Best Afterlife Poems
Below are the all-time best Afterlife poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of afterlife poems written by PoetrySoup members
The Clouds"HOLDING HIS HAND"
*The Voice*
God, can I hold your hand and follow you?
"God's voice"
My child, it is I who will walk with you! You walked down...
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Categories:
afterlife, angel, beautiful, beauty, blessing,
Form:
Narrative
An Omen of the Taste of TwilightVanished
the wild magic of this place;
this wilderness I now roam alone
as its lifeblood seeps
into
Afterlife
..my mournful howls
across time and distance
go unanswered -
Oh, how I...
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Categories:
afterlife, animal, death, fate, grief,
Form:
Free verse
Rebirth of the Third AngelA body abandoned
needs to mourns its last breath in death
a heart cast aside
still aches to meet its last beat
and a free spirit yearns...
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Categories:
afterlife, angel, beauty, butterfly, death,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
afterlife, beauty, death, flying, freedom,
Form:
Free verse
Illuminations of Wonder and Warmthfrom the sky’s black velvet cloak
points of light emanate
drawing the wonder of all who see
but are these sequin stars
or tears in the fabric of...
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Categories:
afterlife, spiritual, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
afterlife, myth,
Form:
Rhyme
As I Dreamhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeJWKSbbq68
There beyond the afterlife a glimpse of a passing star
an orbing light that flickers in submergence with the dawn
The memories of a life exuding...
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Categories:
afterlife, lost love,
Form:
Rhyme
Nevermore Will Raven Return*Note: A 60-year annual tradition that involved a mysterious visitor leaving three
roses at the grave of writer Edgar Allan Poe on the anniversary...
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Categories:
afterlife, mysteryhouse, loss, birthday, grave,
Form:
Narrative
Whisper of DeathMy life spirals ever downward...
The grave taunts me with its laugh.
Death's bony fingers are affixed my throat
As the jester of my unmerited epitaph.
My angst at...
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Categories:
afterlife, angst, confusion, death,
Form:
Rhyme
Doublethink Beliefs This Life
From a child taught Catholic creed,
drilled, drilled into me by school nuns;
those teachings will never recede,
but, since those days I have lived...
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Categories:
afterlife, life,
Form:
Quatrain
The ChildA child lights our way in life...
The greatest gift there is to be.
They suppress our selfish inclinations...
They set our passions free.
They give sense to our...
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Categories:
afterlife, children, love, passion,
Form:
Rhyme
The Bard Visits 2023Awakening with heart and mind a-spin,
methought midst some psychotic malady.
"What hellish afterlife am I now in"?
Yon passerby said "2023".
Eyes fixed on "mobile phones" with no...
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Categories:
afterlife, society,
Form:
Sonnet
Celeste RomanceI gaze at those fireflies in
your butter-sweet eyes that shine,
succulent with white lush pulp
of love's purity,
you hue my wildflower heart
with hyacinth, as we twirl
like spring-shaded...
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Categories:
afterlife, deep, emotions, fantasy, first
Form:
Dodoitsu
Can You See?
I can’t see the muses,
Before they steal my heart.
There are simply no excuses,
For the wonder they impart.
I can’t see the wind,
Before it attacks the calm,
Leaving...
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Categories:
afterlife, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, christian,
Form:
Rhyme
A Rum n Raisin Special - Seeking MiltonTheir human ma and pa were spark out in reclining chairs
But Rum and Raisin watched the TV with enraptured stares
The western had just ended with...
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Categories:
afterlife, cat, remember,
Form:
Narrative