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Death Elegy Poems

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


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RELEASE

For loving memory
 she must depart 
forever lovely 
forever apart

My lilac of beauty 
white satin dream
 in solitude and raindrops
 forever it seems




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Categories: beauty, death, flower, life,



JIMMY
"WOW; What a task!", I had replied unto mine Master.

He had bid me; "Name Me one good n' pure, of recent human alabaster!"

I searched to...

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Categories: angel, blessing, celebration, character,

SHANTA
Shãnta

On th' night that I saw her...
Darkness had been shunned into day
She turn'd 'round eyes bright enlighten'd...
"Oh, my gosh...Randall, you're here! I can hardly believe...

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Categories: beautiful, beauty, care, dance,

The Earth - A silent Elegy
It is the Earth.
A living piece of clay, sculpted from stars and darkness,
A cosmic wound, silent yet full of echoes.
On its body, rivers carve maps...

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Categories: elegy, space,

Premium Member Dear Levester, Post-Humorous Letter

Dear Levester.

On last night, while in bed before falling asleep,
my mind became filled with thoughts of you, and
My eyes were filled with tears. The thoughts...

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Categories: death of a friend,



Soul Storm
Do not listen for me in wind whispers

Or echoes down the lane,

My spirit would never settle

For such quiet and mundane.

 

I won't be found in...

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Categories: bereavement, death, eulogy, meaningful,

Premium Member Bourbon Street
My beloved late husband and I
once strolled down Bourbon Street,
on a mild winter's afternoon.
The musicians enchanted the
atmosphere,
as sparrows lent their own songs.
We dined on gumbo...

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Categories: 3rd grade, 7th grade,

Elegy For Kasiita
On a cold, dark night, I stand alone
In the graveyard, where shadows are thrown
Deeply mourning, I weep at the mention
Of your name, dear Kasiita, my...

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Categories: death, family, heartbroken, loss,

STAMPEDE
STAMPEDE

Beneath the moon’s pale, a requited glow,
A hyperbolic crowd begins to grow.
The sphere is aired with fear and haste,
A storm of bodies, my qualms displaced.

A...

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Categories: allusion, anxiety, bereavement, child

Premium Member MOURNERS SURPASSES-
Laid still mourners pass, surpasses
Time moves let subs pendant closed passes
Subjoin the beauty instilled blurred by glasses
To be resurrected renewed in the ever lasted

12/16/24
Written words...

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Categories: analogy, anxiety, bereavement, celebration,

Erinna Distaff Translation
ERINNA

Erinna is widely regarded, at least by those who have read her, as second only to Sappho among the ancient Greek female poets. Little is...

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Categories: elegy, child, childhood, death, death

Cadaver Elegy
They handed me the scalpel like a crown- 
Queenship of the pail and prostrate.
I ascended my throne of sterile steel,
The body laid bare, my unwilling...

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Categories: elegy, age, anxiety, death, education,

The Velvet Life
Oh, my love, your intoxicating eyes,
Like lotus flowers, your lips, a treasure to the skies.
Your waist, a velvet lotus, your voice, a cuckoo's call,
Leaves me...

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Categories: break up, death, fantasy,

no one said not to
.

            i never left the place
        ...

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Categories: death of a friend,

Premium Member The Old Beggar Woman
Her struggling gait and wrinkled face 
Reflected grief for her dead mate.
She’d lost her family at great cost 
Before she entered society’s lost.
I passed her...

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Categories: culture, death, perspective,


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