Best Dead Body Poems
Below are the all-time best Dead Body poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of dead body poems written by PoetrySoup members
There Lies ArtThe easel beholds a half finishing painting
The paints beside have all hardened
Pain reflected in the partial emptiness
Staring back at that gathered crowd
The sun melts on...
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Categories:
dead body, art, death, drink, lonely,
Form:
Free verse
Comparison Between Byron and Me On FrancescaI was pushed to write this comparison after reading the poem on Byron by the souper poet Gary Bateman.
Wandering on internet I found the Byron's...
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Categories:
dead body, fantasy, poetry,
Form:
Terza Rima
Categories:
dead body, poetry,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Fatherless ChildThere once was a day I would watch every airplane.
Praying you was on it to come take me away.
As a child I wanted you around...
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Categories:
dead body, childhood, daughter, depression, faith,
Form:
Light Verse
Parody of Flanders and SwannParody of The Gas Man Cometh by Flanders and Swann
It was on a Monday morning the boiler man came to call
Said he’d return with spare...
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Categories:
dead body, humorous, parody,
Form:
Couplet
The Colleen Bawn- Ellen HanleyYoung Ellen Hanley caught John Scanlon’s eye
He was determined that she’d be his wife
Their marriage was cursed and Ellen would die
On the River Shannon she...
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Categories:
dead body, death, ireland, marriage, murder,
Form:
Sonnet
Suicide and the Butterfly BoySuicide my untimely death
I can no longer take another breath
I feel empty inside
No one hears my cries
I do not know how to handle this
It is...
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Categories:
dead body, loss, son, boy,
Form:
Free verse
Mill WheelThe Mill wheel wouldn't turn until the Spring
The yellow tape defines it a crime scene
Similar to one in 1930
Locals watch police investigating
The 1840 gristmill's...
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Categories:
dead body, adventure, humorous, imagery, mystery,
Form:
Rhyme
Lament of My LifeHow regretful was I
To see my dead body from the sky
How regretful indeed
Why, with utmost sorrow, did my spirit bleed
In my early thirties was I...
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Categories:
dead body, death, life, paradise,
Form:
Rhyme
SuicideDeath
Depression
And You, Suicide
I cry
But
I don’t cry an ocean
I cry
But I don’t cry a river
I cry
But you can’t see my tears
Because
You don’t know that I cry
One...
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Categories:
dead body, 7th grade, death, deep,
Form:
Free verse
Reason and HintI was feeling restless and empty
And I was feeling low.
All I believed was a white paper
An ordinary pen did do.
I wanted to put a question,...
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Categories:
dead body, bereavement,
Form:
Free verse
Final Punctuationmoribund she wondered what
the postmortem would leave
other than a dead body and wounds
made by the many scalpels of life
operations gone wrong and stitch-ups
with sutures festering...
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Categories:
dead body, death,
Form:
Free verse
No Massage PleaseShe is super, she says. After I leave there, I feel great!
This is my friend Louise who is trying to convince me to sign...
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Categories:
dead body, for her,
Form:
Free verse
Took Cab To See Dull and Drab Cold SlabWe went in a cab to see cold slab,
That did appear to be dull and drab;
Letters were distinct when viewed;
So much sadness there we...
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Categories:
dead body, allegory, analogy,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
Adoption into SonshipEphesians 1:5-6 NIV?
[5] he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will— [6] to the praise of...
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Categories:
dead body, faith,
Form:
Rhyme