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Poems About Death | Poems on the Loss of loved Ones

Michael, My Brother
Your smile is like the moon all silver lined, I wanted to be by you, time after time. Your love for sports was quite unreal, But you never gave up that rid and reel. Your humour was loved, loved by us all, But your laugh was the best, best of it all. I watched when you became a man and you...

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Categories: absence, brother, cry, death,
Form: Rhyme
Casket
Casket by Adejola Joseph Casket Six feet deeper Deeds of man is questioned How did you live your life? Time to give account Every man will die Surely, every man will taste death But death is not the end of a journey It's a transition to the unknown and to the unseen Casket I rejoice at the day I see my casket It's a homecoming Glorious homecoming Casket....

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Categories: death,
Form: Free verse



The dance is over just look at the time
I have a dance And so do you So we could dance together My heart a hole For you to fall Losing all your feathers I can’t breathe the air of death Without the tangle of our mess Kisses of the black hole kind Loving, hugging and making us blind Make us hungry make us sad Promise to make my world so glad But when I...

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Categories: death, allusion, love, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
An Elegy on Death-3
AN ELEGY ON DEATH -3 Bow like rainbow it gave While I want to it near, I want to it heart embrace While even cann't give me own fear. Smile a lot I do in mask While ,the last it true when? It's I think very difficult task, Hide with pain regression then. The small bonds of Psaltery Leave with the worst condition, When they again...

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Categories: cry, death, depression, heartbroken,
Form: Elegy
An Elegy on Death-2
AN ELEGY ON DEATH -2 Simply someone look at eyes In twilight of sky,happy in smile, But that smile hurt after miles Don't know else,that I file. Left the whole world in dark, Look in that smilies live in silence Remember,when last these spark Remember,when last I do violence. The few I wrote on us The few isn't, I think sufficent Death don't get while it...

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Categories: change, cry, death, dedication,
Form: Elegy



Premium Member Death of the Ego
I never thought they would figure me out How could they find me in the layers of illusion? I never thought one could completely turn about So many pleasures, I kept them in confusion Now after all these years, it has come to this I push the same buttons, but their minds start to think They’ll kill their ego in their...

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Categories: death, change, god, heart, introspection,
Form: Sonnet
The 12th Anniversary Of Dad's Death
When Dad got Leukemia, he put up a fight. He took chemo but lost his battle 12 years ago tonight. After months of taking chemotherapy, he died. He couldn't beat cancer even though he tried. He died less than two hours before the fourteenth of July. He was a good provider and that's something I can't deny. When a person loses...

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Categories: death, anniversary, cancer, dad,
Form: Rhyme
Love is war
--- ## Love is a War I know what happened when the love that couldn't stay away from me for even a moment became distant. In that moment, I didn't break; I felt pain within the pain, and to assert my right over it, I hunted it down. Don't ask today, the game is over, Vaishali Baskaran....

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Categories: death,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member If I Should Die
If I should die quite suddenly Don't grieve, my dear. Don't cry for me I've waited, oh, so fervently From bonds of life to be set free This world is not how it should be Today the Lord has heard my plea Don't mourn for me I've been set free Don't stand too long around my grave For death is friend and not a...

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Categories: death, life,
Form: Rhyme
DEATH
Alas! Death has arrived As I lay on ground and die It held a bouquet of periwinkle As my life stopped at its spindle It reached out my hand A face of dark as it put his demand Of my final words I said I wish to be a bird It simple smiled All that was to be denied And it stood there and...

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Categories: death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member FBI IDENTITY FRAUD CRIMINAL INTENT WRONGFUL DEATH OF FBI INFORMANT
SPECIAL AGENT PAULA BRAND RESTLESSNESS BEGAN TO SHATTER MY EXISTENCE BY WAY OF THE IMPOSTER HIRED BY SPECIAL AGENT PAULA BRAND TO PERPUTRTATE FRAUD UPON ME SHE ATTEMPTED TO ERASE ME ERASE THE FACT SHE INSTALLED WIRES ON MY UNBORN CHILDREN BY REPLACING ME WITH A FRAUDULENT JAMAICAN DEALERS SLEEPING WITH MY ABUSIVE EX HUSBAND...

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Categories: death, allah,
Form: Naat
Reaper
The Reaper I know, You respect no one. When you decide to take one home, Age, color, accomplishments mean nothing to you In your court. You harvest every soul At your most convenience. In life's prime and low, you strike hard Without any consideration. You cause unexplained weeping And a void that will never be filled. You take when you want, Without...

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Categories: africa, betrayal, dark, death,
Form: Free verse
I hate my neighbour and want to murder them
I hate my neighbour and want to kill them. I imagine their car being squashed by trucks like jam sandwiches. Red crusts. I daydream that their staircase collapses like factories ready for demolition. I fantasise they swallow glass instead of coffee and bleach in place of milk. I conjure images of their flesh peeling like skin from a potato....

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Categories: death,
Form: Free verse
Karma Dogma
If intent and actions are cause and effect and influence the future what you give is what you get and yet what about children caught in the crossfire when very young murdered in man's mire they have not yet begun to live and love is all they have to give so much for karma symbolised by the lotus flower but whereabouts is it in their most needed hour forsaken by fortune they...

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Categories: children, death, how i
Form: Rhyme
marionette of grief
They birthed me in a house of screams, Where shadows stitched my fevered dreams— No lullaby, no gentle womb, Just rusted chains and cradle's tomb. A mother’s voice? A serpent's hiss. A father's touch? A clenched, cold fist. Each lull was laced with sharpened lies, Each smile a mask, each hug a vice. I suckled rage from...

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Categories: death, abuse, anger, angst, conflict,
Form: Rhyme

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