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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.

WOULD IT CHANGE ANYTHING by Poetic Judy Emery

WOULD IT CHANGE ANYTHING

A life without you is hard this isn't a dream, 
Why, do things have to be this away.
My life is slowly slipping...

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Details | Epic |

Categories: child, cry, death, memory,

The Last Ride by Carol Connell

Tragic reminder 
mangled bike
child’s untimely death.

9/21/18

Submitted for Biker’s Dozen Contest sponsored by Maureen McGreavy...

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Details | Haiku |

Categories: child, death, sad,

Conversation Between Father, Daughter About Mother's Death by Janet Bingham

HOW DEEP IS YOUR TRUST?

What's it like to die? asked the child
looking into her father's eyes.
He held her hand tightly,
and walked away from his wife's...

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Details | Prose |

Categories: bible, child, christian, death,

BEAUTIFULLY ROTTEN by Victor Alaje

I cradle and rock him,
He's so fragile a thing in my arms,
So perfect, so innocent,
So unlike his mother.
His mother was broken and wicked,
A being rotten...

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Details | Free verse |

Categories: dark, death, humanity, innocence,

Our only son by Mustafa Seker

(Son) Father, mother, time has come,
I’ll go out while I’m still young,
To venture out and see creation,
And wander through every nation.

(Father) Silly boy, don’t you...

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Details | Rhyme |

Categories: age, dark, death, humor,

The old knight and Firebreath Part One by Mustafa Seker

A king with might and piety
He rules his land quietly
Silence always seeks sound
Peace ends when it's found

A wizard casts a spell
Damning the king to hell
Creating...

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Details | Epic |

Categories: age, conflict, death, god,

Yet She Smiled by Khalid Khan

She was soft and the winter snow
was out learning good deeds as we know.

Imprisonment or the dead penalty
nothing can affect the inner cruelty.

She was broken...

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Details | Political Verse |

Categories: aubade, dark, daughter, death,

One day just not today by Pranjali Takle

One day may be the tears will dry up,
Today let me shed them freely
One day maybe the pain will reduce,
Today let it engulf me completely
One...

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Details | Free verse |

Categories: death, grief,

MiMi and Mary T by Michael P Walsh

Mimi and Mary T.
By

M P Walsh


It was 25 December,
And a snug-warm Christmas day.
The temp was over 50,
The weather: bright, not gray.

But a sadness on this...

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Details | Ode |

Categories: celebration, death,

Let go by Leo Mbalamana

Cheers 
To all my peers
That wiped down their tears
And became fierce  
To face all their fears 
They can no longer pierce
This heart with spears...

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Details | Personification |

Categories: death, child, children, courage, creation,

A Key For The Maiden by Richard Evans

she enters the room gracefully
belying the heartache inside
her tale of loss floats through the air
like a wind blown kite
a mother child and death 
reduced to...

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Details | Free verse |

Categories: death,

Culture of Death by Holly Primerano

People think that they have found,
a substitute for prayer.
New trends have been endorsed,
perhaps we should be beware.

Our problems are diverse,
but as I look I find,...

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Details | Rhyme |

Categories: death, conflict, corruption,

Journey To Heaven by Celeste Jordan

JOURNEY TO HEAVEN

As I lay in this bed, drifting through life
Peace overcomes me, leaving behind all strife

I enter God’s realm, floating on luscious clouds
Family &...

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Details | Rhyme |

Categories: death, faith, religious, spiritual,

Labrador by Brianna Hobson

Kept on pushing but nothing came
Doctor waves his arms in shame
The nurses don't know who to blame

Instead they take to shivering
The tulips begin delivering
Ivory petals...

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Details | Personification |

Categories: animal, birth, child, death,

YOU PASSED AWAY by JAN ALLISON

FICTIONAL POEM FOR CONTEST

Ever since the day that you passed away
I’ve struggled with life, it’s been so hard
I crouch by your tiny grave at the...

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Details | Enclosed Rhyme |

Categories: birth, death, heartbreak,

The heaven I hate by Isor Chand

When I cannot smell my foul sweat,
What shall I do with smell so sweet?
I had bent too much to be right
And I want it still...

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Details | Rhyme |

Categories: child abuse, culture, death,

I'm So Lazy and Sometimes Crazy by Laura Loo

I have always been so hopelessly lazy.
            Stoic and aloof, sometimes psychotic. 
I can...

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Details | Personification |

Categories: death, dog, family, love,

Slit by Brianna Hobson

The butcher walks in
To cut and keep leftovers,
He's working with meat...

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Details | Haiku |

Categories: death, abortion, birth, creation, gender,

Liquid Language by Carol Connell

There is a wordless language known as tears.
Its voice is clearly heard, make no mistake.
In life’s swift drama played out through the years,
companion of sheer...

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Details | Sonnet |

Categories: birth, child, cry, death,

The Power Find by T.I.R.O. JY

The night is dark, the feeling cold
The mind sets in, this story's old
The burning buildings, the faded screams
The loss of life is always somehow justified...

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Details | Dramatic Verse |

Categories: death, corruption, crazy, cry, dark,