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Best Grim Reaper Poems

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Premium Member The Grim Reaper Cometh
As All Hallows’ Eve approacheth my thoughts turneth to darkest dread,
Whilst in old age I harboureth a deep fear of seeing this one’s grim head;
Methinks...

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Categories: grim reaper, allegory, dark, evil, fantasy,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Old Man
Silently he sat in darkness, flinching at the sight of light.
Which created a glow reflecting on his balding head.
His cold glare did not help my...

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Categories: grim reaper, angst, dark, life,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Ethereal
"At the end of my life, with just one breath left, if you come then, I'll sit up and sing. That cannot now be said...

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Categories: grim reaper, assonance, death, loss,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Forget Our Hearts Visions
Now 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: grim reaper, emotions, heartbroken, lost love,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Poetry Numbs the Pain
One day we will be, forever silent.
Where would we be without poetry?

As a child, I buried my heart,
drained from games death would play -
in adulthood,...

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Categories: grim reaper, childhood, emotions, life, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Silence of a Poet
"When the Grim Reaper asked for my spirit,
I told him to take my poetic pen.
He walked away smiling, leaving me illiterate."

In the mystical wilderness of...

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Categories: grim reaper, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Interlude
"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood." 
Ralph Waldo Emerson

In this performance we call life,
my spirit searches for an...

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Categories: grim reaper, angst, death, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dancing With Death
A raven sits alone, perched upon a tombstone,
humming an eerie tone, which is sombrely known.
This deadly treachery is disturbing my reverie.
A shadowy energy, ready for...

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Categories: grim reaper, death, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Heartbeats
Thump, thump...thump, thump
Your heart beats with internal impediment
Making each breath a struggle.
I see your pain,  I feel your anguish,
I dearly love your determination to...

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Categories: grim reaper, angst, care, devotion, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Empathy of Elements with Ink Empress
When life parades a fine line 
between alienation and rationality,
internal intruders of the soul shroud spotlights.

In my dreams 
I'm playing charades with the grim reaper.
surrounded...

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Categories: grim reaper, analogy, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Night Owl
Sitting by her open window
Was a girl deep in thought,
Lost within a book of Poe
A perfect poem she sought

With a curious eye
He watches her pen,
For...

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Categories: grim reaper, bird, moon, mystery, night,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Out of the Sun
Stayed 
             in the sun 
       ...

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Categories: grim reaper, absence, age, angst, car,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member At the Seat of the Catacombs of Amygdala
 
"At the Seat of the Catacombs of Amygdala"



 
"...the curse ruled from the underground down by the shore
And their hope grew with a hunger...

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Categories: grim reaper, daughter, imagery, journey, loss,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Hanging
The jury was unanimous
Twelve cried out justice
Guilty
It was just before the changing hour
The hanging planned for quarter past midnight or so
The moon was full, the...

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Categories: grim reaper, betrayal, depression, evil, ireland,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Dead People Don'T Cry
When life is this tough, you may long to die.
The Grim Reaper beckons, like he's your friend.
Try to remember, dead people don't cry.

A bad beginning,...

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Categories: grim reaper, depression, night, people, dark,
Form: Lanterne

Book: Reflection on the Important Things