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Categories:
death, allegory, birth, change, character,
Form: Other
Death is not our story's end
Death is not our story's end
Far from the garden where we tend
Flowers of love to blossom and send
Fragrance on the winds aloft,
Drifting into...
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Categories:
death,
Form: Rhyme
Centzon Totochtin, 02-05-2013…
Ridono.
Entrano.
Rodono.
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Ridono.
Entrano.
Rodono.
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Categories:
childhood, death, love, teenage,
Form: Free verse
Dirge of the Last LapI
The loud, cruel laughter of dirge
besieges us so greatly in the face of
wanton humiliation.
It comes mightily, crashing our aged
city walls, unearthing the foundations of
churches,
tolling bells in pulsated grief . . .
Dirge comes with thunder,
like the trumpets and horns of
treachery common with lachrymose compositions;
when rain suddenly comes,
we fret visibly.
The events of dirge are colourless,
edgy and heartless...
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Categories:
dark, death, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
DEATHLife comes from the living ones
But death?
Where does death come from?
Does it come from outside?
Or it comes from within?
Does it start when we are born?
Or walk with us throughout life?
When we start crawling
When we start schooling
When we fall in love
When we get married or
When we are on the edge of life
And nothing makes sense
Not...
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Categories:
death,
Form: Free verse
MotherI wrote this for my mom since it's the anniversary of her passing today
Today marks the day, my heart's heavy stone,
A decade has gone by, yet grief fills my heart even more so at home
Mom, I'm missing you more than words could ever say,
Every milestone, every memory, every second of everyday.
I wish you could've...
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Categories:
anniversary, death, grief,
Form: Free verse
Pennies from HeavenLay me down in open skies
Put the pennies on my eyes
Wrapped in my suit and tie of gray
Say a couple words of grace
Toss the earth upon my face
And let's call it another day
Endless time is all I've got
As I decompose and rot
It's a horrid situation
As I leave you all behind
The one thing that...
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Categories:
death, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
DECEASED FRIEND ONE VOICEAsleep
Awakened by a voice
The Deceased one appeared as an image
The voice spoke of encouragement
Felt a sudden excitement
Visualizing and wonder if what was happening all true
Thinking I was dreaming and my mind playing tricks
It was a friend I truly missed
Yet I listened to every spoken word the deceased one was saying
Endure and courage being assuring
The...
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Categories:
death, appreciation, best friend, character,
Form: Free verse
A Welcoming StillnessWe all search
for prescience
the future
on hold
As each
dying moment
forever
unfolds
We all crave
the silence
preparing
for death
Its welcoming
stillness
a last
— final breath
(The New Room: July, 2025)
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Categories:
death, silence,
Form: Rhyme
Plant Taxonomy at the Cemeteryacross the festival of grasses
I ran through the view of various booth and attraction
run by locals and those aged faction
along those sneaky foreigners with imprinted aliases
rolling my bike seemed to bother
with their necks closing in
leaning towards my upward chin
read as arrogance, instead as an evader
invader of their land
shattering their drinking glass
yet still manage to outclass...
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Categories:
death, earth, grief,
Form: Quatrain
Categories:
childhood, death, love, teenage,
Form: Free verse
Death Row ManAs morose as it may sound
I know I’m really just another
Death row man.
No,
I’m not locked away
For a crime I have done.
I’m free,
But that doesn’t mean
I’m still not on that row.
And that also doesn’t mean
There isn’t some crime I could have done
That would have me lock away and unfree.
I’m sure there are stacks of...
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Categories:
death, life, perspective,
Form: Narrative
There Was NobodyThere was nobody who could come and weep at his graveside.
So we invited the misty mountain, the gusting moorland
And meandering little river where he had sat down and fished;
But, they were all previously engaged. still, we went anyway.
Someone had to lower the coffin...and songs refuse to sing
If there is nobody to listen....
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Categories:
death, imagery, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
A Whisper Into the Kitchen FloorHe tastes the salt before he knows he's shed a tear
He'd always been a staggering man
Since his Army days known by most simply as Big Roy
Now he's a staggered man
This night, curved and hunched
Bags so heavy and dark under his eyes
They'd just as well be rotten figs about to fall
And splat and stain the ground...
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Categories:
bereavement, death, grief, lost
Form: Free verse
Carnival Nights
There was a chill in the air that night, as the taste of spun cotton candy and stale popcorn floated through the breeze. Lifeless clouds hung in the sky, moving swiftly past an ever-broken moon. Remnants of rain clung to weeping blades of grass, as a shattered heart cracked under a ribcage in disbelief. The...
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Categories:
dark, death, gothic, imagery,
Form: Prose
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.
Definition | What is Death in Poetry?
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