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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.


Armourless Hearts
Verse 1- Lets take the hearts from our armor and lift off the chains, well dance with the relics and drink cheap champagne, let the...

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Categories: adventure,



Occupy the Sky
I've always watched you soar, 
It was the landing that caught my attention.
Knowing that the sky has always seduced your spirit
in search of its border,
it...

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© Gift Slave  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: death, metaphor,

Premium Member A Fly Taught Me to Fly
It came like a whisper
on wings too dirty for angels,
a fly with no gospel—
just bloodlust and fire.
I don’t remember the bite—
only the stories they told...

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Categories: baby, imagery, psychological, sick,

Premium Member when doves cry
it's usually early 
as day starts turning 
over 
when the air around is as heavy as 
seas
in your chest 
feelings are intermixed
between despair 
and hope

like...

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Categories: animal, death, family, memory,

Premium Member Revenge
Never wish death upon your enemy,
wish that they beg for death.
Drink from silver cups of silence,
haunted by ghosts of breath.
Let their triumphs rot in shadow,
gold...

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Categories: free verse, dark, magic,



The Pope’s Forbidden Tunnel
The Vatican hides many books, but some stories bleed through stone.



He was Pope Fourteen, God's chosen hand,
A shepherd cloaked in crimson and command.
But beneath the...

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Categories: corruption,

A Nurse Dies in a Far Away Land
The leather tethers kept loosening.
I had to pull at them until
they dug into your body
binding you to a rocking cross.

It was all for nothing
you died...

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Categories: poetry,

Carol
Upon the eve of dying
she could not speak.
And all her opened tear ducts
Sprang awake
And flooded forth from
The founts of creation
A new sea.

Oh, yes!
She cried a...

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Categories: death of a friend,

Premium Member Hyvasti
Butting heads, locking horns
the difficult child of three
if anyone was causing grief
It was always going to be me,
a stubborn chip 
from a stubborn old block...

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Categories: cancer, death, father daughter,

Premium Member Cemetery

“The cold stones of cemetery inscribe
in emptiness the petrified story long forgotten” 
– By Poet     


The grey sky was gloomy
as that...

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Categories: death,

Premium Member M The Resurrection and Life Everlasting
By the “resurrection of the body” is meant that at the end of the world

And the bodies of all men will rise from the earth

And...

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Categories: christian, community, devotion, god,

Her little light
The colours of the world have faded
My life, I would of traded
She was taken to soon
Her time on Earth a fleeting tune
Only three brief years...

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Categories: absence, death, faith, grief,

I Am Not Immortal Any More
I used to think I was made of saltwater and wire,
the bones humming with the permanence
of myth.
I stood naked in the mirror—
a girl with the...

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Categories: 12th grade,

Premium Member Tombstones in the Cemetery

Human life is striving for joy while saturated with busy
bits of an emotional seesaw, its movements leave traces
in so many places, our goal seems pre-disabled....

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Categories: color, creation, death, deep,

Premium Member Is life truly an art or just a messy canvas I never asked to touch
Is life truly an art or just a messy canvas I never asked to touch,
and death the same, a final brushstroke or just a fear...

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


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