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Death Poems - Poems about Death

Disperazione, Questa Conosciuta
… Disperazione. Questa conosciuta. Piovra, s’avventa! Tentacoli. Strade. Nessuna corretta. … Dio. Questo conosciuto. Faro, acceca! Raggio. Sentiero. Occlusa la meta. … Alcol. Questo conosciuto. Sedativo, addormenta! Ebbrezza. Sosta. Tutto si ferma. … Il sogno. Questo conosciuto. Preservativo, attenua! Risveglio. Partenza. Verso la Belva. … ...

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Categories: childhood, death, love, teenage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Legends Live
Legends leave one by one time degrees Beyond day beyond night beyond sight Yet still here memory let's them live ...

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Categories: death, death,
Form: Other



The Ground Beneath Our Feet
Deceit's bitter taste lingers like burial rice cooked in familiar space The sharp edge of betrayal cuts deep from within, a wound that never heals Innocence fades like pencil marks erased as life's indelible script unfolds The ground beneath our feet will be our roof a somber truth we cannot escape Loyalty's test lies in water's gentle flow yet...

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Categories: death, africa, anxiety, confidence, confusion,
Form: Free verse
A Night Beneath the Sky
Not once did I blink, Afraid your gaze would fade at twilight’s brink, Drowning silent in your soundless sea, Begging the world to let me be, Even if death walks next to me. No past to flee, No future to believe, Only you — a shadow near, Clutching time in a crystal tear. I won’t let go of your hand, Though skies might break and...

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Categories: dark, death, longing, lost
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A billion Dollar Soul
A billion dollars can buy a bushel of silence and two for death hectares of prime farmland or champagned private jets It can buy a turd in stilettos and a pyrite hearted mistress. A billion bucks can buy you a secondhand spaceship or an endless good run of wall street luck it can buy a bloated lip- plastic...

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Categories: death, death, money,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Blackbird Flies Before the Moon
A blackbird flies before the moon, A life shall pass away; A death, a bird, Together stirred, Fused in a lunar ray; The wings of a fate falling soon. ...

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Categories: allegory, bird, death, fate,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Harbinger Row
I took a long drive down to Harbinger Row Where the grass is all dead and the flowers won't grow Where the people and their pets are now long gone And an icy cold wind whispers till the dawn On certain nights you can hear the spirits cry Under a pale-blue moon or a blood-red sky They suffer and anguish...

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Categories: death, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member We Pass out Every Night
Diving deep in the pond of the sub-consciousness I die every night, you die every night too This is our way of rejuvenating the body This may sound crazy, eerily or even spooky, However, this is absolutely or definitely true Our body makes a special trip to correct the mess Which takes place from a certain time to the other We die...

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Categories: blessing, creation, day, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The execution
The women fell upon the bodies of the dead, clearing blindfolds for one last look upon their face. Shot, against a carmine wall, no matter how they pled. So now they mourn them through a veil of blackened lace. A mother presses lips upon a virgin son; a bride, in bloodstained white, whispers; she is to be; a sister screams, at...

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Categories: death, death,
Form: Rhyme
One Loan
I don’t have to remind you. Yesterday is behind you. Temporary is the time these bodies will hold the spirit inside you. Whether you are a millionaire or broke and in debt. Life has a beginning middle and end. It’s those three points that we try to make our friend. Since our timer starts when...

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Categories: death, death, earth, god, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In The Beginning
In the beginning two lovers were born In the campus parking lot behind the student union They clung together for 60 years Until one day my wounded bird knew Her broken hip would not allow her to fly again I was too old and weak to pick her up off the floor When she fell...she said she wanted to go to...

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Categories: death, death, farewell, first love,
Form: Narrative
Sometimes in Srebrenica
It might be a city of paradise in Bosnia, Its memories are as fragile as a vase The horrors and tears stained on the canvas of time And it's something that no one forgets. With a child snatched from his mother, Begging her to pray for his soul As fear ascends like a dark cloud Standing in line and awaitng the...

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Categories: death, death, history, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Uninvited
Uninvited death slowly entered during her illness Engulfing her old, frail body Slowly and higher came the stillness Which at any time can affect anybody Night's embrace grows colder with each breath, While the clouds drift on a somber quest, Even time pauses at the doorstep of death, Holding her moments in an eternal rest. I knew I had died when the...

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Categories: age, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member LOVE LIVES ON
When I lose someone I love…someone who was close to me I try my best to follow the Native Nations’ wisdom and philosophy… To stay with them a while in those sweet places I call memories To visit their smile often To let their light warm and fill my heart And always remember Their love lives on through me ...

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Categories: death, death, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Before my mom gave me birth
I’ve known my mother since before I had a shape, when my soul — a seed of silent stars, was still searching for its furrow. I was an imperceptible vibration, a faint flicker in the chasm between being and not-being, and she — the only soil where I could take root. She never promised time would be gentle, but she gave me her...

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Categories: absence, child, death, family,
Form: Free verse

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