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Dead Person Poems - Poems about Dead Person

Atopos

...the space
was invaded by his disappearance,
everything he touched felt so quiet, and alive,
more alive than i was,

(i sat on the bed, curled, like a dog,
with the nozzle on its paws,
eyes in ...
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Categories: dead person, for him, i miss
Form: Free verse

'On a Betrothed Girl' by Erinna translation

...These are modern English translations of epigrams and poems by the ancient Greek poet Erinna...

On a Betrothed Girl
by Erinna
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

I sing of Ba...
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Categories: dead person, art, death, girl, girlfriend,
Form: Free verse



Premium Memberpretend I am dead

...The social committee came to me in the form of Mrs. Breast Pump.
Mrs. BP has been taking advantage of many of us for months now.
She is supposed to have two twenty-to-thirty minute pumping breaks.
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Categories: dead person, work,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberEternal friendship

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Eternal friendship
(A walk in a cemetery)


Realm of the dead, cemetery, everyone here is the same, one.
I look at the dates, years, and names on the tablets of stones
This is the place where...
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Categories: dead person, death, depression, emotions,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe dead Titanic love

...The dead Titanic love



Once upon a time, a ship sank in the sea, there were lives and loves on it
That was a long time ago, maybe I was alive then
But I lost my life on the land
Now
It will...
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Categories: dead person, i miss you, life,
Form: Free verse



Live Now

...Don’t death threat me,
I’m already a gonner,
I am passed myself,
I left years ago,
I got no drama now.

Death has wormed itself
into your words.
Tell me,
just who is alive
in that brain of ...
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Categories: dead person, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Thoughts of a Young Worn Torn Girl

...Standing in front of charred burning houses all alone
My mind is blank
Totally numb
In a state of shock

I wonder what mistakes did I do to deserve this?

One leader wants to increase his terr...
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Categories: dead person, 10th grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThey'Re Not Truly Here-

...~There ain't no dead person here, be quiet,  look up, be still. Look yonder there they are with God~


2/6/22
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2022<...
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Categories: dead person, analogy, bereavement, death, destiny,
Form: Epitaph

Selfish Cry At Death

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"Grief exist in thoughts. 
With a shift in thoughts they end"
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When someone close dies we cry
How will I live without that person
Thinking so our tears never dry
W...
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Categories: dead person, death,
Form: Pantoum

I Dreamt I Walked This Earth

...I dreamt I walked this earth
Walked this earth as a ghost
Not as a dead person
But as a ghost
Just observing

I dreamt I walked this earth
Not able to right wrongs
Not able to change
Change ...
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Categories: dead person, crush, dream, future, me,
Form: Free verse

Hiding In Plain Sight

...Aphorisms or EPIGRAMS on God and Human FREEDOM (?)
1. God is hiding in plain sight: God is the background, the very canvas, without which the foreground, the ART, cannot be! 

The renowned ...
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Categories: dead person, bible, birth, body, creation,
Form: Epigram

Premium MemberRemember To Keep On Loving and Never Die

...Keeploving "This is "One Word" .Do you as a poet "Hear it as "Oneword"? I hear it ,and now you as a poet can hear it too?We need ,and can love again,and again,and again,love is not a sin! LOVE IS ...
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Categories: dead person, 12th grade, 4th grade,
Form: Ballad

Premium MemberWhen At Her Sepulchre I Heard Her Ask

...When At Her Sepulchre I Heard Her Ask

From her sepulchre she sent her calls
or was it from my darkest midnight walls.
Yet in those calls, mixed was love and hate
and many mysteries of angry Fat...
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Categories: dead person, art, dark, death, deep,
Form: Sonnet

Asian Poverty

...Someone asked Buddha "Are you god or human?"
 Buddha replied , "I dont know, but while the world was sleeping I woke up"
 I tried to wake up too, into the reality
 From the very matrix i was into ...
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Categories: dead person, betrayal, dark, innocence,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberYour Long Angular Feet

...Your Long Angular Feet

You don’t know me, but
I been riding here in this trundling lounge car
for two hours now, watching 
you and your long angular feet,
while rumbling over these burdened tr...
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Categories: dead person, travel,
Form: Free verse

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