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Death Allegory Poems

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

Premium Member A Paradox of Time Reborn

The sun, resplendent in its blazing might,
Burns fiercely o'er a barren, lifeless waste,
A desert dry and vast where earth is scorched
By searing radiation, deathly bright.
No...

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Categories: allegory, creation, death, destiny,

The Pain
Rid me of the pain of this world for I have my own pain to bear 
Everytime they look at me it feels I'm burned...

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Categories: allegory, pain,
Premium Member Yearn
" Life is the story of men who have strived, won or failed and of hearts that keep yearning against all odds"   ...

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Categories: absence, allegory, love,
I Speak For the Dead
Note: This poem is the twin poem for "She Speaks for the Dead." This one is in the mockingbird's perspective. 



I perch upon the locked...

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Categories: adventure, age, allegory, analogy,
The Cycle 7: Providence
Endless machinations of celestial inclination
stretch, deform and incline.
The children’s imaginations ignore Domination.
Of only absence; it’s betrayal He finds. 
Worship was briefly offered up high,
and it...

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Categories: allegory, betrayal, children, god,

Premium Member Dead Men
Dead men
God's given them one time to reach.
He's split the wall, allowed a breach.
They are climbing out of death's grip.
They are running out of the...

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Categories: allegory, death, destiny, future,
Premium Member End of a Universe
An astronomer in Central Park
gazed at the starry sky.
How will it end, he asked the dark?
How will the universe die?
And as cosmology revolved, in his...

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Categories: allegory, analogy, creation, irony,
Premium Member What be Ye, Preacher or Mortician
What be Ye, Preacher or Mortician?

A mortician prepares and buries the remains.
The hole he or she digs is for a lifeless corps, free of soul.
And...

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Categories: allegory, allusion, america, analogy,
Queen Such a Pretty Scene
Always paint pretty scene, 
Of wife who was a queen; 
Can feel all of her charms; 
Still will hold in my arms. 

She is with...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: allegory, analogy,
The Bio-Wars: A Son Lost
A tumour abated alters and waits.
Pathway incised, a new one it makes.
Spreading and forming, roots growing down.
The moment’s now here, a mighty rebound.

Battle exhausted, the...

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Categories: allegory, cancer, death, grief,
human-shaped soils
a carcass is moving
out from the white of the eye it is 
so all-consuming 
dots form in lines on the absentee spine 
dry undefined lumps...

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Categories: allegory, corruption, death, garden,
More Lies Said and Bull Fed
many more lies said
laid with women while in bed
more bull us has fed

was kind and thoughtful
a natural born nice guy
you would want to meet

Lincoln supported
by...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: allegory, analogy,
the hill of epitaphs
In the dirty hands of poverty,
 Scavengers of the Republic of Enlightenment
 Quench their thirst under the eyelids of the proletarians.
 A sinecure of hard...

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Categories: 12th grade, allegory,
HALLS OF AMENTI 1
HALLS OF AMENTI :1

My Kingdom is clear of books
                ...

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Categories: allegory, character, death, deep,
Keep Silent, Dear
The killers are killing--
Keep silent, dear.
With cold corpses, they are filling
The beautiful earth--Still no sound, o Dear!

Don't talk, don't cry;
Surely, they'll hear.
Keep two eyes dry;
If...

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Categories: 12th grade, allegory, death,

Book: Shattered Sighs