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Suicide Death Poems

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


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,



I would let him die

I would see him die, rather than saving him.

I don't know what his life could be after he dies, or if he would be saved.

If
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Categories: angst, conflict, confusion, death,

When they failed black kids without homes

Her hair stood out
Reaching for the skies
Wishing on every star at night
Someone would hear her cries
Her need to have a life she doesn't just have
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Categories: death, child abuse, discrimination, prejudice,

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There is too much silence after death
From the one who leaves and the ones bereft
And the ones bereft are the ones who need
The One who's
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Categories: death of a friend,

One Small Step, One Giant Leap

With those who
want to test the waters,
and yet have no wish
to get their feet wet,
but wait to have their cake
(and eat it too)
handed to them
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Categories: crazy, death, humor, mental



I once contemplated Suicide

I once contemplated suicide, 
But only if I couldn’t have you by my side, 
Reading my eulogy, shedding a few tears is nothing compared to
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Categories: death, anger, anxiety, black african

Premium Member Thoughts of Suicide

Tendencies to sense in me,
The will to kill the self,
Arise when I have thoughts to be, 
Another page upon this shelf.

Book is but a tale
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Categories: addiction, death, how i

Poor Little Dog

I am so unhappy. 
More than when I wanted to suicide. 
I recently had  a puppy. 
Life was really is do or die 
He
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Categories: allegory, anxiety, dark, death,

On Returning Leftover Peppermint to My Neighbor

Digestion liquesces peppermint. I chew
the leaves for both of us, an aftertaste

when stillness is an afterthought.
Dust gleams like the raised plastic on a debit card.

Winds
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Categories: bereavement, community, confusion, death

Burnt Out Bulbs

You never saw past the glory days of 17. 
Because you got sad and thought it a better idea
to hang yourself from the ceiling fan
instead
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Categories: death, 10th grade, 11th grade,

Premium Member Beyond Grief's Rusty Gate

so harrowing, life journey from radiant light to pitch-darkness - quote by poet.

 a (groaning) dread 
        
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Categories: birth, confusion, death, grief,

Premium Member Death to Life in Him

Death is to be my great enemy
For in living I am to be
The friend of life, and put to death
That force that longs to steal
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Categories: death, christian, depression, love, mental

Premium Member IF I WOULD HAVE KNOWN


When you're so low you have to reach up just to touch bottom.

Then when you've reached the bottom you still have to climb higher to
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Categories: anxiety, death, depression, remember,

My blood, my comfort

She always hated the sight of blood
But now it had become her greatest comfort
She felt her blood was the only one who understood 
What it
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Categories: death, depression, discrimination, mental health,

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,


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