Death Song Poems

Waiting for Death

I wanna die now
I wanna die
Does it really come as a surprise
Look me in my eyes do you despise
Me cause I wanna die

What's the view like after death I wonder
If it's even any better or if we're under
Exactly the same sky with just a different filter
Will it matter if I do things any different

Why should

western north carolina

muddy waters recede
give up beloved dead recovered
appalachian songs eternal

one more day please

A corpse isn't done when it's still
We could provide it a thrill
With will there's a way
To play one more day
Provided someone pays the bill

Mountain Death Song

("Beam Me Up" - photo by CJ Earle, 2015)

Mountain Death Song

beam me up
I've been waiting for a miracle
beam me up 
I've been waiting just for you
beam me up 
I've been waiting for this moment
beam me up 
for there's nothing more to do
beam me up
over the rainbow or down a rabbit hole
beam me up 
beyond the

Death of a Loved One

I lost a friend so long ago
Back in the juvenile years of life
To witness death, too young, 
But Universe thought it wise
To show death to a child. 
I saw her laid in a box 
covered with lively flowers 
And lifeless notes of goodwill
Against my cheeks, I felt
Two hot springs crawl,
I wondered how can anyone 
Be

Purple Boots

Purple boots, he said
  the odd phrase
clanging in his head

Purple boots, he'd bled
  E'er since a poor boy
had tread in those colors
  for his warrior gang

Purple boots, he nearly sang
  as bullets strafed him
the odd phrase 
  to caskets clanged

Still On Patrol

Can you hear the whispers
brought on by the wind storming?
Carried true by the harpers,
the tale the howls are forming?

Came a knock at the farmer's door,
a mailed fist with a fate to turn.
A sob, a wail, a call to war,
a boy, a son, home soon to yearn.

Soon a soldier strode from youth,
to the beat of the

I'Ve Been Working In the Crematory

I've been working in the crematory,
All the livelong sob story,
Can’t you hear the gas jets breathing?
Play too close and you’ll get urned.
Plus we only queue up two-a-day,
So you could really mess us up,
too.
Till six o’clock when on the dot,
The valves are turned to plumb true,
The breathing stops,
Yabadabadoo.

The Requiem

Air of twilight hour resonated in the silence of death,

I heard it compose the requiem for my final breath.

When at dawn the cadence of the symphony would stop, 

you would find me in the transfixed glimmer of dewdrop. 


Written : September 15, 2020
Stanza taken from poem : Requiem For The Final Breath
Contest : Rithimus Divisa

Urban Anthem

How? -- Pow
When? -- Then
Where? -- There
  Why? -- Die
  Who? -- You

Muted and Gone

Dying alone,
a forgotten song

Last lyric unsung
—muted and gone

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)

Stranger With a Badge

Verse 1
Stranger rode into town,   
A stern look on his face,   
Gave thought to his grim task,   
Sworn duty on his mind and dismounted.   

Verse 2
Examined his two six guns, 
Moseyed to hotel bench,  
At noon stood and with care,   
Tied holster to his

May's Flowers

To meet death head on,
You need but a song
  —to carry you on your way

The words needn’t matter
If the melody flatters
  —to be hummed by the people who stay

To meet death head on,
You need only one song
  —that your children may sing out of tune

Because the years they go fast,
Only memories last

True Brotherhood

The helmsman sings a merry song:
Haec est vera fraternas,
and downs a cup of something strong,
Hick, vera, hick, hick, fraternas.

The sailors dance a lusty jig,
forsaking sails, crow's nest and rig.
Young princes and their ladies fair
join in the drunken helmsman's air:
Haec est vera fraternas.

Commoners with nobles prance.
Friars and laymen, how they dance!
The jester sports a broken lance,
a

Your Favorite Song- Brick By Brick

Brick by brick she 
stumbled and crumbled,
one roped to my ankle, 
                         as I drown-
She sits as I stand.
            

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