Life Elegy Poems
These Life Elegy poems are examples of Elegy poems about Life. These are the best examples of Elegy Life poems written by international poets.
Man of mercyHe was a man who knew how to knock out another man.
Against amateurs, there was just no match for him.
4 years of tough man competitions,...
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Categories:
eulogy, sports,
Who Am I NowI 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,
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 DikeA 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,
After ThoughtsLegacies of the now and the after
Blossoms and glooms in a cycle
A breech of sadness and laughter
Thoughts of the past in the present
The after...
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Categories:
desire, future, life, voyage,
The Cold Embrace of DeathHeinous are the horrors in the rages of war
after it makes its purchase of pawns.
Brave are those following orders with a salute.
Some will never...
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Categories:
angst, death, fear,
I Am Poetry ContestThe day they kidnapped you
Was the day I found myself lost.
I found myself mostly numb
In a frosted layer of my own tears --
My eyes now...
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Categories:
emotions, faith, grief, jesus,
A legacy forgottenConsider my grave your resting place too,
An empathetic soul who rests here.
Worry not poet, it haunts no more,
Covered with maggots, I've rotted here for a...
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Categories:
betrayal, corruption, extended metaphor,
Elegy of Divine Cross
I
The bell the Town Courier want to toll
To salute the day of reckoning in Getham City
Is now on the neck of the scary-witty cat her...
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Categories:
elegy, christian, devotion, life, symbolism,
An Elegy About a School ShootingPrologue:
A new kid joins an already troubled elementary school
He sits alone on the first day, and no one dares to sit next to him
For if...
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Categories:
cry, dark, death, deep,
At The GraveyardTears of fears drip from all that gather
A mystery lyes ahead as the coffin lowers
Sleep smiles on show to see
Some can’t hind...
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Categories:
bereavement, dark, death, farewell,
For The Lady I Never KnewI shed tears today for a lady I never knew
For so long my emotions faced exemption
My life, created in lieu of a tragic encounter, grew
At...
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Categories:
death, in memoriam,
The SurvivorsForever gone, forever we understand
The pain lingers on, stronger beyond
The thud of agony and the memory
Captures the groans of a desperate cry
Laid in a little...
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Categories:
anger, bereavement, death, emotions,
The etheral nightIt's darkness of the etheral night,
But still the lantern light.
I somber in my beloved's laps,
Who no longer "smells like life".
...
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Categories:
10th grade, death, deep,
Release
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,