Mortality Poems - Poems about Mortality

..."Marionette of Flesh in a Borrowed Dress" - Daniel Henry Rodgers The hourglass, a skeletal jester, mocks in the tomb's chill, Each falling grain an emaciated ......Read the rest...

...Days come and days go, again and again rushing forward, knowing it'll never slow. Modus long before first life could begin, crossed the cosmic face of sun's starry glow. Time turns into weeks a......Read the rest...

...In the grand theater of existence, we play our part, A journey through time, a tale from the heart. Life, not short but fleeting, slips through our grasp, Moments like sand, slipping from our clas......Read the rest...

...When thinking of writing your will, Though you may not be over the hill, You are forced to confront, If I may be so blunt, That some goals you may never fulfill. For a will means you cannot pr......Read the rest...

...Death (andaree form) This thief comes anytime of the day and night With claws of raptor sharper than scythe Grabbing us, loved ones or friends Mortality ends Soul departs Hence Lift our hea......Read the rest...

... Dead of Fall In gathering storm clouds, Fall whispers its dread, Cold tendrils coil, as life's colors shed. Once vibrant hues, now wilt and fade, As darkness creeps in, a cold, si......Read the rest...

...Napping thru days with Vicodin nights, slow healing is my plight.. Heating pad between the thighs, too much pain other wise.. How much longer until I mend? Will I ever walk again? At times thi......Read the rest...

...The 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, ......Read the rest...

...We started as 8 with the unique zest of life in our own way, but it was not to be for eternity for the first come in was the first to leave. This began for each of us a deep long look at our own mort......Read the rest...

.... How long is instantaneous, How long is the blink of an eye, How long is a split second when Describing time taken to die? Could that perception of time Take on a whole new state Could time ......Read the rest...

... Hangman, hangman, That man is being hung Stop the atrocity. Let us hang him, Since we are all guilty Unless you're sinless Accessed in a mortality? ......Read the rest...

...April 9th, 2024 would be ninety fifth birthday poem for dearly departed papa The following words crafted soon after the soul of me daddy set adrift into the empyrean realm joining the rank and fil......Read the rest...

...Into an opposing mirrored world That is not always what it seems, I look for a pattern near or far, That reflects my fate and dreams. But what I see is not me, It is something vague a......Read the rest...

...Poe’s Hourglass: A Melancholic Decree Once upon a midnight dreary, As sands slip through life’s hourglass, eerie, I pondered upon my penitent past, And the regrets that will forever last......Read the rest...

...Like white wash tomb with dead bones Never satisfied in yourself, placing higher soul Forgetting that it is of the being we live Heart of dignity mortality our breath inhale But living before the......Read the rest...