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Death Free Verse Poems

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


Art Is Death
A nine - to - five 
bartending job - 
the life, death, 
and fate of an 
artist. 

Forced 
to sweep 
cracked tile, 
and vacuum 
puke...

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Categories: abuse, addiction, drink, drug,



The Boy With The Cardboard Heart
When you have nobody 
you have somebody and 
that somebody is 
yourself. 

Because you’re 
all you’ve got. 

So why need 
anybody? 

Anybody being nobody. 
Nobody...

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Categories: abuse, anger, angst, anxiety,

Last Words
What did the wind feel like--
Blowing against your back
Riddled with whispers
You heard or imagined or both?
Was it cold,
The ground?
Did it scrape your knees
on the way...

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© Zoe Johns  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: addiction, death, death of

Premium Member TITLE MANIA
Thrust in the centre of the storm
Light and shadows tease
Mulberry trees and butterflies

Reflections of the past
Visions of the future
Prisoners of Poetry

Seven beautiful lines
Swimming in grief’s...

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Categories: fun, poetry, writing,

Premium Member The Dance of Death
I stand on leaves, dead
My toes entwine skeletal remains
of shells, bones, limbs and all stuff, dead.
I sleep on cotton sewn from cotton buds, dead.
My bed...

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Categories: dance, death,



The Equality of Death
no crown endures, no throne remains,
Death levels all, in silent chains.
Immortal dreams, mortal frail,
In shadow's grasp, all faces pale.

A king may rule with gilded might,
Yet...

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© kjeld vk  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: death, humanity, life,

Dead bird
Cold night engulfs an injured bird

Wings caging it from

The naked reality

It seeks warmth

In a frosted golden cage

Of escaping hope......

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© I Bite   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: animal, bird, death, deep,

Why you should Never be Yourself
I cover my face in bandages
I paint curves over my stiches
They appear to be smiling to everyone
Who stops, to observe me
like a burned down Building,
bombs...

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© I Bite   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: crazy, dark, death,

Premium Member There is Madness inside Each Poet
There is a madness inside each poet
Some try to cover it up with religious squabble and chatter
We who know laugh at their silliness

There cannot be...

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Categories: poets,

Premium Member taxes '25
(It’s that vernal, infernal, tax season. How about a tax avoidance vignette? It’s poetic—in it’s own way)

Some students at a table near us in the...

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Categories: green, growing up, money,

Premium Member Life and Death
It was to be expected at some point
but when death comes it is still a shock
we wish that person could live forever
that we do not...

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Categories: death,

Premium Member Under the veil of night, death is just a drawn curtain
Under the veil of night, death is just a drawn curtain,
a dance of shadows that silently glides on walls,
we do not collapse all at once,...

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© Dan Enache  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fantasy,

Premium Member The Stings Of Death
         ~ The sting of death will always bring pain ~ grieve in peace ~ 
 ...

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Categories: death, emotions, grief,

Some things shatter, some things bloom
Crushed.
Dust chokes the air
And encircles the vicinity

Burnt.
Charred and battered.
A blackened stump,
The remains of what once was alive.

Hacked to pieces.
Still, lifeless—
Left to die

Will you still bloom?
Will...

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Categories: abuse, appreciation, betrayal, dark,

Our Lives
Our Lives


  My tears hidden by the falling rain, washed away like the river joins the sea. The dark covers the upside down frown...

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Categories: bereavement, best friend, cry,


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