RossThose endlessly dark COVID unit days
Once lead my emotions and mental state astray
Finally finding solace in online games
For some crumbs of joy from day to day
It was there I met a brand new friend
Who got me through till winters end
His words, thoughts and intentions were true
His music and...
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Categories:
death of a friend, death, death of a
Form: Bio
I remember the family landI remember the land and its people, and I am concerned about the limitations of their mentality. I remember the dead and how the trees outlast them. I hear the language of the trees—the whispering sound of freedom and the resilience of human life, supported by the generosity of a mature land.
The wasteland we leave...
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Categories:
death of a friend, 10th grade, allusion, death
Form: Dramatic Verse
LIFELIFE
Youth gives us sparkle and energy, we are invincible, strong with memory.
Life’s chapters open and close, some long, some brief or quick dose.
The episodes get grayer as we cruise through junctions, while continuing with purpose.
Life is a voyage, full of bumps, tears, laughs and memories
Our world can change in the blink of an eye.
Forks in...
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Categories:
death of a friend, age, america, anniversary, death
Form: Free verse
SilenceSoft blue wind blows cottony clouds
In them I look for beloved’s face
Love never dies but bodies transition
Energy from one place to the unknown
Never can say goodbye
Cherish the memories and laughter
Even when the silence is so loud...
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Categories:
death of a friend, angst, bereavement, blue, death,
Form: Acrostic
CarolUpon the eve of dying
she could not speak.
And all her opened tear ducts
Sprang awake
And flooded forth from
The founts of creation
A new sea.
Oh, yes!
She cried a sea of tears
Because her words
Had passed the door of possibility,
Because her boys
Would not be there
For her to comfort them,
Because, perhaps
A whole life
Needed to be grieved.
How I loved her.
She could hear...
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Categories:
death of a friend,
Form: Free verse
Letter To The Fallen"Memories buried in the wavering wash of time."
I write you now with trembling hand,
The ink runs like the river sand,
Where once we laughed, side by side—
Now silence stands where you had died.
Your dog tags hang from rusted steel,
A ghost’s reminder I still feel.
Your voice just echoes in my chest,
A joke, a shout, your final rest.
We...
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Categories:
death of a friend, 12th grade, death, death
Form: Elegy
Cemetery Holds The Livinghairline chasm threads
cobweb white through obsidian—
wrapped around carved names
once warm on living tongues.
those who lived visit
with heads down,
pretending it’s superstition—
not guilt.
not memory.
not fear of love ending abruptly
in a plot...
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Categories:
death of a friend, death, death of a
Form: Free verse
In Memory OfSo many friends came to say goodbye
Remember the good times, not going to cry
You were such a part of everyone you knew
A special someone for everything that makes up you
Hard to accept that you are no longer here
Keep waiting for the moment when you reappear
It really hit me, hearing the songs you wrote
Nobody else could...
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Categories:
death of a friend, bereavement, death of a
Form: Rhyme
Categories:
death of a friend,
Form: Epigram
grief
a fragrant red rose, dulcet and perfumed soft
with sun kissed petals, rich and dripping sweetness
gently I carry her to you my precious and treasured one
while melodious birds sing songs in low tweets and chirps
and rose is wilting in my hand as she hangs her head dying
as I weep and lay her on the garden grave...
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Categories:
death of a friend,
Form: Verse
Funeral poem In A Better PlaceWhen someone first dies and leaves us,
It’s hard to lift that sense of gloom,
When their body is no longer with us,
But their presence still fills the room.
But within our treasured memories,
We can recollect their smiling face,
For in our heart-of-hearts we know,
They are now in a much better place.
...
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Categories:
death of a friend, cry, death, death of
Form: Rhyme
Lost and Ill-ReplacedOh, what pale imitation now is this?
My train of empty carriages which held
A score of lovers, harem of my flesh,
Now emptied of those who within me dwelled.
These rails since lain to waste, just fractured tracks
In rows like tombstones, each besides its mate
A massacre of fellows, myself cracked,
My new friend, false as shadows, in...
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Categories:
death of a friend, anxiety, death of a
Form: Sonnet
FIREIn the beginning,
it was a wildfire.
The first humans
to witness fire on Earth
could not bear
just to watch.
There was no word
for fire yet.
It illuminated the night
and roasted the flesh of beasts.
When I began writing poetry,
books were burning.
Lightning struck,
and flames spread.
As I watched,
I felt the urge
to kindle fire myself.
There was no word
for poetry yet.
I could walk outside at...
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Categories:
death of a friend,
Form: Other
Eulogy for a BonsaiI have to come clean as I return to see
your ashen corpse and dried leaves
My survival became more important than yours
but now I feel badly.
Humans choose to love their own selves
More than anyone they choose to love
Don’t believe what they say in their poems
I loved you because you would tempt...
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Categories:
death of a friend,
Form: Free verse
The Traveler and his PurseDaylight shouts like madman lurking on the roof
And I could hear the early morning train from a distance speeding like bullets down the track disturbing the
village people with its thundering horn
And the sprinklers lying flat on the garden lawn soaked
the earth just before the break of dawn and the
people could breathe fresh air.
They set out...
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Categories:
death of a friend, appreciation, business, change, character,
Form: Narrative
Specific Types of Death Of A Friend Poems
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