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Death. Poems - Poems about Death.

Premium Member THE WAKE WITOUT VIGIL
THE WAKE WITHOUT VIGIL Time longer than rope Chokes hearts dangling In the reality of struggle:- Grieving mothers and widows Veil their grief in sagging bosoms As they wail in excruciating silence:- Fragments of men, void of hope, View and count communal graves Swelling with dirt burying the dead:- (Buried are “The Wretched Of...

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Categories: death., bereavement, death, eulogy, extended
Form: Prose
Carol
Upon 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., death of a friend,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Bearing Bad News
Each year Memorial Day causes much lament, and today will be viewed as another life recap. A day we honor heroes whose lives were spent, who, for freedom, willingly stood in the gap. Too many families are attached to someone, who served country and didn’t return intact. Body bags, their ticket home to a loved one, today, they remember that door knock’s...

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Categories: death., death, memorial day,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Hyvasti
Butting heads, locking horns the difficult child of three if anyone was causing grief It was always going to be me, a stubborn chip from a stubborn old block never at ease we two so I left and made a life for myself far from the one you knew, you pushed too hard to tie me down I went and you felt betrayed, you...

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Categories: death., cancer, death, father daughter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Calmness Midst Cemetery Call
Calmness bids me as grief strives to cease Enabling sincere thanksgiving-prevalence Midst gloom, hiding serenely still while Exemplifying grace under pressure... yet Tears cannot anymore control their fall Exposing prayer of my heart for closure Recognizing heaven's victory over death since Yon the grave is eternal bliss with the Source of life. ...

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Categories: death., appreciation, blessing, death, faith,
Form: Acrostic



A Field Called Cemetery
A field where the departed rest, Some have toiled on this earth and given their best. We bring flowers as we mourn for those we've lost, Grieving deeply, our hearts feel its cost. A field where silence drowns the noise of the day, The soul has passed through the last...

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Categories: death., death, inspirational,
Form: Quatrain
Life And Times
Said he, “Life is but a short journey, a dead end at best and over all too fast, but along the way admire the view, enjoy the ride while it may last. No ifs ands or buts, there are no shortcuts, we all fall by the same sword and the race well run, from the starting gun, is...

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Categories: death., age, death, fate, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cemetery
“The cold stones of cemetery inscribe in emptiness the petrified story long forgotten” – By Poet The grey sky was gloomy as that of my morose mind, as I pushed open the rusted gate, entered the sprawling cemetery. I stood still in front of the grey stones in rows, some large, some small, in columns, some erect, some...

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Categories: death., death,
Form: Free verse
Her little light
The colours of the world have faded My life, I would of traded She was taken to soon Her time on Earth a fleeting tune Only three brief years she knew Now, she’s gone from our view The world feels black and white Without her shining light Too young, too precious, too sweet In her absence, life feels incomplete She should be here, by my...

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Categories: death., absence, death, faith, grief,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tombstones in the Cemetery
Human life is striving for joy while saturated with busy bits of an emotional seesaw, its movements leave traces in so many places, our goal seems pre-disabled. So, it is that despite emotional throes we seek fulfillment over and over. As God's own designed, divine-honed souls, we are light sourced as formed in His realm. Reincarnation...

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Categories: death., color, creation, death, deep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Souls in the Cemetery
“Death is the last chapter in time, but the first chapter in eternity.” – Author unknown Life Lived, now- departed. Souls gathered at - cemetery graves. Spirits now free, and at peace. To rest. Death ...

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Categories: death., death, life, loss, spiritual,
Form: Ninette
Premium Member Don't Bring Me Flowers
A fragile heart laments these lifeless limbs a price paid for lifes unwanted torments. As I drift, the fugacious sun begins to dim, to conscious dreams, of youths sweet innocence. Your makeup still sleeps on sheets of silk while I languish in the beauty of your scent, Love slipping through my fingertips like soap, I closed my eyes too long, now...

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Categories: death., death, love, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cemetery Thoughts, Some Grave
The family plot’s on cold pavement and hidden in grass, but warm with familial heartbeats. Otherwise, the dead become spectrals, fearsome at midnight. —by poet Cemetery Thoughts, Some Grave Not dark and scary, slightly sunlit. walked the pavement, not like the unknown’s sentry, but still deliberately, in this quiet almost public space, a location hidden from me, though I stood right where I am now - over...

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Categories: death., death,
Form: Free verse
Love Ends In Cemetery
[Verse 1] Well, hello there, Romeo — didn’t hear you knock Waltzin' in like love ain’t got a lock You've got big dreams and a borrowed car And a fistful of daisies like that’ll get you far She’s got your name in her diary heart But I’ve seen boys like you come apart You think you're chasing paradise and lace But you’re one...

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Categories: death., angst, dad, death, dream,
Form: Lyric
NO MORE
My shadow still lingers closely, Though only from behind. There's no more leading shadow, All that's left, is die... As I lead our way through, the turbulent times ahead; My shadow hides behind me, until It knows that I am Dead... As I look upon these stones, scattered across this land, Most of which I knew and...

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Categories: death., anxiety, death, funeral, remember,
Form: I do not know?

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