Get Your Premium Membership

Death Epitaph Poems

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


Epitaph
I saw epitaph
Engrave says, "He died of love".
Pinch my heart to laugh.
...

Read More
Categories: epitaph, death, funny love, memorial,



Uninvited hades
infant sucked up in red waters
old buried in the red pools
it's a pity 
on a black day
dies Mr pity 
on a pity day
in a pity...

Read More
Categories: absence, age, allusion, angel,

The Dead Won't Let Me Sleep
Dreams of tropical beaches
The dead won't let me sleep
Money got me always on my feet
A certain gift a contempt behind closed doors
The sweetness of life...

Read More
Categories: death, dream,

Premium Member Epitaph for a Country
     JFK, he was shot dead
     sixty years ago today

       ...

Read More
Categories: epitaph, america, death, history, lost,

The Lion doesn't sleep tonight
The Lion doesn't sleep tonight

What will you turn out to be 
There is always that monster in your dream
It knows you more than you know
It's...

Read More
Categories: death, dream, fate, nature,



Premium Member Gentle Jim
Here lies little Bill –
He took such a bad spill…
It happened at his still,
Making liquor was his thrill

Here lies gentle Jim –
His heart was never...

Read More
Categories: crazy, death, funeral, funny,

Premium Member An Epitaph
He read books
			      and wrote some too
			    and taught some folks
			      ...

Read More
© Bill Keen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: death, food, imagery, seasons,

My Epitaph Writ Large
My epitaph writ large...
courtesy third person singular.

Mise en scène pour décès
pardon his feeble attempt at French,
a unilingual English language
quibbling, and scribbling mensch
strongly advises applying
left handed...

Read More
Categories: epitaph, absence, adventure, bereavement, blessing,

Drumming the Way
Trying to find
The happiness of 
Trying to find
The way
They kept him on life support
I sat outside and would not move
He had suffered greatly from his...

Read More
Categories: black african american, death

Each An Epitaph
I want to run from the grief,
from the crippling and the tears.
But that dread is a secret thief -
out to steal away the memories, the...

Read More
Categories: epitaph, death, death of a

Epitaph and Tomb
A tradition beyond the grave, leading the dead and dying to sporadically engrave 
upon themselves an epitaph, in hopes of discovering their forgotten path. 

And...

Read More
Categories: epitaph, angst, birth, confusion, cry,

Epitaphs
Evening shades are deepening
Peaceful hues and tones
In the darkness creeping
There’s a silence in the stones
Anonymous lies sleeping
Psalms praising the unknown
Heaven holds thee in its keeping
Sings...

Read More
Categories: epitaph, death, eulogy, grave,

Premium Member Epitaph For a Fair-Haired-Lad
Here lies a fair-haired-lad
    who ran like the wind
  Loved both his parents
    never once sinned

  Made...

Read More
Categories: death, hair, love,

The Mountains of the Dead
The Mountains of the Dead                    ...

Read More
© Alan Peat  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: epitaph, discrimination, history, holocaust, memorial

Jeff Beck Blues
One thing about the sixties time
Was the music was just fine
Listen to it now
The Electric guitars were just wow

Look for the music played
By Jeff Beck...

Read More
Categories: death, music,


Book: Shattered Sighs