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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.


In Stars Above
A dress, tangerine fading into sunflower.
We stand together,
rooftop of a white concrete building.
Higher than clouds, further than moon—
she looks down, my eyes follow.
Our gazes collide...

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Categories: art, death, fire, loss,



It ain't no fun, When the rabbit got the gun
Not its your turn my pretty
to prick your finger on the blade
taste the repercussions of what you have set to cause on my fate

now it...

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Categories: death, angst, betrayal, birth, blessing,

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,

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

Bikini
1946 United States authorities
chose to exercise freedom of choice
and forcibly relocated 167 Marshall islanders
King Juda he agreed as their voice
from Bikini Atoll east to Rongerik
a...

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Categories: abuse, america, death, loss,



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 Echo of your Heartbeat

the first song I ever heard
was not listened to with ears
the rhythmic beat of your heart
was the melody I danced to…
…the whoosh of life blood,...

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Categories: death, mother,

The death of a son
What if I can't continue,
evolving into this mystery? 
What if the story dies with me
grabbing and pulling at the hands of reality, 
what then?
Do the...

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Categories: death, death of a

Premium Member Sympathies
Forget about it
Don’t think about it
It’s not important 
Put it out of your mind

Things I have been told

Advice for the lovelorn
The bereaved
The broken hearted
The lonely

Your...

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Categories: death, 12th grade, bereavement, break

Raak jy aan my - English translation included
Raak jy aan my

Die more son is ‘n kus op my wang
So sag soos ‘n veer, raak jy aan my
met die son en maak my...

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Categories: death, emotions, loss, love,

In the end, we’re just stories left unread
cursive letters pale
fade into weathered parchment—
they were stories once....

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Categories: death, life, loss, memory,

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,

Dear Reader, P3, Please read P1,P2
I think about the person I thought I would be by now, someone stronger, more fearless, more put-together. Someone who didn’t cry over things that...

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Categories: 10th grade, beauty, death,

Painting the Sky
when i was a kid i used to draw a blue line near the top of the paper
that was supposed to be the sky
it started...

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Categories: art, death, heaven, loss,


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