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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.


Hurricane 05 - Katrina

The entire city is in darkness
Yet the brightness shines through you
People left to get away, in their cars they drove
I stayed - flood water is
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Categories: change, death, endurance, loss,



The Woman lost to Marius

Foundation.

An elegy and meditative reflection on the disturbing emotions created by loss. 

Some suffer with in silence.

Rather than romanticizing the line — time will heal,
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Categories: death,

Premium Member black sunset

Sunrise or Sunset Haiku with a Color Poetry Contest
Tania Kitchin

smoke scorches her skies
flames engulfed her soul and life
the maui wildfire
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Categories: death, loss, sunset,

Premium Member Death

 Pyramids Poetry Contest 
Joseph May

DEATH
Flat line
Cold hearted

One chamber, one shot
Suicide triggers loss
A good wife left grief-stricken

"Why did he give her a black rose?
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Categories: dark, death,

My Veteran

Forever forever will I miss you Dad,
Even though I tried ofttimes not to be sad.
I know you're in a better place looking down on me,
Smiling
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Categories: death, loss, love,



Sweet to Die

If in thy love I meet my mortal end, how sweet to die,
Or if thy breath restores my soul, what joy draws nigh.

Thou art an
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Categories: death, cute love,

The white woman's tears

Their tears drown out truth
In a thick coating of white lies 
Used to prepare our demise
Each tear, a loss, a death, a wound 
That seals
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Categories: death, cry, discrimination, power, prejudice,

Severed

When you were around things seemed plain,
just how things should be to my brain,
now I look around all in vain,
we’re all less for losing you.
Worse,
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Categories: death, grief, loss, moving

Premium Member She's Still With Me

She came tonight, a whisper soft,  
As I lay reading, lost in thought.  
Her warmth curled close, a phantom grace,  
And time
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Categories: death, beautiful, best friend, care,

Premium Member When feelings war

By evening light of crimson 
Moonlight dabbled through the trees.
Formed shapes of dark and shadow climbed and crawled and followed me. 

Weary eyes did gaze
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Categories: absence, death, leaving, light,

Premium Member Poe

He mourned the loss of his love, for whose support his soul’s survival had come to desperately rely: Lenore!~ the only one less judgmental of
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Categories: character, death, gothic, introspection,

Normalcy

A return to Normalcy
As night comes, all are at ease 
We return to slumber 
In the electric comfort 
Of artificiality that is our lives 
We
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Categories: death, allusion, art, change, confidence,

To my big brother

Roses may be red
And violets blue
But one thing for sure
Is my life is sad without you

You will never get to see me grow
As your time
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Categories: angel, brother, childhood, death,

A black mothers sacrifice

Broken cries diluted the still waters
A mothers pain as she prepares a better life for her daughter
Her bones ached with exhaustion 
Her fractured breathing heavy
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Categories: baby, child, cry, death,

Premium Member In The Rain


I stand in the rain
Unready to start again
The chilling breeze
Brings me to my knees
I light a fire but it burns out
Casting me in the shadow
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Categories: angst, death, depression, how


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