spitty splashing of pitty patter sun-washed lemons, spitty splashing of pitty patter sun-washed lemons,
the sun rises instead to the shade of the apple trees
Hello nuke in the sky, its an experience to say Hi,
cracking my last case of beer until ashes I'll die.......
wisdom dictates I'll be lost to the flesh as a fact,
among all the memorial moments as I pass away.
Inner...
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Categories:
dark, death, introspection, poems,
Form: Rhyme
Squilli Nel Buio, Cos’e' Successo A Gennaio?…
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****: “Pronto?”.
*****: “*-***?”.
TU TU TU TU TU TU TU TU TU…
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Categories:
childhood, death, love, teenage,
Form: Free verse
Lions for Lambs
Categories:
death, life,
Form: Rhyme
His Constant CompanionAlbert Nelson's father bought a huge clock, the very day he was born,
A happy fellow, with a winsome smile. Like the merry pink sun, at dawn.
Being too tall for the shelf, it stood inside their foyer, for ninety years,
Without the penchant to be slumbering. Tick, tock, tick-joys and tears!
Albert loved to watch its pendulum swing,...
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Categories:
age, death, fantasy, friend,
Form: Couplet
ShiverIn another life, we were.
I hope you found
what you are looking for.
Is it too late?
Don’t turn around.
Here and everywhere,
I remember you.
In the summer wind,
what once was....
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Categories:
break up, death of
Form: Free verse
Israel's Share
“A people few in number”
with an outsize burden to bear
With Russia and Ukraine
simply compare
More killed there
...
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Categories:
care, death, jewish, war,
Form: Rhyme
Our Final TestOur final test will be graded
When our breath has dissipated
Life itself is our final test
Final grade when we’re laid to rest
Taking the test may make you snore
If you don’t care about the score
For the next one you’ll study more
Then it hits I’m dead on the floor
There’re no more chances to improve
That was the final my...
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Categories:
death, heaven, life, spiritual,
Form: Sonnet
The Seed Of Fear - Cinderella
Ominous bays of hellhounds thunder in the bleak night
As a shattered glass slipper is found amongst powdered ivory snow,
The glint caught within incorporeal warping moonlight—
Leading to a blue grey corpse, mangled with frozen tears cemented in place.
Hands clenched around a copper timepiece,
The minute hand paused at one past twelve.
The putrid scent of desperation still hangs...
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Categories:
dark, death, gothic, imagery,
Form: Other
Planche de Chair CuiteShe was not invited
She was arranged
They never wanted Jasmine
not the woman who brought basil-clean hands
and pomegranate soap
who harmonized soliloquies into pastries
while they offered only
hinges rusted shut
She was not guest
She was garnish
Not Jasmine the flower
but Jasmine the bulb
strangled in its own clay
frost biting at the marrow
buried beneath their polite...
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Categories:
betrayal, death, gothic, grief,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Death in the New YearOur hands are tied, Death
Since you dawned on us this New Year . . .
Shapely bottles of champagnes have shone
And have broken to fragments with the ululation
Of firecrackers that warmed cold and dark wintry skies.
Now, aphonia sets in from unending lamentations.
Headlines, buried by the chilly bones of winter,
Are barren of good tidings.
A chionophile besieges the...
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Categories:
death, sorrow,
Form: Elegy
A Father's prayer for his sonMy son lies teetering
On the edge of the abyss
And tears rivulet.
God, I beg you, please.
End this suffering, I beg,
I die as he breathes.
I love him, dammit,
But if he suffers for me,
I'm a poor father.
So decide. Heal him
Or quiet his pain. Mercy,
I beg of you, God.
Was not once enough?
I yield. Take my dreams,...
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Categories:
bereavement, child, death, father,
Form: Rengay
moth
Categories:
4th grade, analogy, death,
Form: Haiku
Suspended FaultsI felt as small as a winter’s flower
yet as tall as an old oak tree
the seconds dragged on for what seemed like hours
when my world turned in on me
the cloak I wore was of little comfort
just to bridge between present and past
I held onto this and other secrets
no more a peasant but a king at...
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Categories:
bereavement, death, freedom, history,
Form: Rhyme
Listless Song Of The StarvingIsraeli hostages and Gazans hollowed,
the dark cold cruelty of some in humankind.
Gray circles under frightened eyes,
bones protruding from fading frames.
Listless song of the starving,
grieving God. ~...
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Categories:
death, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
DandelionA dandelion seed.
Starts at the end of a small stem.
Floating all over.
Little seeds leaving airy footprints.
And I am leaving things behind too.
Mud all over.
Hurting.
If seeds could grow into something maybe she would be here.
Seeds.
Vacuuming it all up.
I think seeds are like particles except that they...
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Categories:
death,
Form: Free verse
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,
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Poems Related to Death
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