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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.


Find My Broken Heart
Yesterday,
I was writing poems about small things—
how small beings dwell,
how they endure,
the quiet life we don't notice.
A spider spinning a web in a corner.
A bird...

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Categories: children, conflict, death, emotions,



Premium Member After Their Deaths '21-'22
After he died, I'm always drinking.
After she died, I'm always smoking.
Because what use is a life worth living
If I cannot numb the grief I am...

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Categories: cousin, death, grandfather, grief,

Premium Member A Broken Soul
Oh, my little angel, looking into your 
eyes wasn’t easy as you always had 
them closed,
Happy and peaceful as you enjoyed 
your afternoon doze,
I wonder...

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Categories: angel, death, grief,

Shattered Dreams In The Sky

Dreams were shattered like glass shards,
As innocent lives were pushed into the jaws of death.
Some doctors, engineers, accountants, and bards,
Extinguished were the candles of their...

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Categories: death, emotions, eulogy, in

It's better this way
Sometimes I miss you more than ever
Seeing sunsets or paperclips
Seeing things you wouldve loved and not being able to tell you about it
I know you...

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Categories: death, deep, depression, grief,



Premium Member Unscheduled Departure
I had not woken from sleep.
Feeling weightlessness, I peeked,
observing my body laid decease.
Slowly arisen to uncalmly peace,
realizing that I had passed in sleep.
Abnormal emotions so...

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Categories: death, faith, family, goodbye,

The Colors of Nothing

In our universe so vast, life and death is an interpretation.
In our life, we hold dear sadness, and joy is an imagination.
Our life is full...

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Categories: death, 10th grade, angst, color,

Premium Member Bride of the Sea
Ships sink to bottom in billowing sea;
"It's in that number," apparent to some;
Walking the coast, "I'm no widow," said she;
Either await or admit it won't...

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Categories: death, hope, life, lost,

Are you okay?
“Are you okay?” They ask me as my grandfather gets ripped from his bed.
“Are you okay?” They ask me as i acfively watched my grandfather...

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Categories: anger, care, death, grandchild,

as we metamorphose
dean meat-mad @impossible3 
rob'in'/hood; 
all get free lunches 1week
says impossible3 need2learn: responsibility

clean: building lab/gym 3decas old 
when meat-looks mattered

laze lock/chains (nokey)
dust!dirt!choke!cough!
meat reflex: disgust

hands make meat...

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Categories: bereavement, change, death, moving

If they shoot, tell my story
If they shoot, tell my story

A boy writes a letter to his mother
She will know nothing of it
Until
Something bad happens
But he knows something will
He knows...

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Categories: death, discrimination, grief, mother

The accident was accidental
That day on Earth was filled with fun,
The weather was mild and clement.
The sun beamed down with gentle grace,
Cool air had just chased off the...

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Categories: angel, death, drink, fire,

Premium Member A Mother's Pain
Two mothers who never met were connected by tragedy, murder and death.
They gave birth to two different offspring that in one moment would alter both...

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Categories: death, angst, care, grief, hurt,

Premium Member dreaming daughter
dreaming daughter ascends starlit harbor....
to her father's biding love

he is as she remembered....jovial in the 
way he was on earth

they embrace in the twilight....stars fill
their...

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

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,


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