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Elegy Death Poems

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


Premium Member Laika
They called it a seat,
but it was a cradle of fire—
metal-wrapped, bolted shut,
no window,
just the hum of wires
and the memory of old Moscow snow
still clinging...

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Categories: animal, betrayal, death, dog,



Who Am I Now
I was your mom before i was anything else,
My name, before my plans,
Before the life i thought i’d have—
I was yours.

Now the world keeps turning,
But...

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Categories: change, child, death, grief,

The Ghost Inside My Chest
I am the ghost inside my chest, 
Unseen, unheard, yet never at rest. 
I drift through halls of memory, 
Where joy once lived but fled...

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Categories: death, depression, gothic, grief,

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...

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Categories: 12th grade, death, death

Elegy for Tobi Dike
A life that's fading is a flame that's burning out,
I, a mortal, lament the departed soul.
Tobi Dike, your light extinguished—halfway unburned,
leaving us in darkness
—with only...

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Categories: death,



Elegy for Tobi Dike
A life that's fading is a flame that's burning out,
I, a mortal, lament the departed soul.
Tobi Dike, your light extinguished—halfway unburned,
leaving us in darkness
—with only...

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Categories: death,

Premium Member Almost Engaged
Youthful Israeli embassy couple,
almost engaged,
gunshots fired in the May DC eve,
murdered sweethearts,
hate, it never pauses,
almost had hope,
shalom to the world. ~...

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Categories: death, 7th grade, 8th grade,

SWALLOWED BY PAIN
I have long been swallowed by pain.
My face has been sinking in tears pouring like rain.
My walls hear more cries more than anyone 
My pillow...

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Categories: death,

Premium Member Death Entwined in Living Vines
Something dreadful is reflected in this scene
Could be she's seen death in a horrid dream, or
perhaps a relapse of an affliction or addiction
has left her...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: betrayal, dark, death,

Imprints
A martyr poltergeist left an elegy
Not much eulogizing the choice of a strategy.
Its undead friends never met their ends, they cannot be
The least affected by...

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Categories: death, angst, anxiety, conflict, corruption,

When Grief Turns To Grave
No one told me the moment you parted.
My disheartened heart left the room the moment I turned the corner,
and saw his golden badge as he...

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Categories: death, grave, grief,

How do you tell them their little girl will die?
I am 15 years old.
They say my mind is scattered stars,
too many, too bright, too far apart.
A sky that sparkles wildly,
never settling into constellations.

I try....

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Categories: 10th grade, death, deep,

Fondest Farewell
Ere break of day and dawns caress
Till sunset lays our cares to rest
We march and toil to gain what's true
With burdens many, respites few
And labor...

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© Rhan Henry  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: appreciation, death, eulogy,

Premium Member The Cold Embrace of Death
Heinous are the horrors in the rages of war 
after it makes its purchase of pawns.
Brave are those following orders with a salute.
Some will never...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: angst, death, fear,

Grocery Store Grief
I look to my right
And there’s a bin of stuffed animals just like the one you bought me
I look to my left
And there’s your favorite...

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Categories: 9th grade, death, funeral,


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