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Best On Your Tod Poems

Below are the all-time best On Your Tod poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of on your tod poems written by PoetrySoup members


Tod Und Frau 1910 (Death and the Woman)
As death creeps out of the darkness,
  A mother becomes the rope in a (Tug of war.)
A child reaches to help its’ mother in...

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© Abe Lopez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: on your tod, art, death, lifemother, child,
Form: Ekphrasis



Premium Member Heinrich Heine Revisited
I can clearly sense your utter despair of Der Matratzengruft*
As you valiantly carried on your poetic works to the very end.
This did not change your...

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Categories: on your tod, history, international, philosophy, poems,
Form: Narrative
The Quick Brown Fox
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
The hound takes no notice and sleeps like a log

The quick dog jumps over the lazy brown...

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© Ivo Cos  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: on your tod, animal, dog, farm, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Darr Lagta He
Mujhe rehne do sapno me 
Ki jeevan jeene se darr lagta he
Mujhe rehne do sannaton me
Ayurbal ke shor se darr lagta he 

Bahut saare ...

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Categories: on your tod, care, fear, hindi, life,
Form: Light Verse
The Death of My Cousin's Wife, April 17th 2011
Zum Tod der Frau meines Cousins am 17. April 2011 / The Death of my Cousin's wife, April
17th 2011/ La muerte de la mujer de...

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Categories: on your tod, death
Form: Senryu



Macchu Picchu (German/English/Spanish)
Du Einsame, 
in den Bergen getrotzt,
versteckt in den Wolken
getragen vom Geist des Inka,
hochgepriesen,
wie von Geisterhand
überragst du das 
zerklüftete Tal des Urubamba.
Stein auf Stein,
gebaut mit großem...

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Categories: on your tod, history
Form: Prose Poetry
Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel (Sentanka)
He had do fight all odds
A man of unbreakable idealism
Alone with his ideas

A mysterious death at high sea
The truth will never be known
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Gegen alle Widerstände
Ein...

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Categories: on your tod, historydeath, autumn, body, death,
Form: Tanka
Woman Viking Warrior
See! Air is spotless. I give you its blood!
I impose Poetry´s Knife where you post
You who slept to kiss all and any Tod
A Prince for...

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© Lis Lovén  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: on your tod, adventure, song-
Form: Sonnet
Philipp Reis (Deutsch/ English/ Español (Sentanka)
Philipp Reis (Deutsch/ English/ Español   (Sentanka)

Übertragung von Sprache
Mit den einfachsten Mitteln
Über große Entfernung 

Versagt blieb ihm der Erfolg
Viel zu früh kam sein Tod


Transmission...

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Categories: on your tod, people
Form: Tanka
Division
If you want to share your realities, 
With someone you like and so love, 
But have no reason, none for sharing,
Then the outcome will be...

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Categories: on your tod, character, giving, love, psychological,
Form: Blank verse
Dies Leben Bringt Mich Um - This Life Will Kill Me
This is a song I wrote in German. I've given my translation in English. If you are a german speaker, please let me know about...

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Categories: on your tod, depression, language, love hurts,
Form: Lyric
Archbishop Justin Timberlake
I don't know about Archbishop Justin Timberlake, 
He’s jazzing up the church, 
Making Jesus controversial, 
Leaving life in the lurch. 

It’s fine to have excitement,...

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Categories: on your tod, faith, humor, humorous, religion,
Form: Rhyme
A Day of My Life
At morning it starts with a day,
When everyone says yeah!

The milkman comes at the door and knocks,
And then the maid shocks.

I drink milk but before...

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Categories: on your tod, day,
Form: Couplet
The Numbers Game
In the end, it was the numbers that did us in.?
They lined us up into military rows and assigned us all numbers?
One after one after...

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Categories: on your tod, anger, angst, anxiety, crazy,
Form: Didactic
Lethal and Dope Lyrics
De Tod Motet//
Listen to my raw//
Observe my new law//
Innocent quench hunger waves//
With my black rhymes//
We are reaching the last days they say//
Be with me in...

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Categories: on your tod, anger,
Form: Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs