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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.


I once contemplated Suicide
I once contemplated suicide, 
But only if I couldn’t have you by my side, 
Reading my eulogy, shedding a few tears is nothing compared to...

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Categories: death, anger, anxiety, black african



Premium Member A Difficult Decision
dog stricken
with cancer;
euthanized.

out of her
 m i s e r y;
dog owner

hollowed out
by deep grief;
best friend, gone!


...

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Categories: cancer, death, dog, friend,

Intuitive Clones of Progress and Dying
Intuitive Clones of Progress and Dying

Obsidian stones for some contrite emotional relief 
Oblivion clones marching in combined technocratic belief
Meridian moans of melancholy surging with existential...

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Categories: death, life,

LADY IN RED
beautiful red gushes through the exit
beautiful red drips down your forehead
beautiful red does not love you no more
but beautiful red hugs you for a little...

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© ren nnnnnn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: 8th grade, death, god,

A Gold Digger
She appeared like a shadow in silk,
On 57th Street,
Where men lose themselves
Trying to impress ghosts.

Victoria — that was her name.
She smiled not with warmth,
But with...

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Categories: beautiful, dark, death, fantasy,



Premium Member A few lessons of grief
Each person grieves in their own way,
processing loss is never easy.

It helps to have understood early on
that nothing lasts forever.

Death is part of this life...

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Categories: death, grief, heart, life,

Life after death
Death strikes with its wicked grin,
Deep grief and sorrow it brings,
Flights to heaven then begin,
When our souls fly without wings,
Each saint bears a halo ring,
They...

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Categories: angel, death, flying, grief,

A funeral for myself
It was a funeral for myself 
And I still haven't buried her yet
The sky opened up and released its anger 
Rained down in grief and...

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Categories: death, discrimination, funeral, prejudice,

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,

Premium Member 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,


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