A billion Dollar SoulA billion dollars can buy a bushel of silence and two for death
hectares of prime farmland or champagned private jets
It can buy a turd in stilettos and a pyrite hearted mistress.
A billion bucks can buy you a secondhand spaceship
or an endless good run of wall street luck
it can buy a bloated lip- plastic...
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Categories:
death, money,
Form: Free verse
A Blackbird Flies Before the MoonA blackbird flies before the moon,
A life shall pass away;
A death, a bird,
Together stirred,
Fused in a lunar ray;
The wings of a fate falling soon.
...
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Categories:
allegory, bird, death, fate,
Form: Rhyme
Harbinger RowI took a long drive down to Harbinger Row
Where the grass is all dead and the flowers won't grow
Where the people and their pets are now long gone
And an icy cold wind whispers till the dawn
On certain nights you can hear the spirits cry
Under a pale-blue moon or a blood-red sky
They suffer and anguish...
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Categories:
death,
Form: Rhyme
We Pass out Every NightDiving deep in the pond of the sub-consciousness
I die every night, you die every night too
This is our way of rejuvenating the body
This may sound crazy, eerily or even spooky,
However, this is absolutely or definitely true
Our body makes a special trip to correct the mess
Which takes place from a certain time to the other
We die...
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Categories:
blessing, creation, day, death,
Form: Rhyme
The executionThe women fell upon the bodies of the dead,
clearing blindfolds for one last look upon their face.
Shot, against a carmine wall, no matter how they pled.
So now they mourn them through a veil of blackened lace.
A mother presses lips upon a virgin son;
a bride, in bloodstained white, whispers; she is to be;
a sister screams, at...
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Categories:
death,
Form: Rhyme
One LoanI don’t have to remind you. Yesterday is behind you. Temporary is the time these bodies will hold the spirit inside you. Whether you are a millionaire or broke and in debt. Life has a beginning middle and end. It’s those three points that we try to make our friend. Since our timer starts when...
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Categories:
death, earth, god, time,
Form: Rhyme
In The BeginningIn the beginning two lovers were born
In the campus parking lot behind the student union
They clung together for 60 years
Until one day my wounded bird knew
Her broken hip would not allow her to fly again
I was too old and weak to pick her up off the floor
When she fell...she said she wanted to go to...
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Categories:
death, farewell, first love,
Form: Narrative
Sometimes in SrebrenicaIt might be a city of paradise in Bosnia,
Its memories are as fragile as a vase
The horrors and tears stained on the canvas of time
And it's something that no one forgets.
With a child snatched from his mother,
Begging her to pray for his soul
As fear ascends like a dark cloud
Standing in line and awaitng the...
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Categories:
death, history, war,
Form: Free verse
UninvitedUninvited death slowly entered during her illness
Engulfing her old, frail body
Slowly and higher came the stillness
Which at any time can affect anybody
Night's embrace grows colder with each breath,
While the clouds drift on a somber quest,
Even time pauses at the doorstep of death,
Holding her moments in an eternal rest.
I knew I had died when the...
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Categories:
age, death,
Form: Rhyme
LOVE LIVES ON
When I lose someone I love…someone who was close to me
I try my best to follow the Native Nations’ wisdom and philosophy…
To stay with them a while
in those sweet places I call memories
To visit their smile often
To let their light warm and fill my heart
And always remember
Their love lives on through me
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Categories:
death, love,
Form: Rhyme
Before my mom gave me birth
I’ve known my mother
since before I had a shape,
when my soul — a seed of silent stars,
was still searching for its furrow.
I was an imperceptible vibration,
a faint flicker in the chasm
between being and not-being,
and she — the only soil
where I could take root.
She never promised
time would be gentle,
but
she gave me her...
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Categories:
absence, child, death, family,
Form: Free verse
The Click CliqueAll the birds in the skies stopped singing
All the clocks on the walls stopped ticking
All the bells in the halls started ringing
Once the gun in his hand started clicking...
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Categories:
death, violence,
Form: Rhyme
forever Jane Doeskull in the forest
her body yet to be found
accident or what
no one comes forward
lone skull left all by itself
detectives come out
dna testing
jane doe remains a jane doe
body still hidden...
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Categories:
death,
Form: Senryu
Heaven's Favor or Hell's FireHell’s fire does not now exist
for those who die apart from Christ.
The wicked dead are food for worms
As are the bodies of dead saints.
But death for all is not the end.
The God who made heaven and earth
is God of life and not of death,
and it’s his will that men should live.
When sin brought death, He...
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Categories:
christian, death, encouraging, god,
Form: Free verse
We Die A LittleWe die a little bit
Each day and each night
As we live every minute
Gleeful or glum under the light.
We die in our sleep
And rise again if we’re lucky
And blessed. This is deep
Few people are truly canny or savvy.
Believe not in all the glitters
When it’s time to go or to depart
Gravity behaves like deadly creatures.
We die every...
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Categories:
day, death, dream, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Death Poems
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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,
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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