Michael, My BrotherYour 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
CasketCasket 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 timeI 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-3AN 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-2AN 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
Death of the EgoI 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 DeathWhen 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
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## 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
If I Should DieIf 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
DEATHAlas! 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
FBI IDENTITY FRAUD CRIMINAL INTENT WRONGFUL DEATH OF FBI INFORMANTSPECIAL 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
ReaperThe 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 themI 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
Specific Types of Death Poems
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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