Best Death Poems
Below are the all-time best Death poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of death poems written by PoetrySoup members
Death of the Poet Destroyer~The Untold Fatal Attraction Poem~
Mid-morning she sees the sun ahead
Her death flowed in a messaged bottle
Gazing into her brown eyes upon all open sores,
Her conscience...
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Categories:
birth, change, conflict, death,
Form:
Ballad
A Near Death Experience of a Sweetheart "A Near-Death Experience of A Sweetheart"
Floating through a corridor between two different Worlds
among white fluffy clouds and shimmering stars awhile wind...
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Categories:
death, death, god, death,
Form:
Rhyme
Indian InkINDIAN INK
Indian Accent, form the whispers inside
Chanting from long ago
Echoes come and go
Losing time in a soft eternal glow
A beautiful and delicate autumn mountain scene
Dry...
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Categories:
abuse, autumn, death, deep,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Categories:
death, love, rose,
Form:
Personification
Reflection**REFLECTION**
Running through a wheat dream
Clear skies, worms and flies, my face cries
Surrounded by silver streams
I stumbled into a valley where sleepness never dies
A manger on...
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Categories:
abuse, death, for her,
Form:
Epic
The RoseThis is not a poem about a rose
Nor a poem about diligence and beauty
Today, I sit and stare at the walls
Walls that...
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Categories:
absence, allusion, death, depression,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
BrokenOn a special Suicidal Night,
I sit alone inside this nightmare
In a nightmare with no windows
Nobody can see me
I can see nobody
Flowers, above
My eyes...
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Categories:
absence, death, emo, emotions,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Black Diamond NightBlack Diamond Night (a coal miner’s cemetery)
Where the ebony, we call “NIGHT”,
Old black rocks sit under the twilight
Diamond shape eyes unclear and lonely,
Sinister...
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Categories:
body, death, history, lonely,
Form:
Epic
Forgotten Heroes of the SommeOver the top lads, for old Blighty! Hold the colours high!
Say a little prayer for me, for this summer day we die.
My brothers from the...
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Categories:
brother, death, history, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Starry Starry Night - POTWPOTW
When Wishes were made on a shooting star
The Heavens looked down and smiled
With sprinkles of stardust on a whisper of moonbeams
They created for us a...
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Categories:
death, anti bullying, art, beauty,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
To All the Heart Breakers -A Zombie's ValentineWouldn't you rather~
Wouldn't you rather be dead?
Maybe shoot yourself in the head?
Over my dead heart, I'd never want to be a zombie like you.
The sight...
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Categories:
anger, death, horror, humorous,
Form:
Free verse
Sleepless NightTeardrops, bagged eyes, a way of sin
The mirror reveals a lost eternal soul
A conniving move against tonight's phantom glow
Voices circle the insomniac moon
Like magic and...
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Categories:
anger, anti bullying, death,
Form:
Epic
Courage of Youth, Battle of Ypres, Flanders FieldCourage of Youth, Battle of Ypres, Flanders Field
(A Tribute)
Tough as nails young man with a red right hand
red-fire and whiskey ran in his blood.
Courageous seed...
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Categories:
conflict, death, fate, sorrow,
Form:
Sonnet
In Strangler's WoodIn forest's night, the trees bend low
beneath a slice of half moon’s glow;
silent shadows waver...
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Categories:
death,
Form:
Rhyme
Eternal Life and the Total Self
Life is but a fleeting whisper echoing through time,
never dying, always being- magnificent and sublime.
The body's a receptacle, a superficial shell,
but in it dwells the...
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Categories:
death,
Form:
Rhyme