Best Dead Man Poems
Below are the all-time best Dead Man poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of dead man poems written by PoetrySoup members
The Dead Man and the Loud HenI shall delete my existence says the dead man
No more do I breathe
No more shall I rant
Although often I recant
I shall delete all my poems...
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Categories:
dead man, children, hilarious, muse,
Form:
Light Verse
Working Out Isn't Working OutI used to like barbells, enjoyed pumping iron,
my Nautilus* gym was one happy environ.
Those posters of 6-packs and marbled biceps
...
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Categories:
dead man, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Recollections of a Condemned Man - Collaboration With Robert Lindley178 months, 129940 hours,
now only 10 minutes remain.
Sitting in cold eerie darkness,
he observes the rhythm of water drops,
slowly wipes away streams of sweat
with his withered...
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Categories:
dead man, death,
Form:
Free verse
The man upstairs
Keys rattle,
door slowly closes ...
An echo of footsteps walk upstairs..
You can hear his bedroom door close,
a little bump as he sits on his bed,
then there...
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Categories:
dead man, emotions, loneliness, missing,
Form:
Free verse
I Love You, Old ManI once had knew a man
Who became older than a dead man
A tired soul, he was.
Looked like he'd never seen a bed
...
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Categories:
dead man, age, dad, emotions, grandchild,
Form:
Rhyme
I Robbed GodI was once a thief, never done for Stealing guns,
or knives. Money, laundering offences, or Somebody’s wife.
I robbed God of tithes that I must...
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Categories:
dead man, faithgod, god,
Form:
I do not know?
A Dead Man's BoatA dead man’s boat
rowed itself from isle to isle,
dragging its dead man in its wake,
partially submerged, their tether tenuous,
yet somehow never broken.
Past The Isle Of...
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Categories:
dead man, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
MutinyI dedicate this poem to Thomas Cunningham,
who I admire for the tales he tells in poetry form.
MUTINY
I stands at the bow
Proud to lead
I get...
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Categories:
dead man, sea,
Form:
Narrative
Son of NainOff to Nain, Jesus, his disciples and the crowd.
See the gate! Approach the fate of Nain.
Coming out of the gate, a widow, and a crowd.
Her...
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Categories:
dead man, christian, miracle,
Form:
Verse
Dead Mans Eyes PtsdDo you ever see me?
I see you every night.
I see your lifeless body under the street lights.
I hear you mom screaming let him...
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Categories:
dead man, anxiety, death, fear, mother,
Form:
Bio
These DaysMet with you the first time, knowing not what I had just found.
Working days and nights beside you, walking unit’s hard ground.
Helping one another in...
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Categories:
dead man, appreciation, christian, friend, god,
Form:
Couplet
Death of a Love OneI had a wonderful day, what could have went wrong
Went to sleep feeling like a brand new man
Laying in bed, sleeping so peacefully
Two guys walked...
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Categories:
dead man, death, depression, funeral, loss,
Form:
Elegy
Dead Men Do Tell TalesDead Man Tells Tales
I saw, the rot of selfish desires,
burning endlessly in clever fires
Piles of cash a mountain high
stolen by those...
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Categories:
dead man, blessing, conflict, dark, evil,
Form:
Rhyme
An Act of TerrorismThe attack on a shopping centre, is a crime against humanity
And yet we to continue to ignore, this ongoing brutality
You must always show a strong...
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Categories:
dead man, death, murder, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Chicken Little's Sad Demise - Fable(7/5 Trochee Poem)
Chicken Little, thinking that
sky was soon to fall,
saw a mortuary and
crawled beneath a pall.
He was in a strange dark box
where a dead...
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Categories:
dead man,
Form:
Quatrain