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Memorial Death Poems

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

Burning Out by mermaid girl

Burning fast and high, but not for long
Flickering away without a final song
Burns so so bright, but its gone so fast
Disappearing is a second, only...

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Details | Free verse |

Categories: death, destiny, fire, grief,

Respect by M. L. Kiser

Respect was Aretha’s request
Every good soul deserves the best
She lived her life
Pure and right
Ever honest and true
Creating music for me and you
To celebrate her life...

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Details | Acrostic |

Categories: death, farewell, funeral, memorial

Camping by tikar osuru

Zeroed out fire
Airformed herring ash
747 crash...

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Details | Haiku |

Categories: death, memorial,

Love to have him here, still: For -CT- Wingfield by Anil Deo

I
he slowed down with compassion -
no judgment, only attention
July 14, Memories Shared
At Randolph Memorial Baptist Church ...

II
CT's two sons, the family, must carry on
Lives, and...

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Details | Didactic |

Categories: death, absence, bereavement, best friend,

For Maya Angelou: Like A Cherished Effigy by Chime Justice Ndubuisi

I hold it up again today; the world,
Pregnant with magical dimples
Of a child's reckless abandon,
And look at the face,
Then I look at the deep cut
And...

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Details | Epitaph |

Categories: bereavement, death, heartbroken, memorial,

Midnight Slaughter by Dylan Hull

In fields of green
 you cannot be seen.
 At night you wait
 while your targets prepare their plates.

A combat knife you have.
 for tonight there...

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Details | Rhyme |

Categories: dark, death, evil, fantasy,

Dark Shadows by Rico Leffanta

I used to live in Dark Shadows
Abutting the cemetery
My wife and her lover plotted
An hole in the ground for me

As grave as it is to...

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Details | Verse |

Categories: death, grave, love, lust,

memorial service by jan hansen

 Local Memorial Service

Outside the funeral agency two employees
dressed for their job, stood smoking, by the pavement 
a hearse with coffin inside stood waiting.
finally, they...

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Details | Blank verse |

Categories: death of a friend,

Once by Alycia Wheatley

Once you were my destiny.
Now you are a memory.
         Gone,
But always a part of me.
...

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Details | Lyric |

Categories: death, destiny, fate, i

WHY WE SOB- free verse on death by MOSES KISIANG'ANI MAKHAKHA

Our mouths open, you leave we gaze
Asking weather, yo’ river or  wind?
Like floods you come,to sweep the beauties
Our eyes you leave, we wipe we...

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Details | Free verse |

Categories: angst, death, fear, memorial,

Happy Holiday -- Happy Memorial Day by Gershon Wolf

Mister Everett Wheeler Cartwright came from Burlington Vermont
All the way to Massachusetts---quite a healthy jaunt

Didn't really understand the cause the Union fought so hard for
Freedom...

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Details | Rhyme |

Categories: death, freedom, grief, remembrance

Boot Hill by Rico Leffanta

Boot Hill is filled with remorse
From folks who could not stay the course
But a lot could be worse
Than a ride in an hearse
For a cowboy...

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Details | Limerick |

Categories: culture, death, endurance, funeral,

Elegy by David Hart

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Details | Rhyme |

Categories: death, appreciation, black african american,

Memorial Day by carlos trevino

Girl weeping in Church
   Memorial day, husband dead
Little girl beside her stares...

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Details | Haiku |

Categories: bereavement, cry, death,

In Memoriam by Andy Sprouse

The tears you shed for a fallen brother,
in grief, in pain, and in memoriam -
the look in the eyes of his mother.

The light revealed through...

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Details | Free verse |

Categories: death, friendship, life, love,

Anasazi Maiden by Jennifer Sanfilippo


I have always filled thy cup
The Young Lover learns our Medicine
The Old Man makes him change
The Hawk soars above my heart
The Four Paws always beside...

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Details | Dramatic Verse |

Categories: culture, death, desire, devotion,

Empty Stall, Quiet Barn, Starless Night, Buried Horse by Stephe Watson



I'm here tonight
to stand in the ache.
The ache of hollow,
the empty of the not 
simply empty; rather,
the empty of the
recently full.

The silent ache of
missingness, of...

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Details | Free verse |

Categories: death, death of a

An accursed abominable deadly epidemic by matthew harris

(alternately titled random axe of violence)

I calculated an average 
of ~10.16.... deaths per year 
of mass school shootings since Columbine, 
a morbid benchmark where,

iGen /...

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Details | Free verse |

Categories: death, 10th grade, 11th grade,

BRUTALITY by JW Nugent

Brutality

Ambushed outside a village
some of the enemy were killed
their bodies tied to our tracks
to drag back trough the village
there to stay as a warning;
our unit...

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Details | Free verse |

Categories: conflict, dark, death, eulogy,

BELIEF by JW Nugent

BELIEF

Hard to breathe 
in this crystalline air
I can feel it’s sharpness.
Nights are seldom pleasant
almost always dangerous.
Charles moves at night
dug in we wait for the attack.
We...

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Details | Free verse |

Categories: angst, conflict, death, destiny,