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Best Life Death Poems

Below are the all-time best Life Death poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of life death poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member God Gave You a Second Chance
God Gave You a Second Chance
 Not ready to leave this world with unfinished business determining the souls color; you’re on borrowed time! Prayers to...

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Categories: life death, hope, husband, inspirational, wife,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member I Will Rage Against the Dying of the Light
I will NOT "go gentle into that good night"
I will "rage, rage against the dying of the light"

For life was not meant to end in...

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Categories: life death, death, life, life, death,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Chilled Dawn
She is shadowed by fuzzy cobwebs of a morning without coffee,
while dust motes mingle with the mold of time.
Gazing out to the yard, through dingy...

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Categories: life death, dark, death, farewell, loss,
Form: Verse
Violence In Video Games
There was a loud explosion, followed by shouts of glee
The rat-a-tat-tat of gunshot, was suddenly surrounding me
It was much to my horror that my husband...

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Categories: life death, life, death, husband, death,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Why Am I Here
Why am I here?
I often wonder why I was born. I know of no purpose for me! I call myself an earth angel but truth...

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Categories: life death, death, faith, imagination, life,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



For Carlos Fuentes
What shames death, more than a man who refuses to die once born?
So much so that when death claims, the aim is unknown, 
When the...

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Categories: life death, life, death, death, life,
Form: Epitaph
The Years To Long From Before
The Years To Long From Before


How the years go by from the time your just learning to walk till the time you walk out of...

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Categories: life death, family, children, day, life,
Form: Light Verse
Walking Corpse
A man does not die because 
there is no ether
A man does not die because there is 
no life
A man does die unless his soul...

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Categories: life death, life, death, death,
Form: Free verse
Happy Life ,A Simple and Short Poem
I  want a happy life
Till my death 
So I think every night 
As my death 
And every morning 
As my rebirth...

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Categories: life death, life, death, death,
Form: Light Verse
A Simple Life
If only life were as simple as the rising sun and the setting moon
The cold of winter and the early spring bloom
If life were so...

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Categories: life death, hope, life, philosophy, life,
Form: I do not know?
We Beat Until We Battered
We sometimes drink and smoke so much We get beat until we are battered 
Our dreams were like one giant wall of glass where upon...

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Categories: life death, dedication, depression, inspirational, introspection,
Form: Alliteration
Lost In Thought
Now who would of thought the thoughts that would truly get the mind lost in fragile thought?
 So much on our known life, 
about unknown...

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Categories: life death, adventure, native american, on
Form: Acrostic
The Thirst
The thirst 

 

Everything has remained fragile tonight
Dream suffer steady but don´t drivel
Pain on the wall ranges around the axle
Shadows of chairs inquisicion of sun...

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Categories: life death, life, death, death,
Form: Lyric
Letter To a Sore Brother Beautiful Sister Dedicated To My Brothers and Sisters Love
LETTER TO A SORE BROTHER, BEAUTIFUL SISTER (DEDICATED TO MY BROTHER’S AND SISTER’S LOVE)
 Early jungle makes me a desire
To be alone in the belly...

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Categories: life death, family, forgiveness, friendship, life,
Form: Sonnet
'kasa' - Life and Death 1
Live your Good Life, knowing GOD is Good always unto death 
What are we here for? to Die, so get Ready
Am not afraid of Death...

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Categories: life death, death, life, life, death,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things