Lies the realm where death does tread,
A sovereign land, where all fear to head.
Cloaked in darkness, a figure so still,
Its presence alone, enough to...
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Categories:
angst, anxiety, death, death
Form: Rhyme
Get It Right
Get It Right
Miracle Man
4/18/2024
After the final chapter of life is written,
Many will judge us better,
or worse than perhaps we were.
To those that we may have aggrieved
there will be a time of forgiveness maybe.
To others, a...
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Categories:
death, god, judgement, sin,
Form: Free verse
LIFELarks still sweetly sing at the rising of each morn
Inviting memories to flood my damaged heart.
Fear not the passing of my time, you whispered, dear
Embrace the life we shared, the one you have to come....
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Categories:
death, life, love,
Form: Acrostic
I want to peel his skin back, and eat it like the meat of a grapeIn the cool light,
I want to peel his skin back
And eat it like the meat of a grape
In the heat summer,
I’m painted, red as Cardinal
And stuffed full of Sparrow’s ecstasy
At the summit of hysteria
He holds...
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Categories:
angel, dark, death, depression,
Form: Free verse
MeThe battlefield is filled with blood,
Washing the whole field like an ocean that will never end,
My comrades kill to defend themselves,
I kill to survive
My enemies watching my steps,
Seeking to end my life,
A treasure...
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Categories:
Death, age, angst, anxiety, care,
Form: Free verse
Whenever The Soldiers GoThese thoughts will follow
whenever the soldiers go...
to be with them into the battlefield,
reciting the shortest prayer
to protect them as a shield
in moments of uncertainty and fear!
A heart penetrated by sorrow
shares their belief deeply,
there will be...
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Categories:
anxiety, courage, death, emotions,
Form: Narrative
danse macabreautumn leaves delight
why are we so enchanted ~
by beauty in death...
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Categories:
autumn, beautiful, death,
Form: Haiku
I am a VirginI am a virgin, I have never been touched by a man since I was created.
I have never known a man, I have never been logged, my features still remain intact.
I am a rainforest...
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Categories:
birth, care, death, nature,
Form: Ballad
I am a VirginI am a virgin, I have never been touched by a man since I was created.
I have never known a man, I have never been logged, my features still remain intact.
I am a rainforest...
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Categories:
birth, care, death, nature,
Form: Ballad
The SlaughtererThe slaughterer came to the market
Dancing and wielding a matchet
He sang songs of sorrow;
And wrote rhymes for his victims of tomorrow.
...
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Categories:
death, fear, life, war,
Form: Rhyme
ONE WAY TO LIVE FOREVER
This blessing is a question
Just a thought I'm throwing out….
It is actually less a blessing
than something to think about…
Although it is inevitable…
for death we cannot defy…
If we remain in the hearts of those we leave...
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Categories:
death, memory,
Form: Rhyme
REVISITING THE CEMETERY IN THE HEART
When a friend of ours dies…who in our life has played a part
it is with the deepest sorrow we add thier tombstone to the cemetery in our heart.
Why her? Why him? Why now? We asked...
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Categories:
death,
Form: Rhyme
LifeLike a great beast
Its age set course
Futures the feast
Exits ones corpse...
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Categories:
analogy, death, future, growing
Form: Acrostic
A Dirge
(In memory of Uncle Thomas)
Bumpy breeze, like a blasting roar
That day when you did soar without an oar
Twenty-two years of sorrow, too long
For many years, I sang a solemn song
Days of dark, and greedy clouds
These...
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Categories:
dark, death, depression, sick,
Form: Elegy
Specific Types of Death Poems
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anniversary, brother, cat, child, dog, elegy, eulogy, father, friend, funeral, goodbye, grandfather, grandmonther, grief, in loving memory, loss, lover, memorial, missing you, mother, moving on, pet, rip, sad, sister, suicide, sympathy,
and more.
Definition | What is Death in Poetry?
Poems Related to Death
afterlife, bereavement, darkness, death of a friend, decease, demise, departure, dying, eternal rest, extinction, fatality, grave, grim reaper, heaven, loss, lost love, mortality, paradise, parting, passing, passing over, repose, sleep, the end, tomb