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Best Accident Poems

Below are the all-time best Accident poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of accident poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Survivors Guilt
It's been ten long years now since that awful tragedy
When a stranger I didn't know, gave his life to save me
I was on the edge...

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Categories: accident, death, grief, how i
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Love Sleeps, Never Dies
An old man
A Grumpy bitter old man
Bitter face
Red nose
Wrinkled beady eyes
Scruffy clothes his best attire

Life has not been kind
So his bitter words bite those around
He...

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Categories: accident, angel, beauty, child, hope,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Winter's Antidote
O Winter, why this desolation? Trees, once verdant now stand bare
Flowers, long in hibernation; clouds that frown with ominous stare,
Bleak winds chill the rain-soaked bones...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: accident, bereavement, community, death, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Comb-edy of Hair-ers
My dear brother Butch,

Hair are the highlights of my week:
I got a job at the Hairway to Heaven salon!
Our motto: "We color your hair or...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: accident, hair, humor,
Form: Light Verse
The Cross
How can it be that He who knew no sin
Should suffer searing pain upon the cross
And crowned with mocking thorns which pierced his skin
Exchange love’s...

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Categories: accident, christian, love,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Would You Still Love Me
Would you still love me ... perchance I was half a man?
     My carnal, physical core torn from me like ragged...

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Categories: accident, analogy, love, relationship, together,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mission of the Yellow Songbird
Mission of the Yellow Songbird

A long highway road stretched its legs before me,
In a place where tumble weeds were conceived,
December evening chasing daylight back to...

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Categories: accident, bird, blessing,
Form: Free verse
How About This For Veterans Day
How About This for Veterans Day

A monthly Monday morning military meeting
Would be great for them as way of greeting
Talking about things happening another day
Of past...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: accident, patriotic,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Death My Pal
Death,
An old friend, as old as life,
We met soon after my birth 
He liked to play games with me 
“Be ready,” he said. “I am...

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Categories: accident, death, fear, life,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member I, the Clone
I, The Clone

     So that I would not live alone,
     My parents thought I should be a...

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Categories: accident, humorous, me, satire,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Twas the Night Before Christmas
'Twas the night before Christmas
when I and my groom
finally found a motel 
but with just one room.

My groom was in the bathroom -
leaving me alone-
so...

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Categories: accident, funny, holiday, me,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Where Did the Years Go
Remember years ago, when you were fit
Now you can't stand too long, before you have to sit
And all the times that you ran to catch...

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Categories: accident, age, old, retirement,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hit and Run
EMOTIVE WRITE

I never had the chance to meet my Mummy
She was killed in an accident … they couldn’t save her
Hit and run that’s what Daddy...

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Categories: accident, death, grief, heartbreak, heaven,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Heavens' Doorway
One day there was an accident, and to heavens gate I was called.
As an angel sat down beside me, upon the bed I had been...

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Categories: accident, death, faith, god, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member It Appears I'Ve Disappeared
A lot of acquaintances deemed me lucky, and I knew I was,
For I had a successful life, when all could have been chaos.

I had a...

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Categories: accident, art, confusion, fantasy, happiness,
Form: Couplet

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