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Best Life Death Poems


Premium Member Gentle Harbinger
Musing on this life of mine
Alone I wonder if it's time?
Robin sings in my heart
Fluttering wings like cupid's dart.

Have been hurt, no doubt caused pain
Hearing robin's song again
Before I journey who knows where?
Know angelic wings will take me there.

The time has come and gone again
I'm...

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Categories: life death, angel, beauty, bird, blessing,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The River of Life - POTD
As every drop hath magic of its own,
And yet within a river finds its whole,
So are our lives of merit all alone,
And yet a facet in a greater soul.
Or as a shard of light that shines in spring,
Within the fabric of the dazzling day;
We are...

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Categories: life death, allusion, death, life, river,
Form: Sonnet
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 heaven and words spoken from the heart brought perspective to what time remained. Fear and regret knowing this may be...

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

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member The Bell Tower That Leaned In
I. The Pastor’s Hand

At dawn’s brittle cusp—
  he climbs, each step
    a nail in time’s coffin
  breath ragged
    a Psalm torn mid-hymn.

The rope tastes of incense and myrrh—
  Liberty’s fracture
    braided through its...

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Categories: life death, allegory, bereavement, devotion, imagery,
Form: Dramatic Verse
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 death
Our breath of life was heaven sent

But this is our morbid destiny
For Eve picked the apple from the tree

And plunged...

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Categories: life death, death, life, life, death,
Form: Couplet
A Letter To My Dead Daughter
My Love,

The sky reminded me of you today.
The sun set in lilac with a teasing tinge of pink—
just the way you used to love it.

On other days, the sky is yellow and murky,
reeking of sulphur and carbon;
I feel suffocated in grandma’s old penthouse
(I sold off...

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Categories: life death, beautiful, bereavement, death, extended
Form: Free verse



Premium Member To Whom Does This Come
What’s left behind is the fragrance of the lilac 
Crushed between forlorn fingers
Petals held in contorted hands 
Once lust rendered dust the terrain shall cover
Fierceness is abandoned forgiveness is given
To whom does this come, whom shall it deem
As father time allots and consumes
Pro tem I...

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Categories: life death, analogy, deep, i am,
Form: Haibun
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 glass, and fog, 
into a dismal January, she hopes to catch a glimpse of the paper boy.
He travels through rain,...

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Categories: life death, dark, death, farewell, loss,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Bookends of Eternal Dark
Where were you so long ago?
All those eons before a tot.
In some distant god’s château? 
No. Not there. You were not.

On a shelf of surplus stock,
A soul dressed up in heavenly frock.
Perhaps a spirit not yet wrought,
No. Not there. You were not.

Then began your book...

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Categories: life death, atheist, death, friendship, life,
Form: Rhyme
Malicious Opacity
“LIKE A MADMAN THINKS HE'S GOD, WE THINK WE'RE MORTAL”. Delaland, Speech on Shadows

Transparency is the key to the social harmony. Transparent people pass through each other like light through water. No one blocks out the sunshine, no one bars the way, no one stands...

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Categories: life death, death, life, poets,
Form: Haibun
Beware of the Ides of the Men On Black
"Beware Of the Ides of the men on black"
The judges and jurors of our fates, blink.
Every time we will, they will reform it
They even gave them new uniforms
But they preferred the black 'It suits them mos'
And more guns,lesser humanity.

The Leaders of tomorrow are forbidden from...

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Categories: life death, absence, abuse, africa, allusion,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Violin and Guitar
countless years of toil took toll on his health,
                      cruel poverty ravaged his handsome looks,
         ...

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Categories: life death, loneliness, music,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Just Beyond the Gate
Just Beyond The Gate 
David J Walker

There is a road
	there is a cliff
there is certain rendezvous
just beyond where

There is life 
	There is death 
There is light lit 
By excised breath 

There is sleep 
	Lying in wait 
Just beyond a
Final dawn and unknow fate where

There is...

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Categories: life death, allegory, life,
Form: Rhyme
The Lights
Oh, how cold you are, heavenly lights! But there are the earthly lights that promise weary travelers a rest. Interrupting for a moment the eternal movement from dark to light, we stretch out cold fingers to a fire and look up. The Universe gets cold,...

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Categories: life death, dark, death, life, light,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Death and Life - Gustav Klimt - 1286
Life and Death in two separated clusters, Klimt draws conflicts.
The serenity of his cycle of life is bright in pure color, he depicts.
A modern dance of death, yet he offers pause in what is inevitably set.
Death savoring in anticipation, musing with the decision “Not yet”.

Idly,...

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Categories: life death, dance, death, life,
Form: Ekphrasis

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry