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.
Children of Babylon—A Poem for the Reckoning
You rulers of cold castles,
With pens that write in blood—
You sail on seas of sorrow,
Feeding empires with the mud
Of broken nations,...
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Categories:
fate,
Jaun Elia English Translations IIThese are English translations of Urdu poems by Jaun Elia with themes of solitude, loneliness, alienation, love, life, death and loss.
When you come, you will...
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Categories:
dream, life, loneliness, loss,
The Grief I Feel is of Another KindThe grief I feel is of another kind
Sweeter than holy water
A deeper breath than moorland air to find
The black of midnight, not—
Of monstrous seas, but—
Of...
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Categories:
death of a friend,
God's Philosphy
Hope and revelation is within
You can see it around thou, You can feel it within thyself
The pearly gates open withn thou, Thou understands and knows...
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Categories:
8th grade, 9th grade,
Row by Row the Nettles GrowRow by row the nettles grow
And circles do surround
Hairy stems the prison wires
And jagged leaves their barbs.
Cry out, forsaken sinner
Your voice shall not be...
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Categories:
christian, death, death of
Depression recycledEmpty work resists an empty home
Too much to bear without clinking bottles
Swaying in a plastic bag like seasick genies
Empty life finding harbor in emptiness
Even...
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Categories:
addiction, death, depression, sensual,
A FAITH-BASED PERSPECTIVE OF WAR AND ITS DESTINYA FAITH-BASED PERSPECTIVE
OF WAR AND ITS DESTINY
Murder is a crime
Unless it’s in war;
Then it’s all legal:
A death penalty
For the innocent:-
Our reality,
Is not of heaven;
Wars...
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Categories:
allegory, extended metaphor, hope,
HONOR OF THE FALLEN SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF THE SOILWeep Africa, weep on.
The battle with death is one we dare not to fight,
For the call from the great beyond is outside the scope of...
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Categories:
africa, appreciation, bereavement, black
Our life a horror movie they played to us in real lifeOur life a horror movie they played to us in real life
In horror films black people die first
We always make smart decisions
And yet they...
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Categories:
death, discrimination, horror, prejudice,
The art of letting goShe wouldn't let the guilt warp her mind into believing its perception of her
She knew who she was
And she was is a girl who's been...
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Categories:
depression, discrimination, mental health,
Thoughts On War QuestionsThoughts On War Questions
When is war righteous?
Isn’t murder a crime?
Does not war murder?
Can’t collateral
Death be a crime too?:
War can’t be righteous;
Murder is a crime:-
Wars...
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Categories:
allegory, introspection, murder, perspective,
The wavesChildren climbing up
Aged tree falling down
Waves in the sea
They stretch their hands up
I'll catch the rainbow
Leaving the water
Lifting hearts to the...
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Categories:
imagery, sea,
Playing Chicken
no blink, no bluff—
just rust-bitten bikes
on a gravel road,
grip slipping, brakes optional.
it's called honing your craft,
we didn’t dodge.
we needed the crash—
proof we meant it,
authentication we...
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Categories:
betrayal, death of a
Bones Remain AliveLoitering around at the expense
of my parents back,
I too wish to be at the resemblance
of hardworking thumbs,
those same fingers that sewed
the...
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Categories:
death, family, farm, growing
PEARLY GATES HORSE AND CARRIAGE JOURNEYAmazing Grace how sweet the sound
Harmony of Heaven
Spiritual tact
A Soul rose and soared far beyond the eyes to see
Beyond loving hearts
Pearly Gates a wait
Accompanied by...
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Categories:
care, character, creation, death,