A Night of 89A Night of 89
Footsteps at midnight
the knock no one dared answer.
Dogs howled in silence.
Charred Bodies on the road,
eyes still open to the sky.
The crows never ask.
Posters on the wall
by morning, the faces fade.
Smoke curls from tire pyres .
Mother lights a lamp.
Her son's shoes still by the door.
She dares not whisper.
Gunfire in the dusk,
then a scream...
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Categories:
anger, cry, death, fear,
Form: Haiku
It ain't no fun, When the rabbit got the gunNot its your turn my pretty
to prick your finger on the blade
taste the repercussions of what you have set to cause on my fate
now it will reflect back to you
in the form of time On every watch, every ticking clock
In every failed friendship, in every loss.
You shall forever remember my name
you shall forever remember this...
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Categories:
death, angst, betrayal, birth, blessing,
Form: Rhyme
Don't Look Up
the dark skies laden with swollen rain clouds
with sorrow's stain endows
haunted funereal shrouds
figures swinging from tree boughs
...
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Categories:
dark, death, sky, tree,
Form: Englyn
CEASEFIRE
Categories:
death, imagery, poetry, political,
Form: Lanterne
CHILDREN OF WARThe night came with horrors
Children of Palestine, those whose youth came to an end at bomb blast.
Names forgotten on a trigger of a gun,
WHOSE sons will never see the sun?
Children of Gaza who ran after drones thinking they are toys
Sounds of terror leaving limbs scattered like graffiti on burnt walls.
children of Yemen, whose smiles faced...
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Categories:
children, death, funeral,
Form: Ballad
Piloting My Own CorpseThe world is quiet here
Yet growing louder by the day
Renting paradise from vultures
Split amongst two flavors of instability
I clamored and dreamed for that golden armor
That title that would cement my name in history
To be a "hero" to someone I'd lose contact with forever
Scars fade, and eternity is short
I saw my dreams given flesh
No gaps left...
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Categories:
allegory, change, death, religion,
Form: Free verse
Where is the fullfilment'I see many seeking.' Life eternal, love everlasting' reading
Watching.' Desiring divine..Finding lifes ending observe it
Yet start new in many different life forms that hold no former awarness peculier to you.' So I leave my ponder.'
And realise to await in faith..' For true capture of life is
Beyond here.. Its in Gods dimension ( and comes neither...
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Categories:
death, allusion, appreciation, assonance, bible,
Form: Didactic
Thought of the dayrecognising we’re spirit not body-mind ~
deluded fears of death are then left behind...
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Categories:
death, fear,
Form: Couplet
When racism met suicideScars fade but trauma doesn't
She wished it was the the other way round
At least then she wouldn't be haunted by the memories
Maybe the cuts wouldn't hurt as much
Maybe she wouldn't have done it at all
Each tear was another cut
Each cut made her numb
She didn't want people to see her cry she thought Her...
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Categories:
death, bullying, prejudice, race, racism,
Form: Free verse
Find My Broken HeartYesterday,
I was writing poems about small things—
how small beings dwell,
how they endure,
the quiet life we don't notice.
A spider spinning a web in a corner.
A bird singing at dawn.
They teach us to slow down.
To enjoy the little things.
To survive softly.
But today—
I woke up to war.
I don’t know who to notice first.
The children in Gaza,
who are so...
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Categories:
children, conflict, death, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Last breathI close my eyes,
Be still my heart,
I’m not ready to be apart,
Beating deep,
A saddened heart,
Nobody said it would be this hard,
Pain runs deep,
Flowing in these veins of mine,
Forever wouldn’t have been enough time,
Tears flow,
One at a time,
This much hurt should be a crime,
Now I stand alone,
The sun brings a new dawn,
A new day...
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Categories:
death, deep, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Ceasefire
Categories:
death, peace,
Form: Lanterne
Tracing or erazing'The lines of life become etched on each face, if age advances..Until we depart this place.' There are struggles
And some joy.' Some ask for more' Some are happy with
Less.' Then there are the evil (lovers of hate and war ) all
In one place, the world we know.. I have witnessed enough
Lord I know the way...
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Categories:
appreciation, bible, death,
Form: Didactic
Journey On The Edge IIWhen I was 16 my face suddenly froze,
As I passed out in my friend's arms,
I was laying there, face turned rose.
I awakened, memoryless, then recall harms.
When I was 23 I was very far,
But I wasn't alone as I kept on twitching,
She saved me while my spirit was afar;
Soon I flew back to my body, waking.
When...
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Categories:
death, drug, health, journey,
Form: Quatrain
Journey On The Edge IWhen I was four, I hadn't thought life a bore,
As I was free to play, until one very day,
I learned someday we all go out that door,
One by one, "It was fun," I know I'll say.
When I was 6, I was reminded of this crucifix:
As I was trying to sleep, I began to seize,
It was...
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Categories:
childhood, death, drug, growing
Form: Quatrain
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