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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.


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 Hades, a Fragment
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

Why can't Heaven send you back to me?
No one can comprehend the loss of a child. We can only have empathy and compassion and hold space for those who are struggling to...

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Categories: death, grief, heartbreak, heartbroken,

Pit Bull
Tell me, dog with the big teeth,
What do you see past that muzzle of yours?
What do you hear through the whispers of those that go...

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Categories: abuse, death, dog, hate,

Beyond the mourning of bereavement no stilled tears
Beyond the mourning of bereavement no stilled tears

Today marks fifth anniversary of tragic deaths
an aching breaking heart – mine
remembers four extinguished breaths.

dashed – not while...

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Categories: absence, anniversary, august, death,

Premium Member Fists Clenched in Slogans
    His plaintive cry pierced the air
       pleading to travel somewhere

    Sympathizers marched...

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Categories: cry, death, sad, sympathy,

Premium Member At Death’s Door
There’s a rattle in my chest
And a battle beneath my breast
No longer do I desire to eat
My body is wretched failing weak
But the spiritual me...

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Categories: death, appreciation, art, beautiful, blue,


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