Best Death Sad Poems
What More Can We DoHaunted by the death of dreams
and slaughtering of innocence
but too afraid to dig up the bones
and examine our own mistakes,
we bury our heads instead,
blindly following greedy leaders
who give nothing but hollow words
and meaningless moments of silence. ...
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Categories:
death sad, anger, children, death, sad,
Form:
Free verse
I Pass the GraveyardI pass the graveyard deep in snow.
One woman at a headstone weeps
all dressed in black like winter crows
as memories in warmth she keeps.
While icicles from boughs hang low
one woman at a headstone weeps.
Still muted angels' trumpets blow
and 'cross the powder darkness creeps
while icicles from boughs...
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Categories:
death sad, death, sad love, winter,
Form:
Terzanelle
Crosses In the NightThey rise up before me, marbled stones like the stars
are embracing the evening, while they shatter the heart
Scattered fields, vast and somber, keeping silent the valiant
who have fallen so bravely, while forsaking the cost
Many names are forgotten, and some have been lost
New crosses...
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Categories:
death sad, bereavement, death, sad, soldier,
Form:
Free verse
An Old AshtrayThere's an old ashtray in the middle of the room,
half filled with ashes and half filled with gloom.
A reminder of things burning away,
like a mind filled with memories, too many to stay.
It's sitting next to an old photo book,
frozen inside are the smiles that were...
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Categories:
death sad, age, death, sad,
Form:
Rhyme
Famous Last LineSTAND BY ME
Oh my darling the news is so bleak
I saw the consultant only last week
Think we better start making plans
See the vicar; hear the wedding banns
All I’ve ever wanted was to be your wife
For better for worse, through trouble and strife
The consultant confirmed I’ll...
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Categories:
death sad, death, sad love, wedding,
Form:
Rhyme
Past the Graveyard: RondeauPast the graveyard deep in snow
where icicles from boughs hang low
one woman at a headstone weeps
as memories in warmth she keeps,
all dressed in black like winter crows.
Still muted angels' trumpets blow
where frost on trees like lichens grow
and 'cross the powder darkness creeps
past the graveyard.
As by...
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Categories:
death sad, death, sad love, winter,
Form:
Rondeau
The Red BabushkaNineteen twenty-four and the wind was cold,
When men in uniform entered our town;
Forced us to leave in their boxcars,
Made us believe that it was for our own safety.
With no time to fix our things
We hurriedly got in the box.
And when everyone was in,
The doors were...
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Categories:
death sad, death, sad, old, angel,
Form:
Free verse
Eve of EternityShe couldn't contain her rhapsody demeanor much more
hugging her husband and gushing with excitement as he closed the door
the third class cabin was modest but she thought it would do
finally spending time together in this steerage cabin room
After dining together and playing cards with some...
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Categories:
death sad, boat, death, sad love,
Form:
Rhyme
To Be Where She Is
Ghosts have all but abandoned this lonely place. It's just me here. The cold, drizzling rain is relentless, yet calming somehow. Marble stones lodged in leafy pastures keep taunting me. Autumn was her favorite season; the rainbow of colors, the tantalizing smell of decay. Odd...
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Categories:
death sad, death, sad,
Form:
Haibun
Me, Looking Back At MeBOOM!! Explosion,
fire, smoke, serene...
As I realize what has happened;
Just what i've done to me...
Focusing, I regain clear vision;
As i'm gazing straight towards me,
I see myself, Bloodied;
Crumpled in a seat...
I...
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Categories:
death sad, confusion, death, sad,
Form:
Rhyme
Shifting Relentless Time(FICTION, PLEASE. It is easy for me to write in the first person, but nearly all my poems are fiction. Please don't attribute this poem to me. I loved my wife to distraction. For ten years she was sick and I...
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Categories:
death sad, abuse, angst, betrayal, death,
Form:
Free verse
Tribute To Harambe, the GorillaHarambe, living in captivity-
mock forest of the Cincinnati Zoo,
within our human world, well as can be,
beneath those peering eyes, that visit you.
And what bad fate for you when suddenly,
no fault of yours, a child falls in your space.
At first, you seemed to act quite caringly;
you...
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Categories:
death sad, animal, death, sad, tribute,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
Categories:
death sad, child, death, sad, teacher,
Form:
Haiku
Heroin HeroAlone; as you lie on your bed
The stars brighten, serene
Such an ecstatically lovely scene
While these visions float in your head
Imagining hues of purple: divisions of colorful red
Teardrop sparks sprinkle the room
All around in sweetness croon
The words unheard, not said.
Beauty beheld in radiant...
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Categories:
death sad, death, sad, sympathy, sweet,
Form:
Free verse
With Poppy Red I Paint It BlackFeeling rife with satisfaction, I paint it black,
hours, minutes, seconds, let it bleed as tears go by.
Time waits for no one, she’s so cold - no looking back;
wild horses in my veins and I’m a fool to cry.
Hours, minutes, seconds, let it bleed. As...
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Categories:
death sad, addiction, death, sad, suicide,
Form:
Pantoum