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Poems About Death | Poems on the Loss of loved Ones

Missing
I'm lost Without your hand To hold The walk To school of life Less bold You vanished In a Puff. So quickly My heart So sad My tummy sickly No stop No hug The speeding car Whisked you Away No au revoir The color In my life Now blue My hand So cold. I'm missing you CV 1.7.25...

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Categories: death, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Anatomy of a Breakdown
too many choices whispered voices nagging doubts indecision sprouts anxiety flips paralysis grips nervous breakdown ...

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Categories: anxiety, death, mental illness,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Counsel of sages
birth-death rotate desires bait soul just wait it out...

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Categories: birth, death, desire, spiritual,
Form: Than-Bauk
the souless killer dies
he didn’t blink when the light caught his face— just stared like a dog too long in the rain. no prayers, no cries, no family on the concrete bench. he killed for sport, like swatting flies— and still the world made room for him. the guards were tired, the chaplain bored. death smelled like disinfectant and steel. he coughed once. then again. then silence. nobody wept— not even the devil. ...

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Categories: death, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Gate of Undefined Infinity
“Fear of death is fear of surrender to Infinity.” ~ Adi Da Samraj In my fevered state, I sought the godforsaken sounds of the gossamer strings of the harp. It was hours of grave thoughts before I would awaken to the ghostly groaning of my mind’s steep scarp. Grief-stricken, I lie staring through closed eyes listening to the beat of my heart...

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Categories: dark, death, dream, fear,
Form: Rhyme



L’Ultima Eresia
… La Mezzanotte. "Io non sono un poeta…". Ricordo. "Questa non è poesia…". … "Scempi…". I Rumori. "Deliri…". Melodie. "Io non sono un poeta…". … "Questa non è poesia…". Il Nero. "Scempi…". Inchiostro. "Deliri…". … "Io non sono un poeta…". La Maschera. "Questa non è poesia…". Scrive. "Scempi…". … "Deliri…". … ...

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Categories: childhood, death, love, violence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Eternograf 2
Perhaps my truth does not lie in shapes or outlines, but in the empty spaces between them, in the unbearable distance between myself and my reflection, between all that I am now and what I might understand if I had the courage to gaze into the abyss without blinking. When I gaze into the abyss, I discover only my own reflection, not as I am, but as I...

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Categories: art, birth, blessing, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member It Never Stops
There’s nothing at all that I’m needing and little that I’m wanting, no tasks I find too daunting~~ but the world is bleeding. The hungry near and far need feeding; the homeless...

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Categories: death, god, life, loss,
Form: Rhyme
Without Regrets What Have I Left
The end of days is a term Dark enough To make men squirm And real enough In a way To make one consider His final day… Without regrets…who’s to say And doing so I must look back On what I wrought And what I wrecked What I built And what I broke What I gave And what I took Then the book that tallies sums Finds me wanting And then some For...

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Categories: death, humanity, life, philosophy,
Form: Narrative
The Genocide
I lay in the dust turned to mud by the blood of innocents, my name i heard whispered on the sighing breeze of night flahes of somrthing bright illuminated a ruined city. broken buildings like jagged teeth seemed to laugh, screams like banshees filled the sky dropping death down upon the heads of those already dead. What hate must be brewing...

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Categories: death, anger, angst, anxiety, arabic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Gate to our Eternity
She returns here every May sixteenth, the day she was to marry. I saw her GHOSTLY visage there at the GATES of the cemetery. I went, as I've done everyday, to lay flowers upon her GRAVE. I, the GRIEF-STRICKEN groom just striving to be brave. Just as the sun set and darkness fell I heard a ghastly GROANING. I ran to...

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Categories: death, fantasy, grave, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
Storie Di Gatti E Topi
… I gatti dimagriscono finché il topo squittisce. … ...

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Categories: childhood, death, love, teenage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Wicket Keeper
**The Wicket-Keeper** Today, I learned that a lover I once cherished has passed away. Just yesterday, he was alive, and I never imagined I would feel this way about him. It’s strange how I rarely think about the rain unless it floods my drains, my driveway, or my beloved rose garden, or dampens my happy mood....

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Categories: death, allegory, angst, break up,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Just Buried
Farewell! Farewell! It’s time for my closing verse. How long the years that bless and unkindly curse, till in a black wagon our sorry ars-e draggin’ we get to flat ride in a hearse Goodbye! Goodbye! Father, we buried you today in a wicker casket wherein bones of Mother lay. Laid to...

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Categories: death, father, goodbye,
Form: Rhyme
Hitler's Sins
Palestine Sins ... Israel is indeed reincarnated good Goodocide actions ...

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Categories: abuse, bullying, death, hate,
Form: Haiku

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