Concetta Franconero
This beautiful vocalist who gained huge popularity,
entered this world in Newark, New Jersey.
She was born in 1937 to an Italian-American family.
"Connie Francis" was a name suggested by Arthur Godfrey.
From there, her career went high and far.
Nobody could dispute her status as a star.
Connie not only recorded her songs in English,
she sang in Italian, Spanish, German,...
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Categories:
death, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Life After Delivery: A Tale of TwinsTwin babies float in their mother’s womb
growing strong they'll be delivered soon
communicating to each other in their way
experiencing so much, and much to say
Twin one said, shaking his head,” we are getting old…
and soon we'll be delivered as foretold.
Do you think brother, there will be more?
A life after delivery on that far shore?”
Twin...
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Categories:
analogy, baby, birth, death,
Form: Narrative
Life after deathDeath strikes with its wicked grin,
Deep grief and sorrow it brings,
Flights to heaven then begin,
When our souls fly without wings,
Each saint bears a halo ring,
They reign there as queens and kings,
With Angels near a calm spring.
Contest title: What Happened After Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Nette Onclaud
Date: 18th July, 2025...
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Categories:
angel, death, flying, grief,
Form: Verse
Why Is Child Heartbroken"The pen must go where the pen wants to go. Today it went down Heartbroken Lane." By Poet
The day came in with a great start
but is going out with a broken part.
With a child's loving and young heart,
it must take a very painful dart.
today I lost my furry best friend,
in life guess some things have...
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Categories:
death, child, friend, love, mom,
Form: Rhyme
FantasiaAverting
his death
reborn
in a dream
Time
had been stopped
the Reaper
unseen
Escaping
the end
his fancy
came true
Beginning
and ending
unbroken
— anew
(Dreamsleep: July, 2025)
...
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Categories:
death, fantasy, life,
Form: Rhyme
Quiet EchoesA quiet handshake—
now just dust on the breeze falls,
names fade with the dusk....
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Categories:
death, death of a
Form: Haiku
When I Depart, Remember Me SoftlyI did not come to win the world—
I came to feel it bleed.
To taste the silence in the hungry mouth,
To weep where no one dared to read.
To my family—
You held my name like worn cloth,
never quite knowing what I was stitched to become.
But I loved you more than I could say.
I only wanted to bring...
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Categories:
absence, death, death of
Form: Free verse
The Transformation of AttarIn Nishapur's dust and blazing heat,
A physician walked the wealthy street—
Young hands skilled in healing's art,
Rich purse, restless, yearning heart
That craved what gold could never meet.
Wine and laughter filled his nights,
Pleasure fed his appetites,
Till one dawn brought strange surprise:
An old man with ancient eyes
And bundle clutched with weathered might.
"Master," spoke that voice so low,
"Tell me...
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Categories:
death, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Againenslaved to the cyclical void,
abused, confused, and paranoid
of that endless—(somber schema)—
cyclical void, enslaved to the?
sheer gravity and that friendless
somber schema.—Of that endless
wicked, whirling, said wanton wheel
and that friendless, sheer gravity
of motion which sent atwirling
said wanton wheel, wicked, whirling,
hurtling through hell? a meager twitch
sent atwirling of motion which
shook all things fused.—And all this spell:
a meager twitch,...
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Categories:
creation, death, destiny, identity,
Form: Quatrain
Missing You
In gratitude for mercy, I softly tread,
For all that we cherished, the words left unsaid.
Comforted by knowing you held me so dear,
Our laughter still echoes, though you're no longer here.
As I sit in reflection, the memories flow,
The weight of your absence, a heavy undertow.
Yet in sorrow, I find strength, a promise divine,
That one day in...
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Categories:
bereavement, death, emotions, family,
Form: Rhyme
Calendar GirlYou celebrate your Death-Day every year,
a “selfie” trampling on your grave-to-be,
without your knowing. Anniversary?
Through predetermined locks you have to steer.
As flotsam tumbles over each steep weir
in transit to the dark and formless sea,
you’ll pass the date of your finality
repeatedly, before the end-of-pier.
That day will dawn. It really will. The rows
of serried numbers, rigid, unforgiving,
that fill...
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Categories:
death,
Form: Sonnet
What Will I Find?When the time comes, will my spirit fly?
Will my last breath end in a long, deep sigh?
Will it be soft like a lullaby?
Or will I be angry and try to deny?
Perhaps l will hover in the endless sky.
With God seated among angels on high.
The life I lived, must I justify?
Though an unsolved mystery, I still...
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Categories:
death, god, heaven, spiritual,
Form: Monorhyme
A funeral for myselfIt was a funeral for myself
And I still haven't buried her yet
The sky opened up and released its anger
Rained down in grief and sadness
The only other witness to her multiple deaths
The world built her to break
It was too late to save her
For she was now unrecognisable
In a casket crafted from pain...
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Categories:
death, discrimination, funeral, prejudice,
Form: Free verse
IN THE LAND OF PEACEOnce upon a time
in a faraway land
There was an old man, who had forgotten how to speak
His eyes would stare into the sky, void of any emotion,
His scars turned wrinkles narrated an untold story
His hands, never steady, always counting
Sometimes in the middle of the day, he would scream
But no sound would escape his mouth,...
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Categories:
abuse, corruption, death, dedication,
Form: Free verse
Justice ,deniedWith bloody hands, rusty hair and a dammed soul
I walked out ,stepping on the rotten meat
As my lungs struggled to breathe down the fragrance of the crime that I had committed
Blue and white lights flashed my eyes
And a bullet pierced through my cranium
Punishing me for the crimes I had not committed,
My lips...
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Categories:
death, abuse, bereavement, betrayal, dark,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Death Poems
Read wonderful death poetry on the following sub-topics:
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.
Definition | What is Death in Poetry?
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