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Death Englyn Poems

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

Seth of Holy Breath

Born of man and holy breath 
Heaven’s angel who stops death
Father of the race of Seth...

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Categories: bible, birth, father, heaven,

Legends of Twenty-Seven

Jimi's groovy guitar leaps
Psychedelic anthem beats
Certainly a broader reach
Than what banal mainstreams seek

Janis sang in passion rough
Too much for the upper crust
Voice of insistence and...

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Categories: celebrity, death, music, remember,

Raven's Bones

Waterlilies brighten black
ripples, reeds, and rocks below.
An even flow, bane and blight
recedes to bare raven’s bones.

A grave of darkness blanches
In austere light on bloodless
banks, but...

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Categories: beauty, death, nature, raven,

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SIX AND SO SICK

into the eternal. far from the real
saddened by six bells which no longer peel
six clappers stand now, stilled and so quiet
death took...

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Categories: angst,

Y Ddraig Goch -The Red Dragon

Cherish her land, lovely boy!
Never let them come destroy!
Show the Welsh pride, lovely boy!
Sing aloud your heart and joy!

I met a Bard of ancient time
who...

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Categories: fantasy, history, me, heart,

Someone's Son

Someone’s Son

Someone’s son buried alive.
Fighting wars evils contrive.
Mother’s joys cannot survive.

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
January 26, 2010

Poetic form:  Englyn
Poetic Form: Englyn Milwr (The Soldier’s Englyn)...

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Categories: death, sad, war

Fearless Soldiers

Fearless Soldiers

Blood and guts fly all around.
Everywhere death screams its sound.
Fearless soldiers still abound.


© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
January 26, 2010

Poetic form:  Englyn
Poetic Form: Englyn Milwr...

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Categories: war

A Father's Grace (Englyn)

Do not go gentle into that good night.
Death is not a true win
unless He's taken your sin
and then true life can begin.


(Dylan Thomas' Do Not...

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Categories: englyn, death, faith, introspection, life

The Irony Within a Song (Englyn Form)

I can still hear the song of the spring breeze...
About a love went wrong
When two hearts hid for so long...
Now I hear the requiem's gong...

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Categories: englyn, death, loss, lost love,