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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.


In One City
I know a funeral when I walk into one
I can tell between a funeral and a burial
They are two entirely different artworks
One is done on...

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Categories: community, death, farewell, funeral,



Never say that she is dead
We will not say that she is dead.
We have never said that she is dead. 
We will never say that she is dead. 

We’ll say...

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Categories: death, funeral, goodbye, grandparents,

Cold, Cold Ground
The cold, so cold ground
Binding and pulling
And holding me down

Embraced by the crypt
Confined and restrained
And life’s breath stripped

Stygian inked
Such stifling dark
And soul’s light extinct

I find...

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Categories: dark, death, gothic, grave,

Premium Member Abrupt Silence
Here one day gone the next
I did not know you very well 
You were always nice to me 
Commonalities in passing

Sudden sadness in the clouds
The...

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Categories: death,

Premium Member Laika
They called it a seat,
but it was a cradle of fire—
metal-wrapped, bolted shut,
no window,
just the hum of wires
and the memory of old Moscow snow
still clinging...

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Categories: elegy, animal, betrayal, death, dog,



A Garden of Memory
The morning comes with brittle cold,
Where once her garden used to grow.
My mother's hands lie cold and still—
The earth holds secrets she will never tell.

She...

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Categories: elegy, mother,

An Elegy for the Dawn's Betrayal
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A morning cloaked in guile arrives,
It breathes upon my land, no light,
This realm now bound in frost's cold curse,
Where hearts are held in icy...

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Categories: elegy, political,

Who Am I Now
I was your mom before i was anything else,
My name, before my plans,
Before the life i thought i’d have—
I was yours.

Now the world keeps turning,
But...

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Categories: change, child, death, grief,

The Ghost Inside My Chest
I am the ghost inside my chest, 
Unseen, unheard, yet never at rest. 
I drift through halls of memory, 
Where joy once lived but fled...

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Categories: death, depression, gothic, grief,

Letter To The Fallen
"Memories buried in the wavering wash of time."

I write you now with trembling hand,
The ink runs like the river sand,
Where once we laughed, side by...

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Categories: 12th grade, death, death

Elegy for Tobi Dike
A life that's fading is a flame that's burning out,
I, a mortal, lament the departed soul.
Tobi Dike, your light extinguished—halfway unburned,
leaving us in darkness
—with only...

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Categories: elegy, death,

Premium Member Almost Engaged
Youthful Israeli embassy couple,
almost engaged,
gunshots fired in the May DC eve,
murdered sweethearts,
hate, it never pauses,
almost had hope,
shalom to the world. ~...

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Categories: 7th grade, 8th grade,

SWALLOWED BY PAIN
I have long been swallowed by pain.
My face has been sinking in tears pouring like rain.
My walls hear more cries more than anyone 
My pillow...

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Categories: death,

Premium Member Death Entwined in Living Vines
Something dreadful is reflected in this scene
Could be she's seen death in a horrid dream, or
perhaps a relapse of an affliction or addiction
has left her...

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Categories: betrayal, dark, death,

When Grief Turns To Grave
No one told me the moment you parted.
My disheartened heart left the room the moment I turned the corner,
and saw his golden badge as he...

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Categories: death, grave, grief,


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