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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


Premium Member There Lies Art
The 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



Premium Member Comparison Between Byron and Me On Francesca
I 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
A Dark Cloud
A Dark Cloud  
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Categories: dead body, poetry,
Form: Prose Poetry
Fatherless Child
There 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
Premium Member Parody of Flanders and Swann
Parody 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



Premium Member The Colleen Bawn- Ellen Hanley
Young 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 Boy
Suicide 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
Premium Member Mill Wheel
The 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
Premium Member Lament of My Life
How 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
Suicide
Death
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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© Sil Ng  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dead body, 7th grade, death, deep,
Form: Free verse
Reason and Hint
I 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
Premium Member Final Punctuation
moribund 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
Premium Member No Massage Please
She 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 Slab
We 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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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dead body, allegory, analogy,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member Adoption into Sonship
Ephesians 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

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