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.
Song of The Atropa 'belladonna' No 14: ABBAAs strangleweeds ghost life manifestly,
caused by an Atropa belladonna
exposé mind-bending, marijuana
bears parallel outcomes, yet, it's deathly,
Greek myth Atropos cuts the thread of life
belladonna, a woman of beauty ...
Italian. If eaten, highly deadly,
or plant scrapes open...
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Categories:
allusion, analogy, death, fate,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Sitting In SilenceNo edifice harbors more profound silence than this,
Each door creaks with a mournful cadence as if bearing the weight of years.
The stairs emit a plaintive screech, echoing the passage of time.
All that once flourished now...
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Categories:
death, devotion, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Is it my timeThe window holds no joy anymore
There's no need for knocks on my door
My time, my hesitation subsides
Life's true mystery, no longer hides
My bed is my jail, my cage today
My reason to be, I miss lay
My...
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Categories:
death, fate, funeral, god,
Form: Rhyme
Perish Puzzle
death
last breath
questions haunt
splitter prayers
hello? hello? hello?
climbing grief sunset mountains
pearls placed upon requested peaks
angst of still buds in the heart of souls
the pain puzzle missing until our death
March 18th 2024
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Categories:
angst, bereavement, death of
Form: Etheree
Too LateToo long since we met, and now too late;
words, misplaced in anger, at some point
turned inwards into bitter silence.
Small infractions soon expand to chasms
in the sleepless, fetid, endless nights
of my self-righteous indignations.
All we had so...
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Categories:
death,
Form: Blank verse
Man on the Precipice of EternityIn seventy-eight, my steel-stallion, KZ1000,
pride, wind in my hair.
Its Sissy Bar, firm tether, bag secured,
my wanderlust's prayer.
Sun, snow, wind sculpt my journey's theme,
my...
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Categories:
death, destiny, emotions, faith,
Form: Narrative
JimJim
by Lanier Thomas
I tried to tell you, but you refused to hear.
As soon as I returned home from the Army
You took me straight to your drug dealer’s abode.
That was more than my friendship could ever...
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Categories:
death, drug, grief, sorrow,
Form: Ottava rima
LET'S TANGOIn a moment’s awareness, You gently stepped.
Held my hand, held my breath---
I took to resolve to dance with You,
In silence tap territories anew.
A galaxy of stars, passed the Milky Way
You held my hands as we...
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Categories:
death,
Form: Rhyme
Long agoThey were gone long ago
but I kept my illusions dear
my arms around their ghosts
hugging my own fears
love is a strange flaw
images of what is ideal
we were nothing at all
I now have it clear.
Jessica...
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Categories:
death,
Form: Rhyme
Death of a Cockney RebelYou played Judy Teen,
became our Top of the Pops,
strumming Spanish strings
in that epic bowler hat,
somehow breaking every code.
...
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Categories:
death, music,
Form: Tanka
Warnings from the AbyssDwell in the river and the monster will eat you
While the flakes of snow float over,
Forsake the pleasure and erase the relic
As your internal mayhem will soon break
If you oppose my revelations.
I exist so...
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Categories:
10th grade, bible, death,
Form: Free verse
I died on my favorite dayI died on my favorite day
No idea it would be until I began following the light
I did not remember ever being summoned by pink clouds.
accompanied by my main guardian angel
I have missed you so much!...
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Categories:
death,
Form: Free verse
To Save their Skins
On the ash-heap of history strewn
towers and pyramids ruined
Of civilizations long since extinct
alive only in pottery and sphinx
They once fought...
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Categories:
death, hate, history, jewish,
Form: Couplet
Categories:
abuse, death, depression, emotions,
Form: Haiku
Categories:
death, myth, ocean, peace,
Form: Senryu
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