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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.


Shortly after i was forgotten
When the dirt covers your body
you will truly remember all that you loved
all that you hated, it will grow through
your thighs, between your armpits
between your...

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Categories: america, appreciation, death, devotion,



Toxic Beauty
 ART!

He painted my death,
With such dedication I've never seen before.
Every stroke of his brush, on that paper, marking out each curve, twist, and turn...

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© Favour Oko  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: art, betrayal, dark, murder,

When I Depart, Remember Me Softly
I did not come to win the world—
I came to feel it bleed.
To taste the silence in the hungry mouth,
To weep where no one dared...

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Categories: absence, death, death of

The Transformation of Attar
In Nishapur's dust and blazing heat,
A physician walked the wealthy street—
Young hands skilled in healing's art,
Rich purse, restless, yearning heart
That craved what gold could never...

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Categories: spiritual,

Premium Member Now And Then
When my body is sculpted to perfection,  
When my beauty gleams without a flaw,  
You may whisper that I’m artificial—  
But I...

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Categories: appreciation, betrayal, character, confidence,



Premium Member Give me one last night of silence in the cosmic temple of ancient memory
Give me one last night of silence in the cosmic temple of ancient memory,
Where shadows dance with light in circles of fire and hidden divine...

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

A funeral for myself
It was a funeral for myself 
And I still haven't buried her yet
The sky opened up and released its anger 
Rained down in grief and...

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Categories: death, discrimination, funeral, prejudice,

The War on Russia
This war was not born in the fields of Ukraine,
But in boardrooms, treaties, and promises betrayed.
In 1990, beneath quiet lamps and whispered words,
The West told...

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Categories: betrayal, conflict, war,

The survival and demonisation being black
Acceptance equals survival 
Survival equals safety
Comfort equals invisibility 
And invisibility is vital 
For us to live a somewhat peaceful life
'Somewhat' because they even kill us...

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Categories: discrimination, evil, prejudice, race,

IN THE LAND OF PEACE
Once upon a time
in a faraway land
There was an old man, who had forgotten how to speak
His eyes would stare into the sky, void of...

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Categories: abuse, corruption, death, dedication,

Justice ,denied
With bloody hands, rusty hair and a dammed soul
I walked out ,stepping on the rotten meat 
As my lungs struggled to breathe down the fragrance...

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Categories: abuse, bereavement, betrayal, dark,

On Returning Leftover Peppermint to My Neighbor
Digestion liquesces peppermint. I chew
the leaves for both of us, an aftertaste

when stillness is an afterthought.
Dust gleams like the raised plastic on a debit card.

Winds...

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Categories: bereavement, community, confusion, death

Be My Death
be my death and wear my bones
be a ghost in my life and
come to haunt me every night
i'll sit at the cemetery
or you can sit...

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Categories: love,

Scorpio Rising
She lost her keys.
Vanessa was frantic, pacing,
but I closed my eyes—
and saw.

"They’re in the garden, beneath the jasmine,"
I said.
She blinked.
“How did you know?”

I said nothing.

But...

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Categories: dark, death, deep, feelings,

Velvet Death
slit my throat with a sword
speak in a language only we know
look into my eyes with that daring gaze
that knows the secret you once spoke

"i...

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Categories: love,


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