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Grief Death Poems

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


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,



Any given moment, any given time
grief is a complicated feeling; it doesn’t always hold the 
loss of something. But in some cases, in my case, it’s the quiet ache of...

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© toar edge  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: death, grief,

marionette of grief
They birthed me in a house of screams, Where shadows stitched my fevered dreams— No lullaby, no gentle womb, Just rusted chains and cradle's tomb.
A...

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Categories: death, abuse, anger, angst, conflict,

Premium Member The Bell Tower That Leaned In
I. The Pastor’s Hand

At dawn’s brittle cusp—
  he climbs, each step
    a nail in time’s coffin
  breath ragged
  ...

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Categories: death, allegory, bereavement, devotion, imagery,

Premium Member Beyond Grief's Rusty Gate
so harrowing, life journey from radiant light to pitch-darkness - quote by poet.

 a (groaning) dread 
        ...

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Categories: birth, confusion, death, grief,



A night at a graveyard
A gossamer hung on the graveyard's gate.
A spider clung to steel, consuming its meal.
It had no need to know dinner was served late,
Nor sensed ghostly...

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Categories: death, grave, loss, scary,

Heaven's Open Golden Gate
"Open the gates of Heaven's beginning
Where we end thoughts of awful sinning
Where hope and love will be forever
And think of troubles no more, never!"
 ...

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Categories: death, heaven,

Carry you
I carry you with me 
Everywhere that I go.

In my eyes,
In my smile,
In the way I walk,
How I talk, 
Even how I act and dress.

I...

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Categories: death, grief, loss, love,

Premium Member Gate for the Dead
Built in the middle of Nowhere,
A gate of turquoise, very rare,
A sculptor carved a figurehead,
The gate was built to guard the dead.

It's best to come...

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© Ann Peck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: death, fantasy, scary,

No life, No death
Oh death
The fear of countless souls 
I adore your kiss
I need you close
When will we meet?
When shall you come?

It's too long a wait
Please come tonight...

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Categories: death, confusion, grief, hyperbole, imagery,

Premium Member Gate of Undefined Infinity
“Fear of death is fear of surrender to Infinity.”
~ Adi Da Samraj

In my fevered state, I sought the godforsaken
sounds of the gossamer strings of the...

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Categories: dark, death, dream, fear,

Premium Member Gate to our Eternity
"Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity."

--Khalil Gibran

She returns here every May sixteenth,
the day she was to marry. 
I saw...

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Categories: death, fantasy, grave, marriage,

Red, White And Black Blues
The white man stole their land
now the red man has the blues
the white man sold their families
and the black man's still ill-used
the white man shot...

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Categories: america, animal, death, how

Premium Member Gone Through Heaven's Gate
The ghostly night was filled with gloom
As from your grave we walked away.
Grief-stricken, there beside your tomb;
Through Heaven's gate you've gone.

A friend you were until...

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Categories: death of a friend,

Premium Member Through the Rusted Gates
"With each wave of anguish that crashes over me, 
I find myself drowning in my own tears."     ~ by poet

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: death, lost love,


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