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Child Death Poems

These Child Death poems are examples of Death poems about Child. These are the best examples of Death Child poems written by international poets.


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...

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Categories: cancer, death, father daughter,



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...

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Categories: absence, death, faith, grief,

Once Upon A Time
Still a child at heart
tho' older are some other parts
and only for a lark
back to my childhood here I hark
I remember a rhyme
in the far...

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Categories: animal, death, humor, humorous,

Premium Member Alone in the Cemetery
"...Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken...

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Categories: bible, child, dad, death,

Sanctuary
The cemetery is not silent.
It hums—soft and steady—
like a lullaby remembered
just before sleep.

This is not a place of endings,
but of quiet continuance.
Here, the earth does...

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Categories: death,



Final Letter From The Trenches
Dear Ma, if this letter finds
Your gentle hands, your quiet eyes,
Knowing I have fallen where silence climbs,
Beneath a blood-rubbed, broken sky.

The wind here howls like...

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Categories: 12th grade, appreciation, death,

Premium Member Twisted Fairy Tale - Little Red Riding Hood
Once upon a time, or a few times per day, we ponder just how many ways in which we must die. There are forewarnings. Let's...

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Categories: death,

Premium Member Paint Me an Ugly Duck, lyrics
Awakened and degenerated, I feel I am clashing somewhere 
The clouds appear and then depart, just another face amongst billions  
Millions of colors of...

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© G. Jay  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: art, conflict, death, flower,

THE CITY OF SIRTE
She rose from the sand like a favoured child
Cradled by waves and draped with oil.
A city birthed from
A legacy carved to outlive time.

She wore power...

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Categories: death, 12th grade, absence, abuse,

A Horrific Scenario
A silent forest, where trees are red
The sky is green, where the animals are dead
I come across a flowing river
The sight enough to make me...

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Categories: death, fear, life,

Premium Member Armageddon, Lyrics


Broken souls and disillusioned dreams.
(Drowning in a sea of dread…)
Broken toys and angels without wings.
(Fragile things…)
Weep for the fallen brothers and infants without mothers.
(No light,...

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© G. Jay  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: death, war, world war

2 DAYS OF LIFE
Mother whispered stories from the start,
Of the day that etched her heart.
A newborn cry, her tears flowed free,
Tears of joy—for that cry was me.

The family...

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Categories: birth, birthday, death, farewell,

MY FEELINGS
MY FEELINGS OF LONELINESS AND ABANDONMENT HAVE METASTASIZED THROUGHOUT MY BODY.
THE RUSH OF EMOTIONS AND SORROW FLUCTUATE EVERY DAY, SOMETIMES EVERY SECOND. 
I STAY AWAY...

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Categories: death, addiction, analogy, anxiety, beauty,

Lao Tzu: English Translations II
LAO TZU ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS I

Be Like Water
by Lao Tzu, translation by Michael R. Burch

The highest virtue resembles water
because water unselfishly benefits all life,
then settles, without...

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Categories: death, heaven, life, mother,

Callimachus English Translations II
Callimachus English translations

For Gail White

To the Cup-Bearer
by Callimachus
translation by Michael R. Burch

Decant the wine then toast "To Diokles!" Nor does the beautiful boy Achelous touch...

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Categories: beautiful, boy, death, flower,


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