Death Blackbird Poems
These Death Blackbird poems are examples of Blackbird poems about Death. These are the best examples of Blackbird Death poems written by international poets.
Obsequies for a Queen(Elizabeth II 1926-2022)
Are we - crow, blackbird, sparrow -
aware of what's occurring?
We cannot tell, they assume,
but gape and gaze from up here.
This is a land...
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Categories:
blackbird, city, color, death, grave,
Blackbird Has SpokenSweet \rains new fall, sunlit from Heaven like the first dewfall on the first grass.
Praise for the sweetness of the wet garden sprung in completeness...
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blackbird, poetry,
Eliots FriendYou’ve got a lark on the brain
I’ve got a ghost in mine
Shape of the shadows of things to come
Half started is only half begun
In the...
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blackbird, death,
Blackbird Is Dead IiBlackbird, blackbird, where have you gone?
Here the limbs you lately danced upon,
In sunset orange, in sunset red,
Now the grapevine says, "Blackbird is dead."
Disbelieving owl cries,...
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blackbird, bird, death, grief, nature,
Blackbird Is DeadBlackbird is dead.
Yes. That is what I said.
The woods are still. The sun is red.
Cherries near his little head.
Dark is coming. Nanette...
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blackbird, bird, cry, goodbye, nature,
This Blackbird SongThe sound of a clear Blackbird call
Echoed through the trees and over the fields making me stop and fall
Upon my knees his song followed...
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blackbird, beautiful, beauty, bird, death,
BlackbirdMy father was a musician, with a beautiful tenor voice. As we seven siblings witnessed his coffin being lowered into that cold earth, a blackbird...
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Categories:
blackbird, cheer up, children, death,
BlackbirdTrapped like a bird in this filthy cage
Where I am starved of compassion and understanding
Left to survive on meager crumbs
Of affection and...
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Categories:
blackbird, abuse, angst, bird, freedom,
The BlackbirdThe blackbird’s footprints seemed to trace
The footpath to the resting place
Through the bright new layer of snow
They led the way, showed where to go.
They laid...
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blackbird, death, loss,
The BlackbirdThe Blackbird
Looms over my grave
At my funeral
Nobody came
Not a soken word
For this slave
Neither a hero
Or unbrave
A life with nothing to show
His last words wen't unheard
The...
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blackbird, death, life, sad,