Reading and writing poems about the death of a loved one are a beautiful way to deal with the emotions and trauma associated with mortality. These beautiful and inspirations poems about death help us see how others are enduring the loss of a parent, other family members, a friend, or loved one. Everyone’s experiences are different, and we cannot compare feelings, but coping with grief and death is something all must go through, and we can learn from the sadness and reactions of others expressed in poetry.
GoodbyeStaring defiant
into the blind eye of fate
the winds of circumstance
early not late
Staring back angry
its other eye blinked
as clouds blew misfortune
too close to the brink
I reached for my inkwell
I dipped in my pen
my final last script
to...
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Categories:
death,
Form: Rhyme
Big MoneyStage one is so far gone
they say, "Don't look back."
Stage two dragging me along,
those nine pounds I lost this week
won't be coming back.
Now where in the heck did I put them?
Just let me say this...
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Categories:
death, life,
Form: Free verse
One Foot in the Grave
I almost died the other day
but fate said to wait for another day
I was walking along & the world looked surreal
Not imagining that it was really real.
I felt like there was...
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Categories:
care, death, fate, grave,
Form: Free verse
Of Thoughts and ForestsMy mind is a forest
Deep and everlasting
A sea of green
Hiding the floors below
Every passing moment
A leaf emerges
And with it a new world
All in a thought
A clock strike, the next
With each passing...
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Categories:
death, growth, metaphor, nature,
Form: Free verse
A thought from our makerThere lay no death down below,
Endless oblivion, the song of the bone,
A path towards nowhere, where stories unfold,
The visions of the dead, a memory untold.
Ancient voices, sobbing at the door,
He who resisted, but could not...
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Categories:
death, dream, freedom, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
A Tale of Two NationsA Tale of Two Nations
Under one flag
with many stars
and even more shame
two nations to chose
Guns or Roses
One opposed to death of children
and free choice for all the women
the other revels in blood and guns
imposing their...
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Categories:
child abuse, death, presidents
Form: Free verse
The Siege Of Mariupol Steelworks
Down in the south east of Ukraine they call the Donbas region
Is where the Russians were kept at bay by the Azoz battalion
For three long months in Mariupol, they put up one hell of a...
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Categories:
courage, death, soldier, war,
Form: Rhyme
dedication poem 52there was a lady about 52
she looked so sad and blue
when i pass each day she would wave
a wave of love back was what i gave
i noticed that she would stare into space
perhaps she found...
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Categories:
death of a friend,
Form: Rhyme
Not the Better Nature of our AngelsBULLETS
mercilessly fly...
BOMBS
pitilessly fall...
MISSILES
ruthlessly soar...
shattering their helpless "targets"
a hateful
bloody blur of
perpetual pointless
sadistic slaughter
our beautiful blue globe
haplessly scarred
hopelessly screaming
populated by psychopathic
terminators
The Better Nature of our Angels?
WTF is
Dr. Pinker
smoking??
...
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Categories:
dark, death, society, war,
Form: Free verse
Those who drink bound to sinkI met a man in pink,
Who chose to freely think
That those who often drink
Are bound to sadly sink:
“No braving it to a brink;
With no sure shores a link!”
But while just this saying
Made with...
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Categories:
death, drink, food, health,
Form: Rhyme
Grey CrossesRows upon rows of grey crosses
Engraved with trembling hands
Streams and rivers of sorrowful tears
Shed for the longed for lands
There lies in the hedged in meadows
A spirit of calm and peace
For there rest the bodies of...
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Categories:
courage, death, grave, patriotic,
Form: Quatrain
WandererHopeless wonderer wandering alone
Hoping to find some peace
Needing to melt a heart of stone
But breaking it piece by piece
til the dust falls through shaking hands
And the pain has no relief
Hopeless wanderer wondering why
Waiting...
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Categories:
death, depression, grief, heartbreak,
Form: Terza Rima
THE TEXAS SLAUGHTER
Hate, racism, and sightless ignorance
Joined their evil forces in Texas today
For to kill: children, grace, and innocence
Thus making humanity go astray!*
© Demetrios Trifiatis
26 May 2022
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* Salvador Ramos, an...
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Categories:
children, death, evil,
Form: Quatrain
What More Can We Do
Haunted by the death of dreams
and slaughtering of innocence
but too afraid to dig up the bones
and examine our own mistakes,
we bury our heads instead,
blindly following greedy leaders
who give nothing...
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Categories:
anger, children, death, sad,
Form: Free verse
The Arc of BeingOpen now your mindful murmured undertones,
Your whispered washing watery whisking words,
Your sensitive sensory sensual sentient moonstones,
Your rippling roving river rapid songbirds.
Open now your stargaze spectral drifting dreams,
Your view of the darkest soundless vacuum space,
Your...
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Categories:
birth, death, heart, science,
Form: Sonnet
Specific Types of Death Poems
Read wonderful death poetry on the following sub-topics:
anniversary, brother, cat, child, dog, elegy, eulogy, father, friend, funeral, goodbye, grandfather, grandmonther, grief, in loving memory, loss, lover, memorial, missing you, mother, moving on, pet, rip, sad, sister, suicide, sympathy,
and more.
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Poems Related to Death
afterlife, bereavement, darkness, death of a friend, decease, demise, departure, dying, eternal rest, extinction, fatality, grave, grim reaper, heaven, loss, lost love, mortality, paradise, parting, passing, passing over, repose, sleep, the end, tomb