Best Afterworld Poems
Below are the all-time best Afterworld poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of afterworld poems written by PoetrySoup members
Categories:
afterworld, death, loss, nature,
Form:
Haiku
AfterworldWalking in the cold void,
Armies retreating in paranoid...
Families living in pride,
Flag honouring the patriotic souls...
Medals of honour for the call of duty.
Cold...
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Categories:
afterworld, adventure, faith, war, world,
Form:
Free verse
Sailor At SeaSometimes I feel like I am just slipping away. Slide me in the water like a dead man at sea. I can feel...
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Categories:
afterworld, allusion, death, farewell,
Form:
Narrative
SlowlyThe entire time we spent
Searching through ruins and sands
For a reason or just
An answer that would
Allow us to sleep
But the rain
Didn't come to save us...
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Categories:
afterworld, magic, math, memory,
Form:
I do not know?
She Sits AloneTwo gazes crossed in the crowded room
Discreetly, without being discovered
Sending a message that only someone
Who is in love decodes its meaning
Sometimes eyes reveal...
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Categories:
afterworld, love,
Form:
Free verse
Addictive Ampoules Annihilate After Alluringamphetamines acquaintanceship assuages
agonizing aches also advocates amorousness
assiduously activating admiration
aggressive attacks assault afoul
affable affinity and affectionadumbration
anatomical accidental addiction attested as academic,
although afterward abnegation absolutely...
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Categories:
afterworld, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form:
Alliteration
PeyoteShadows dance upon the plains as spirits speak their prayers
In the light of the flickering flames they reflect in flares
Smoke and ash, they hint their...
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Categories:
afterworld, imagination, native american, nature,
Form:
I do not know?
On This Life's Sorrowful Barge I Doth FloatOn this
Life’s sorrowful
barge I doth float
Much too
much a traveler
Alas too far
remote
from any
hearing and
caring Being
Caining
me...
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Categories:
afterworld, son, song-lyric
Form:
Free verse
The Heart's Malcontent EyeSecluded mind murder
Windows are false inside here
I find here,deep inside here...i don't find myself hoping for peace
These clouds of despair that blind the battlefield have...
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Categories:
afterworld, angst, art, confusion, death,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Of the Coming Firethe skelton of the watch
a vigil for the passing dead
things left unfed
wraiths wander on
watching wanting waiting
guiding the blind in to the light
the...
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Categories:
afterworld, age, allegory, allusion, analogy,
Form:
Free verse
NumbDo they see how I feel?
Hate is all I see in their eyes.
My body has no feeling at all.
Numb.
I can’t feel the pain that
They...
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Categories:
afterworld, angst, depression, body,
Form:
I do not know?
Eternal Flame [ Minus One Stanza and Envoi ]The wicked world, in this age is full of sin,
All youth have a lust for the obscene;
The hour has come to cleanse the skin,
Our bodies,...
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Categories:
afterworld, death, fantasy, imagination, life,
Form:
Chant Royal
Skin Color Is a ThingUntil I got to college I had never heard the term black or white.
Because I was not listening possibly, or more so that I never...
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Categories:
afterworld, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Free verse
Dastardly DispiritedSadness within me is my skald,
Ignorant world, taunting my afterworld,
Why is my soul in this soil pinfold...
The sky is filled with dark enshroud,
Am dumbstruck,...
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Categories:
afterworld, abuse, betrayal, courage, lost
Form:
Rhyme
AnubisAnubis
Life to death to afterlife
Anubis closes the sarcophagus
With words of farewell
To the mummy enclosed within,
“Expand your horizon
or shrink your vision
this perception
will be your universe,
and when...
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Categories:
afterworld, bereavement, death, religion, spiritual,
Form:
Verse