Best Dying Poems
Below are the all-time best Dying poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of dying poems written by PoetrySoup members
The Sacred Art of Dyingdarkness come caress me now
and as I die I weep
my body lies here limp and
cold
I prepare myself for eternal
sleep
a million miles of...
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Categories:
dying, deathme, me,
Form:
Rhyme
Umbrella*I Will Cry*
If this world really mattered,
Why does it bleed?
I could tell you how much I love you,
But, that will never heal the pain.
I am...
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Categories:
dying, beautiful, cry, rain,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
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:
dying, death,
Form:
Rhyme
Love In the Silence of the SoulAs a young boy
Sitting in a pew
The winter darkness pressing down
Candlelight waves from hidden drafts
Shadows danced on the walls
I heard the words destined to me
“Be...
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Categories:
dying, death, love, sorrow,
Form:
Narrative
The Best Poem Ever~The best poem ever~
Without saying a word I’m going to go where no one has gone before.
A twilight zone, only God and I know of....
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Categories:
dying, death, words, heart, heart,
Form:
Epic
One RegretNow walking through the autumn of my life
Where maple leaves have turned from green to gold
I watch them fall in breezes turning cold
In a whirl-wind...
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Categories:
dying, introspection, life,
Form:
Sonnet
Land of LightsA sweep of milky waves flood onyx sands
converging under endless summer skies
of northern lights in iridescent bands
Icelandic talismans of tales sublime.
A glassy sea of crystalline...
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Categories:
dying, beauty, nature,
Form:
Sonnet
listen to life -
have you not heard me?
borne upon the air at dusk, dancing ... I have whispered you in a million voices
still, you...
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Categories:
dying, life, philosophy, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
So Soft Is the Sonnet of WillowsThis is a very long poem and I will understand if you choose not to spend the time reading it.
It is something I wrote...
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Categories:
dying, life, longing, love,
Form:
Rhyme
The Red Leafthe raspy whisper
finally
gets my full attention -
wistfully I smile
..for its persistence reminds me of you..
the crisp red leaf
scuttles scrapingly
across the gray pavement
to and...
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Categories:
dying, death, emotions, grief, heartbroken,
Form:
Free verse
The Enchanted ForestThe woods were silent except for the shifting
soft sounds of his hooves as they fell upon
the forest floor. There he stood amid the...
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Categories:
dying, adventure, fairy, fantasy, horse,
Form:
Narrative
Where Gladiators FoughtPart I
Where gladiators fought for life,
we meet to fight for love
The constellations in the Roman night sky,
celestial spectators, bathe the Colosseum
in the white blood of...
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Categories:
dying, passion, places,
Form:
Epic
Tears On Her Pillow - Continued From a Girl Named Sue
Tears for a Mother
Fears for a Father gone
Fate deals an unfair hand
The door to youthful joy closing
on adolescent shoulders imposing
grown up responsibilities instead
Eyes sadly deprived...
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Categories:
dying, fate, first love, hope,
Form:
Free verse
Forget Our Hearts VisionsNow that only forgotten promises remain,
sounds of solitude are gifts I wish to obtain.
Sentiments are temporary in a world full of change,
affections are wasted in...
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Categories:
dying, emotions, heartbroken, lost love,
Form:
Lyric
Texian Macabre ArenaThe First Texian Macabre Arena Ballad (The extended free-fallen edition)
In another life, is where I first saw your face!
One summer afternoon, lying wounded next...
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Categories:
dying, pride, sin, sorrow, symbolism,
Form:
Ballad