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Loss Death Poems

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

Ezra Schwartz by Bill MacEachern

Ezra Schwartz 
Oct 1, 1997 – Nov 19, 2015

The dice of terror
Was cast that day
Young Ezra’s life 
Was taken away

He went to Israel
For his gap...

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Details | Rhyme |

Categories: death,

Black Powder, Paradise by Gregory R Barden


I consider it ...
with indifference, at first ...
the black charcoal powder coating the sole of my boot ...
I slap at it casually and watch it...

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Details | Free verse |

Categories: analogy, death, fire, horror,

Night Tidings by Michelle Rensburg

A jackal cries in the distance
And I jolt awake
The candle is still awake 
And my falcon glares at me, 
one stern, yellow eye keeping me...

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Details | Narrative |

Categories: africa, bereavement, death, loss,

My partner's love by Kristen Bailey

When I lost my partner, I thought I would die,
It seemed so unfair, it must be a lie.
It had to be my hands that ended...

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Details | Ode |

Categories: animal, death, dog, grief,

Sonnet 4 by Andrew Fairchild

The Beauty of the End, is, It's Beginning!
For Aspen never rise, till fire is still,
And all Endeavors, Loves, and Lives are Ash...
All that is product...

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Details | Sonnet |

Categories: death, fire, introspection, life,

Every Minute Is A Gift by Caren Krutsinger

Every minute is a gift
We often do not realize it
Until we feel our minutes
are numbered

Every minute is a choice
They are not replaceable
So please choose wisely

Every...

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Details | Free verse |

Categories: death, life, loss,

Mourning Motioned by Keshan Govender

Results restore, relieving remedy
Steadying hopes, hollowing mopes
Chairs emptied, weighted sheet
Remembrances brightened, life faded
A stiffening corpse; a diminishing soul. 

Patience' patient, praying promises
Fluctuating lines, straining worry
Clocks...

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Details | I do not know? |

Categories: death, deep, feelings, funeral,

Son of a Gun's Homecoming by Julian Scutts

I'm the son of a gun.

You can call me the son of Sam.

I kill, Bang, bang, you're dead..

I kill. therefore I am.



I remember  my...

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Details | Cowboy |

Categories: america, anger, angst, death,

Amber by Carolyn Fish

I heard your laugh come through my voice today,
I'm sure that means you were right by my side,
It was four short years back just yesterday,
The...

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Details | Elegy |

Categories: death of a friend,

Tonight Heaven Got One Hell of a Man by M.P. Shaudd

They dont make em like they used to he said
With a tear on his face
And we each share a mem'ry of him
That sorrow and time...

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Details | Lyric |

Categories: appreciation, death, dedication, eulogy,

To Those That Have Walked Dark Halls Of Deepest Grief by Robert Lindley

To Those That Have Walked Dark Halls Of Deepest Grief

Truth of deep grief and its healing powers;
Are not in the anguish pains that invade,
With the...

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Details | Sonnet |

Categories: death, deep, family, feelings,

An American Hero by jon gutmacher

An American Hero
copyright 2015 by jon gutmacher

I hear the muffled drums
in the distance
People stop
some shed tears
men remove their hats
others place a hand over their heart
remembering...

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Details | Free verse |

Categories: america, courage, death, dedication,

DEATH by David Byrne

The obvious it seems disappoints,
The lack of insight stamped on, like an ignorant ant.
You and I will die, what of it?

I think nothing of sleep...

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Details | Free verse |

Categories: art, atheist, death,

I Didn't Listen by John Steward

I Didn’t Listen

Thoughts of days gone by drift through my mind
Visions of you appear as though magic,
I know mistakes that left you behind
Results of our...

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Details | Rhyme |

Categories: angst, death, drink, grief,

Another Angel by Juanita Oosthuizen

Beneath a comfortless, cold moon,
a rose was pluck too soon  -
Perhaps it’s not so:
	for he is now living,
	and we are dying…
God only collected another...

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Details | Elegy |

Categories: death, goodbye, grief, loss,

Strapped on my mother's back by Luyanda Ngema

Chatter of women fill the streets
Happy screams of children in perfect harmony
A beautiful world I see
A knot holds me steady 
My mother's back a safe...

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Details | I do not know? |

Categories: child, death, loss,

They Sang by Gary Smith




They sang as they marched

And boarded the trains,

They sang as they set out to sea.

They sang as they trooped

Down french country lanes,

They sang of a...

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Details | Rhyme |

Categories: death, loss, world war

Goodbye by Andy Sprouse

Black angels rose today,
behind the dark sun that birthed them.
They bore me news of the grave,
one more friend too early sent.

My heart and the sky...

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Details | Free verse |

Categories: death, death of a

MOURNING by Tiffany Harvester

THE NIGHT HAS FALLEN
UPON ME
DREARY AND SULLEN
DARK AS ALASKAN WINTER
I AM LEFT
DUMBSTRUCK
EMPTY AS THE MIDNIGHT AIR
THE WORLD
HAS LOST ALL MEANING
THERE IS A SUDDEN MADNESS
DEVOURING ME
I...

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Details | Free verse |

Categories: death, father, loss,

My Choice by Sandra Weiss

I am a nurse, pediatrics was my choice.
There were days of smiles, days of tears.
I was their advocate, I was their voice.
I was there to...

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Details | Quatrain |

Categories: appreciation, children, death, grief,