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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 mercy
He 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 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,

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,

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 After Thoughts
Legacies 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,

Premium Member The Cold Embrace of Death
Heinous 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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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: angst, death, fear,

I Am Poetry Contest
The 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 forgotten
Consider 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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© Tapan Nath  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: betrayal, corruption, extended metaphor,

Elegy of Divine Cross

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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 Shooting
Prologue:
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 Graveyard
Tears 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,

Premium Member For The Lady I Never Knew
I 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 Survivors
Forever 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 night
It'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,


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