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Sympathy Death Poems

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


Wilderness
Wilderness 

Moonlight stretches into the clearing,
intangible ...but offering comfort.
She is dying now, pining to be rescued,
her breathing jagged, her endurance spent;
the bullet had lanced her...

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© Ian Souter  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: animal, death,



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

If they shoot, tell my story
If they shoot, tell my story

A boy writes a letter to his mother
She will know nothing of it
Until
Something bad happens
But he knows something will
He knows...

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Categories: death, discrimination, grief, mother

IT IS TO BE
IT IS TO BE

To be or not to be, that is the question
That was the famous playwright, I recall
But to some, it might offer a...

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Categories: care, death, life,

Premium Member A Sudden Loss
How can a day start off normal
With the mundane usual things,
Almost predictable, daily tasks and trips
Life's general happenings?

Then someone you love hugs you goodbye,
"I'll see...

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Categories: death, grief,



Premium Member Death Is
No words will make it better
I stare at the empty store-bought sympathy card
What to write to my cousin who has just lost her mother?
Years later...

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Categories: death,

Premium Member We Hold You Close
Beyond this realm
of all we know
exists another
where souls can grow.

A welcome space
proved true by faith
where wings, brand new,
are greeted, embraced.

This special place
of peace and calm
is...

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© Deb Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: death, grief, in memoriam,

Green Fields to Cold Steel
The fire burns, with embers glow
Even still, this house feels cold
The wind softly sighs it's goodbyes

I lay two plates upon the wood
Though one gets cold
I...

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Categories: 12th grade, death of

Premium Member Finding Comfort

In the silence of a summer thought,
Blessed by the quiet
Who is cold and distraught…

Grief steals the colors of sea and hope
Revealing gray hue
Broken hearts –...

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Categories: death, funeral, grief, sorrow,

Premium Member We Shall Return With Zilch
Believe it or not
The Parson is right
We shall return with zeroes
Many zeroes.  Let’s be Heroes
For and to the world. Let’s not be selfish
Because we...

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Categories: america, anti bullying, death,

Premium Member The King and the Sage
I thought it was enough I loved them all.
Yet love may rise, whilst lives about one fall.
In myriad hopes conceiving were I tasked,
Yet all the...

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Categories: allegory, courage, cry, death,

Premium Member Descent Into Hades
To journey, yet alive, through Hades’ Gates,
Brings sorrow to the world, and to the Fates.
Yet Hades is the home accepting all,
And I shall catch thee,...

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Categories: death, allegory, destiny, devotion, eulogy,

Epiphany
Reflecting its neighbourhood,
The lake water shone yellow.
Resembling a synchronisation of saturation 
With the setting sun.
Seizing green colour of the grasses 
The sun painted them gold.

Engrossed...

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© Tapan Nath  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: age, death, extended metaphor,

Just five more minutes

I wonder about the turn of the world
As time passes and thoughts are held
A litany of lost ones linger
Of conversations requiring sympathy quite ginger

But the...

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Categories: 8th grade, death, death

Premium Member Memorial

He said goodbye,
With a smile, a hug, a gentle
That always leaves me
Feeling sentimental

He said “you’re good”
Even when I felt misunderstood,
Even when I wasn’t doing what...

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Categories: appreciation, blessing, death, death


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