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Mother Death Poems

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


W S Rendra translation of 'Hai Ma' or 'Hi Mom'
My English translation of "Hai Ma" by W. S. Rendra, a son to his mother and soulmate.

HAI MA ("HI MOM")
by W. S. Rendra
translation by Michael...

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Categories: death, heart, life, mother,



Premium Member A Directional Curse
A Directional Curse

The first time I heard
“Go to hell.”
where it seemed
not just an aimless curse
but a direction.

The empty soul
in bright orange;
couldn’t miss him,
but they aim...

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Categories: death, fate,

Premium Member The execution
The women fell upon the bodies of the dead,
clearing blindfolds for one last look upon their face.
Shot, against a carmine wall, no matter how they...

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Categories: death,

Sometimes in Srebrenica
It might be a city of paradise in Bosnia,
Its memories are as fragile as a vase 
The horrors and tears stained on the canvas of...

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Categories: death, history, war,

Premium Member Before my mom gave me birth
I’ve known my mother 
since before I had a shape,
when my soul — a seed of silent stars,
was still searching for its furrow.

I was an...

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Categories: absence, child, death, family,



Premium Member evanesce
( for Mom )

I’ll treasure dear while growing old
          I clasped your hand til it waxed...

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Categories: analogy, death, introspection, loss,

Premium Member Both Sides Now
'Both Sides Now' on YouTube Music
by Joni Mitchell


Poet's verses: 

Bows on solemn flower blooms
and scented layers of flared perfume
flow down rows of headstones and tombs.
I've...

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Categories: baby, cry, death, emotions,

Premium Member Life After Delivery: A Tale of Twins
Twin babies float in their mother’s womb
growing strong they'll  be delivered soon
communicating to each other in their way
 experiencing so much, and much to...

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Categories: analogy, baby, birth, death,

IN THE LAND OF PEACE
Once upon a time
in a faraway land
There was an old man, who had forgotten how to speak
His eyes would stare into the sky, void of...

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Categories: abuse, corruption, death, dedication,

Gone Are the Days
I look back to the halcyon days
When Mrs Johnson,
A comely widow, ran fruitful
Errands for the new railway, and for
Our undeveloped district.
A frail, little maid in...

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Categories: death, depression, mother, mother

A Qualitative Report on a Single Subject Ego Death
Hypothesis:
What is an ego anyways
Are we born with it
And from the moment we have the willpower 
we’re tasked with muting it
Or does it grow from...

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Categories: change, death, mental health,

Premium Member Death is the mother of beauty
"Death is the mother of beauty;"



Death

as nothing is

not separate from

beauty~

death is

mother appearing

as beauty~

resulting in This

as it is~~~





She says, “But in contentment I still feel

The need...

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Categories: death, dark, words,

If God was a woman
If God were a Woman
But, He ain’t
The Bible tells me so
He wouldn’t abandon His children
Like a deadbeat Dad
Create stars to foster kin
Use child labor to...

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Categories: allah, christian, death, god,

Premium Member NOT HOLDING HANDS
Why couldn't I hold your hand? You ask
Yourself in golden bowers of infinity -
Was it because he felt too old to do it?
It was too...

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Categories: bereavement, death, emotions, mom,

Matsuo Basho: English translations 3
Matsuo Basho: English translations of haiku about birds, flowers, candles, life, death.

Naptime!
But my drowsiness is nixed
by busybody warblers.
—Matsuo Basho, translation by Michael R. Burch

Carolers:
the sparrows...

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Categories: bird, culture, death, flower,


Book: Reflection on the Important Things