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Best Dead Person Poems

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Premium Member Remember To Keep On Loving and Never Die
Keeploving "This is "One Word" .Do you as a poet "Hear it as "Oneword"? I hear it ,and now you as a poet can hear...

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Categories: dead person, 12th grade, 4th grade,
Form: Ballad



Written In the Stars
If loving you is wrong
I don't ever want to right.
If loving you is a sin
I outrightly reject righteousness.
If loving you is disobedience
I give in to...

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Categories: dead person, friendship, love, passion,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member When At Her Sepulchre I Heard Her Ask
When At Her Sepulchre I Heard Her Ask

From her sepulchre she sent her calls
or was it from my darkest midnight walls.
Yet in those calls, mixed...

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Categories: dead person, art, dark, death, deep,
Form: Sonnet
Solitary Life Part Ii

Solitary Life  story/poem

He was able to get up and was able to walk. Now he
was thinking to himself - maybe I did the wrong...

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Categories: dead person, inspirational,
Form: Narrative
The Deconstruction of the Dead
& when you finally die,
they will not let you rest---
for to finally get to enter every orifice
of your once secret world
is something that vultures dream...

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Categories: dead person, life, drug,
Form: Free verse



For Today Is
Since it’s such a nice and beautiful day 
why not become a piece of cloud myself
or a stream of water, and go.

If it happens to...

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© Su Ben  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dead person, imagery, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Twisted Dna
although a group of people sustain their lives beautifying 
everything surrounding them 
insisting that everything is good 
because they are God’s creation

while another group of...

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© Su Ben  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dead person, language, life, men, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
My Poems Pacify Me
MY POEMS PACIFY ME

It’s welcome pouring my feelings here
The wind that blows off my feeling here has no landing
With a strong hand that blows me...

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Categories: dead person, me, pain, violence, writing,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Mcgillicuddy's Wake
Two new crutches and two double shots of Bushmills Irish Whiskey enabled Joe Faherty to move from the back seat of Moira Murphy's 1976 Buick...

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Categories: dead person, death of a friend,
Form: Prose
Letter To a Friend
Dear friend
Where do I begin? 
I got so much on my mind
Sometimes I wonder where we stand
But my emotions is bout to explode
Like a volcano...

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Categories: dead person, confusion, death, depression, friendship,
Form: Lyric
My Grandmother's Wounds
I am being thrown from the depths of centuries
Carrying all my grandmothers’ wounds
Combat boots marked my head  with terror
my back  bruised with the...

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© Rahy Hy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dead person, abuse, grandmother, islamic, lost
Form: Free verse
Dead
Dead


Dead person does not harm 
Or love any one
Why people scare of them!
After death

Surgeon knows dead person 
Does not oppose
While dissects corpse

Difference between the dead
And...

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Categories: dead person, art, future, grave, irony,
Form: ABC
Selfish Cry At Death
"Grief exist in thoughts. 
With a shift in thoughts they end"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

When someone close dies we cry
How will I live without that person
Thinking so our tears...

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Categories: dead person, death,
Form: Pantoum
Asian Poverty
Someone asked Buddha "Are you god or human?"
 Buddha replied , "I dont know, but while the world was sleeping I woke up"
 I tried...

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Categories: dead person, betrayal, dark, innocence,
Form: Free verse
Just Draw
If you want to paint a panel
This is not impossible
Put two beaches
And their mold
Formation of the Palm
Falling from leaves
Like in a fight with the wind
In...

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Categories: dead person, arabic, art, baby, beach,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things