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Death Absurd Poems

These Death Absurd poems are examples of Absurd poems about Death. These are the best examples of Absurd Death poems written by international poets.

Risking the absurd and death in every verse
Risking the absurd and death in every verse,
The poet, like an acrobat, swings over the heads of
The crowd, in a world where writing is a...

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© Dan Enache  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: absurd, fantasy,

Death's Mischevious Prophecy
Once upon a time, in a land of make-believe,
there lived a magical calendar if you choose to believe.
It hung on the wall, sparkling with a...

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Categories: absurd, death, fantasy, fate, fun,
Premium Member Love Is Love and Other Absurd Truisms
("Untitled - The Eye of Jihad", 2019, original encaustic)

Love is Love - and other absurd truisms

“Love is love” is like “Follow your bliss”
a way to...

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Categories: absurd, extended metaphor, society, today,
Premium Member Fragments Landed Here
fRaGmEnTs
landed HERE
  in time for
the twilight of
  life

…where
percussive villains
perform on
a global stage
as glowing slime
slithers
through one
  mendacious midpoint
  at a time &
earth's...

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Categories: absurd, dark, death, humorous, society,
Life
In the expanse of purposeless existence,
We drift, untethered, searching for guidance.
Hope, a distant memory, elusive, unattainable,
No laughter escapes our lips on this path.

Days and nights...

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Categories: absurd, allusion, analogy, art, crush,

Absurd
Sometimes I pray for my death as much I want to live, but it will not come ... 
I long for my childhood but it...

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Categories: absurd, allusion, creation, depression, grief,
Premium Member Ham
Some people say a man is made out of ham
I say he's made out of mussel and clam
Mussel and clam, oyster and crab,
Spread like a...

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Categories: absurd, animal, death, food, parody,
Premium Member Truth
Questions of truth, alas become moot--
          O'er angry voices, truth seldom heard
Like branches strayed from their...

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© Ann Peck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: absurd, anger, angst, death, hate,
A Vain Word
A Vain Word
by Michael R. Burch

Oleanders at dawn preen extravagant whorls
as I read in leaves’ Sanskrit brief moments remaining
till sunset implodes, till the moon strands...

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Categories: absurd, autumn, beauty, extended metaphor,
Where Hope's An Absurd Word
Hope an absurd word



See mothers weep- their dead strewn on the street
They mourn so forlorn, the day they were born

The tears not only flow- but,...

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Categories: absurd, death, funeral, goodbye, heartbreak,
Premium Member Theatre of the Absurd
THEATRE OF THE ABSURD


Puppets, all parts, perpetually working.
Tense strings, plucked, with novice fingers.
Ruby sawdust sparkles with the warm sun.
Puppets on strings, such silly things!

A play...

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Categories: absurd, anxiety, dark, fear, tree,
I Exist In Absurd Congruities
i exist in
absurd congruities 
from rounds and angles
to oblong communities of vacuity

onward! valiant spasm
i hear the universal screams
through the overflowing chasm
spilling through technicolour dreams

what's real...

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Categories: absurd, allegory, art, identity, mental

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