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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.


The Woman lost to Marius

Foundation.

An elegy and meditative reflection on the disturbing emotions created by loss. 

Some suffer with in silence.

Rather than romanticizing the line — time will heal,
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Categories: death,



Premium Member Dweller of our heart

"The essence in us is the same as the essence of the sun”

Dweller of our heart

A sun went out, a silent, sudden night,
and left a
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Categories: death, death of a

Where the wildflowers grow

When i die,
Lay me by
Where the wildflowers grow

Then as I lay,
You can pray
For my presence to ‘round you flow

And as winter calls,
And the ice falls
And
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Categories: death, nature, peace, remember,

Elegy

Near the end of my journey,
the sky rains rusty gold, grains from
heaven cleanse my earthy pores
	—Bites of crimson filth spread
	a plague of exhausted stars

I let
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Categories: death,

Death in the New Year

Our hands are tied, Death
Since you dawned on us this New Year . . .

Shapely bottles of champagnes have shone
And have broken to fragments with
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Categories: death, sorrow,



In One City

I know a funeral when I walk into one
I can tell between a funeral and a burial
They are two entirely different artworks
One is done on
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Categories: community, death, farewell, funeral,

Never say that she is dead

We will not say that she is dead.
We have never said that she is dead. 
We will never say that she is dead. 

We’ll say
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Categories: death, funeral, goodbye, grandparents,

Cold, Cold Ground

The cold, so cold ground
Binding and pulling
And holding me down

Embraced by the crypt
Confined and restrained
And life’s breath stripped

Stygian inked
Such stifling dark
And soul’s light extinct

I find
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Categories: dark, death, gothic, grave,

Premium Member Abrupt Silence

Here one day gone the next
I did not know you very well 
You were always nice to me 
Commonalities in passing

Sudden sadness in the clouds
The
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Categories: death,

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,

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,


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