Best Suicide Poems
Below are the all-time best Suicide poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of suicide poems written by PoetrySoup members
Starry Starry NightWhen Wishes were made on a shooting star
The Heavens looked down and smiled
With sprinkles of stardust on a whisper of moonbeams
They created for us a...
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Categories:
suicide, anti bullying, art, beauty,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
I See You Says the MoonThey'll have you believe she was lost to the sea,
But the moon would beg to differ.
She was always lost,
Always looking for which way to go.
Or...
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Categories:
moon, sea, suicide,
Form:
Free verse
Her Masterpiece Is Her StoryHer paintbrush is a razor,
Her canvas, her wrists,
"I deserve the pain."
She shrugs and insists.
One day the brush will push down,
And it will cut so deep,
That...
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Categories:
suicide, abuse, addiction, anger, body,
Form:
Rhyme
Unsure the ShoreGrim fog, I praise the shelter of your drear,
the sundown ghost morose not grandiose,
I walk alone - but, no -- with my despair;
a bittern bids...
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Categories:
suicide, 8th grade, beach, bereavement,
Form:
Sonnet
Dry MascaraDRY MASCARA
Nobody sees through the shadow and the color of my eyes
The times I've cried are the only time you notice the trace down my...
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Categories:
suicide, cry, deep, depression, grief,
Form:
Alliteration
Bloody WristsI'm sitting on the floor
I'm crying so much more
trying to erase this pain
trying to forget your face
sitting here with the blade in my hand
running so...
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Categories:
suicide, abuse, boyfriend, bullying, depression,
Form:
I do not know?
I Slipped On a Tear DropI s l i p p e d on a teardrop and landed in her arms. She never knew how much I needed...
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Categories:
death, sister, suicide,
Form:
Haibun
Fearful and PerplexedFading sun elaborates
Tuscan yellow tinges
As vibrancy floats
Lavender on periwinkle
Embossing clouds
In shades of amethyst
Granting scenic vision
Atop the red bridge
Suspended in perpetuity
From vermilion towers
In resplendent posture
Sounding...
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Categories:
nature, suicide, sunset,
Form:
Free verse
Even the Angels WeptThe day you died you took me with you,
The way you lied shook me black and blue.
The sorrow you felt, I sure felt it too,
The...
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Categories:
angel, cry, depression, suicide,
Form:
Couplet
There Lies ArtThe easel beholds a half finishing painting
The paints beside have all hardened
Pain reflected in the partial emptiness
Staring back at that gathered crowd
The sun melts on...
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Categories:
suicide, art, death, drink, lonely,
Form:
Free verse
Desert DreamingA violent scene lay before me
Huddled in death, there’s Ella, Mary-belle, everywhere I could see
Swollen tongues, sunken eyes, frail bodies strewn in the hot powdery...
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Categories:
anxiety, nature, suicide,
Form:
Free verse
One Step Away From EternityAlas, I stand atop this mountain crest,
and gaze upon the valley down below;
the graveyard where your body lays at rest,
sits in the center shadowed by...
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Categories:
suicide, death, lost love, sad
Form:
Sonnet
Cutting My LossesAtmospheric grayscale mirrors my mood
where rainbow pastels are loath to intrude,
monochrome perverse looms ‘cross universe -
black powder train, mind is gun barrel gray
cold dispassionate muzzle...
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Categories:
suicide, anxiety, dark, depression, emotions,
Form:
Rhyme
Unmedicatedsymptom spectrum script
...
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Categories:
suicide, fear, mental illness, science,
Form:
Senryu
The Highway of RegretThe storms are raging on the rollin' sea, and on the highway of regret
Yes, I played around, was unfaithful to you, I'd change it all...
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Categories:
suicide, death, depression, drink, lost
Form:
Rhyme
Read This PleaseThey hate you because your you
They make up lies and call it true
They're fake behind your back
Hoping someday that you'll crack.
They hate you because your...
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Categories:
suicide, betrayal, care, career, change,
Form:
Bio
Forgotten By TomorrowShe stands at the edge of the precipice,
looking down towards her future.
The last tears that she will ever cry,
falling from her eyes,
then falling into...
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Categories:
suicide, blue, cry, dark, deep,
Form:
Free verse
White DevilWhite Devil
Call it what you want!
I call it, his favorite season hunt...
Two hoofs imprinted near the riverfront.
Echoes calling my soul with a loud, ferocious grunt.
I...
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Categories:
suicide, absence, beauty, depression, lost,
Form:
Rhyme
The CutterShe went to sleep
closing her eyes
beginning to dream
of broken butterflies
tearing her lovely monarch wings
on faithless love that angels sings...
She finds shiny metal in kitchen sink
in...
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Categories:
confusion, depression, suicide, ,
Form:
Free verse
Valentines DeathRed roses true
Skies so blue
Lovers doing what lovers do
Chocolates and confessions
of eternal love
Building up hopes and dreams
I, behind the counter
At the ripe old age of...
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Categories:
kiss, memory, poets, suicide,
Form:
Verse
When Madness Rides On MoonlightDays pass into the weak, loveless nights. The moon blinks.
The stars swirl beneath Van Gogh’s brush, as he links.
Comet light passes twisting cypresses, a schizophrenic’s...
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Categories:
anxiety, art, depression, suicide,
Form:
Sestina
Only HumanThis won't be a pretty picture, but I'm going to use this paper to put my art on
I'm not heartless, let me show you where...
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Categories:
suicide, dark, deep, depression, identity,
Form:
Free verse
One Last Deep SighIn the morning storm
he hums like a bird,
but words do not form -
for he can't be heard.
Catatonic eyes,
reflect hypnotised.
As he holds back cries
he feels paralysed.
Anguish...
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Categories:
depression, perspective, suicide,
Form:
Rhyme
Maid of the MystMaid of the Myst
I lie in repose
Under the falls
In a tranquil pool
Of turquoise blue
He left me for another
This I could not suffer
My pain already drowning...
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Categories:
suicide, baby, beautiful, daughter, death,
Form:
Free verse
Trail of TearsGod knows at times it don’t all come up Roses
And most days, these days life don’t work at all
Each road I choose keeps leading me...
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Categories:
suicide, bullying, depression, humanity, poverty,
Form:
Rhyme