Death Imagism Poems
These Death Imagism poems are examples of Imagism poems about Death. These are the best examples of Imagism Death poems written by international poets.
The Agony
in the
ineluctable
grasp
of an
eye's
blink
the years
of praying
lonely
terrifying
vulnerable
oh,
the agony --
the verdict
life or
death
the
pendulum
swings
...
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Categories:
anxiety, death, judgement, life,
Babyliss in AcidYou are a hole in my head —
when I look inside, I see a dentist's drill
grinding sweetly against my hippocampus
and it must have hit...
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Categories:
addiction, death, imagery, pain,
Decaying Red Roses
I slowly open the old, rusty cemetery gate that groans,
it squeaks and creaks in the still night,
...
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Categories:
death, poetry, writing,
Carry Me BackHer feathers shaking in the wind.
Air moves over them as they tickle my skin.
I look down at the world below.
As we soar into the unknown.
As...
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Categories:
death, hope, imagery, imagination,
Winter drops hints
winter drops
hints
in the pre-dawn
hours
slick surfaces
frost-covered
windshields
last night's
drunks
frozen stiff
carted off
to the morgue...
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Categories:
death, drink, winter,
My LifeMy life is made up of many things,
Dreams and hopes in my church hymnal.
Lyrics limping along in simple songs,
Coming out from being a...
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Categories:
dark, emotions, life, sad,
That long nightThat long night:
There I stood in a dusk
Wandering like a vagabond,
Finding ways to escape,
Surrounding so numb,
I fumbled.
Time fleeting fast,
I could smell the breeze,
As it kissed...
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Categories:
allusion, anxiety, death, destiny,
I entered the interdicted landI entered the interdicted land
Where she lived
I heard the murmur of the silence
And she had had those with endearment
Since those Days
I could not apart...
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Categories:
allegory, deep, dream, emotions,
Imagine Pain: Matthew 7vs12I used to be a poet…
A god among man became I
Until one day I met a maiden fair.
She was as lovely as a dream...
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Categories:
emotions, feelings, heartbreak, sad
When death dances dispocalypsisFrom the abyss of liberty, a seal was retrieved
A forgery of the fourth, a disorientated equus
A new order thus hatched
From the east of west,...
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Categories:
confusion, creation, humanity, society,
Out of SightWhere your face was reflected lovely
You are sand, wind, sun, and burning sky
My heart beside should I forget
You are thirst and thirst is all I...
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Categories:
memory,
It Was My WishI slowly open the old, rusty cemetery gate that groans,
it squeaks and creaks in the still night,
...
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Categories:
dark,
56 years of exileIt looks so sweet,a pity it wasn't sung
Is there hope for what future may hold?
For faces I had thought we're gay
I saw were lined with...
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Categories:
abuse, africa, anger, betrayal,
Man You are not in chargeWe pride ourselves in rented existence,
gloating in the realm of time,
science and civilization sought the throne,
we explored the cosmos with ...
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Categories:
atheist, confusion, creation, god,
When my Mother was aliveWhen my Mother was alive,
The mail always got through,
Recipients were seldom under the weather,
And replies were automatic, not automated.
There is a folder in which we...
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Categories:
age, analogy, care, city,