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.
Me very late mum, a funereal dayMe very late mum, a funereal day...
courtesy latitudinarian, nonestablishmentarian,
sexagenarian, and Unitarian son
and modest mastermind maven maverick.
Another anniversary of her death occurs
upon advent of
May fourth two thousand and five,
not quite seventy years since her...
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Categories:
death, absence, age, america, anniversary,
Form: Rhyme
The WrenLonely lies to myself
A string of hope
Clung to, hung to
Like the rope I'll use
When the time it comes
A soaring, sweet release
But for now,
My only release
Is this pen....
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Categories:
bird, death, depression, grief,
Form: Free verse
All That Rises Must FallHer spring returns to me, in death,
I shed a tear, alone,
for the weeping blossoms,
in the knowledge a moon will rise again,
before the rhythm of her breath,
turns out to be my own.
...
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Categories:
creation, death, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Truly UnknownEasily known is the cause of death
But the true reason for living
Remains for most of us hidden
Blown by the wind of our last breath...
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Categories:
death, introspection, life,
Form: Rhyme
EldernessElderness
(Mainly.)
Make
Time
Fly!
Or...
Don't have too much fun.
So? ...or Too?
Too/So?
Don't have SO much FUN?!
What a WASTE
Of TIME.
Thanks.
-Gray Squirrel
05-03-2024...
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Categories:
age, death, desire, heart,
Form: Free verse
Dottie Waits for her OpportunityDottie had been looking past the relatives for sixteen days
Staring out the window, at the pasture, seeing angels
They motioned for her to come, but she was never alone.
Her daughter did not understand the death process
A...
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Categories:
death,
Form: Prose Poetry
Life
Categories:
allusion, analogy, death, image,
Form: Acrostic
Ode to NicoleLife is such a delicate dance.
I never even had a chance.
Getting older, everyone is gone.
Alone, I feel so alone.
My friends left long ago.
The streets are so unforgiving.
I wish I knew another way of living.
Weapons don’t...
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Categories:
abuse, addiction, anxiety, death
Form: Rhyme
Burial At Sea______________________________________________________________
There'd needn't be
no digs of earth
or clumps of clay
that weigh my girth,
...
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Categories:
baptism, bereavement, death, funeral,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
LIFE poetry contest entryListening to what the world is telling, what the bird chirps mean, and where the truth lies in the words of others
Inspecting my thoughts and my actions through the day,
did I succeed...
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Categories:
appreciation, beauty, death, encouraging,
Form: Acrostic
All Turns Silent in the Meddows
It was the strangest thing I saw that day
A grassy grove and a man shouting mad
I didn't even know what to say
His face dragged down by his eye bags
His feet slept on the dirt, twigs...
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Categories:
cry, death, loss, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Until Death Do Us ApartI want to run away
But have got no way out of here
I want to just sit ‘n’ cry
But have got all my tears frozen
I want to endlessly smile
But…… just got no reason.
I want to dance...
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Categories:
bereavement, cancer, death, depression,
Form: Free verse
The third of MayThe third of May
A long time ago
How can I forget the day
I had to sing hurray
To my beautiful baby twins
Kissing their cheeks is all I could all day
The...
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Categories:
birthday, death, miss you,
Form: Free verse
Shifting Relentless Time(FICTION, PLEASE. It is easy for me to write in the first person, but nearly all my poems are fiction. Please don't attribute this poem to me. I loved my wife to...
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Categories:
abuse, angst, betrayal, death,
Form: Free verse
The Power To ChooseThe mind
its own place
be it heaven
or hell
The soul
but a bucket
to empty
or fill
Goya
a madman
DaVinci
extolled
Sharing
a genius
they fought
to control
Bleed out
the poison
death waits
to reclaim
Or memory
gets buried
and darkness
— remains
(Dreamsleep: May, 2024)
...
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Categories:
death, life,
Form: Rhyme
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.
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Poems Related to Death
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