Reading and writing poems about the death of a loved one are a beautiful way to deal with the emotions and trauma associated with mortality. These beautiful and inspirations poems about death help us see how others are enduring the loss of a parent, other family members, a friend, or loved one. Everyone’s experiences are different, and we cannot compare feelings, but coping with grief and death is something all must go through, and we can learn from the sadness and reactions of others expressed in poetry.
Of Mice and MenI am a mouse, catatonic with fear;
just trying to stay still and silent,
to survive.
Batted about by an indifferent cat;
for him a lazy afternoon,
for me an aching lifetime.
It has no idea of the torture it inflicts;
no...
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Categories:
anger, death, grief, loss,
Form: Free verse
AppearancesThe distress... fatigue, combined with restlessness, tossing, and turning. Assuming I possess more energy than I truly do because what is worse, exhausting oneself or lying there, depleted? Many of us meet our end wishing...
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Categories:
city, cry, dark, death,
Form: Free verse
When silence speaks
Somber clouds form - rain spits.
His mother clenches freshly laid soil,
screaming his name. Three crows glare.
His daughters, shivering, hold each other,
their gaunt eyes, still sore from shock.
Now there are no words, there is no explanation.
His...
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Categories:
death, suicide,
Form: Free verse
The DollThere once was a doll
Bruised and battered
Slanted on a wall
Like it never mattered.
The doll once mattered
When the girl was small
And her dreams weren't shattered
As she was yet to fall.
She fell along with her doll
Embraced...
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Categories:
childhood, death, emotions, life,
Form: Rhyme
GriefGrief holds me in bed
Beats me down
Destroys my mind
I can't bring myself to face it....
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Categories:
bereavement, cry, dark, death,
Form: Free verse
Pheasant HuntingThe sun has brung out a low spinescene
against the brush housing thrush and pheasants
My father moves as death, silhouetted
A proper Shropshire lad I hang my neck
In shame and solidarity. The brittleboned,
the sky-minded, evicted from...
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Categories:
bird, death,
Form: Sonnet
The Kiss of Back================================================
"Your enemies know you, as you know them, and truth bears on--face to face ... The Mirror Cracks ... Your friends know you, as you know them, and truth bears on--face to back," by the...
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Categories:
analogy, betrayal, death, friendship,
Form: Concrete
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Categories:
death, moving on, murder,
Form: Prose Poetry
Whispers of the ForgottenIn the shadowed alcove of memory, Where forgotten dreams curl like smoke, I wander, a spectral seeker, Tracing the edges of existence.
The moon, a pale witness, Hangs low, its silver gaze unyielding, As if it...
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Categories:
age, anxiety, death, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Brutal CalvaryThat time when Jesus walked among men
has long passed, only faint images remain;
and the curious crowds followed Him everywhere:
they heard a wisdom from the mouth of dare!
Herod was a savage: the king of Jerusalem;
too jealous...
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Categories:
character, conflict, death, devotion,
Form: Rhyme
The Departure Or The Loss Of A Darling SpouseIt's heartrending to lose a spouse
A very special woman who shares the house
With your body, your heart and your soul
It's very hard to feel losing your whole
Your being, everything you have
It's utterly sad and strange...
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Categories:
anxiety, betrayal, crush, death
Form: Rhyme
HerLet the rain fall, let it pour,
Open all the windows and doors.
Slow the footsteps around the house,
Make all the voices quiet, just like a mouse.
Can you hear the sorrows howl...
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Categories:
death, depression, heartbreak, hurt,
Form: Elegy
A Paradox of Time Reborn
The sun, resplendent in its blazing might,
Burns fiercely o'er a barren, lifeless waste,
A desert dry and vast where earth is scorched
By searing radiation, deathly bright.
No sign of life but one lone phoenix flies,
Soaring precarious, close...
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Categories:
allegory, creation, death, destiny,
Form: Blank verse
A New Mad American EmpireThis is the edge of America
This is the edge of America
The land of the free
Home of the brave
The Republic of Tyrannies
White hoods and black fist
Cities in flame
Agent Orange burns
Television drones on
Into the static...
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Categories:
death, america, analogy, anger, art,
Form: Free verse
DeathDeath always keeps looking for me
Hiding in the shadows like a thief in the night
If I am not here I will be somewhere else
When I am drowning a life jacket is thrown
Death curses his failure...
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Categories:
bible, death, emotions, heaven,
Form: Free verse
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
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