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Best Dead Man Poems

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Premium Member The Dead Man and the Loud Hen
I 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



Premium Member Working Out Isn't Working Out
I 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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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dead man, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Recollections of a Condemned Man - Collaboration With Robert Lindley
178 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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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dead man, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dead man, emotions, loneliness, missing,
Form: Free verse
I Love You, Old Man
I 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 God
I 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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© Abraham L  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dead man, faithgod, god,
Form: I do not know?
A Dead Man's Boat
A 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
Premium Member Mutiny
I 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
Premium Member Son of Nain
Off 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 Ptsd
Do 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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© Chris Day  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dead man, anxiety, death, fear, mother,
Form: Bio
Premium Member These Days
Met 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 One
I 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
Premium Member Dead Men Do Tell Tales
Dead 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
Premium Member An Act of Terrorism
The 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
Premium Member 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

Book: Shattered Sighs