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Life Death Poems - Poems about Life Death

Premium Member Summer Passing
Impossible beauty, summer in swell, Fragrance aflowing and fluttering around; Though now, I admit, I don’t see it well, I know – my ears! – all the birds by their sound. Heaven surrounds me, but only for now; Howling the winds that shall crash on my head; Ripping the flowers that live on the bough, Never see summer return in its stead. Perhaps...

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Categories: life death, age, beauty, death, howl,
Form: Sonnet
Death For a While
I died for a while Withdrawing myself from the routines of life Getting into a silent shell and observing The world around me The people around me The people who are the world around me All happy and content with my absence The vacuum that I perceived would be created In my absence Was created within me The hollowness was evident The invisible strings detached As...

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Categories: life death, life,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member If I Should Die
If I should die quite suddenly Don't grieve, my dear. Don't cry for me I've waited, oh, so fervently From bonds of life to be set free This world is not how it should be Today the Lord has heard my plea Don't mourn for me I've been set free Don't stand too long around my grave For death is friend and not a...

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Categories: life death, death, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Friend Is the Ocean
My friend is the ocean, waters that glide, Rustling my footsteps and tousling my hair; Many the times that we walked side by side, A spark and forever, joined as a pair. Always a cloud there lay over its play, Dappled the sunlight that fell on my face; Heaving, its waters had something to say; Twilight with meteors it took for the...

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Categories: life death, abuse, allegory, friendship, innocence,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Bell Tower That Leaned In
I. The Pastor’s Hand At dawn’s brittle cusp— he climbs, each step a nail in time’s coffin breath ragged a Psalm torn mid-hymn. The rope tastes of incense and myrrh— Liberty’s fracture braided through its fibers a wound that never quite...

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Categories: life death, allegory, bereavement, devotion, imagery,
Form: Dramatic Verse



No life, No death
Oh death The fear of countless souls I adore your kiss I need you close When will we meet? When shall you come? It's too long a wait Please come tonight I don't know you I know life is a tsunami Perhaps you can rescue me Where shall we meet? Oh life The lover of the lifeless I've honored your presence I gave you my all Why...

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Categories: life death, confusion, grief, hyperbole, imagery,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Life, death and everything In between
Years of growth, years of wonder. Years of thought, years of plunder. Years of dreaming, years of hopes. Years of late nights, years of beers. Years of baggage, years of stress. Years of commitments, years of doubts. Years of love, years of responsibilities. Years of pressure, years of strain. Years of mortgage, years of pain. Years of fatigue, years of wine. Years of laughter, years...

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Categories: life death, age, birth, death, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member After The Psalm of Life
After The Psalm of Life, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow One need not continue seeking, For that elusive, immortal dream. Our bodies aging, joints creaking, Yet we each have, before unseen... A body that's made of spirit, That breaks forth when this flesh dies! And the grave, we need not fear it; Yes, death will come...

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Categories: life death, courage, hope, inspiration,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member It Is Possible To Know
It's possible to know from whence I came There is no need to even have a name I am a part of eternal creation Reunification is my destination Born of the same energy of all creation I seek form to experience the relation Between the parts that make up the whole Unveiling the purpose of my soul Life in any form any time...

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Categories: life death, bird, creation, death, introspection,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Universal Questions
I stand here gazing at stars in the sky, Wondering what happens when I die? It’s harder to see with my own eye, The purpose of life as it passes by. First, I’ll consider the where, when, and why? Who or what it was, that caused my goodbye? What was important, whether girl or guy? A purposeful life, or is that a...

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Categories: life death, death, imagination, introspection, life,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Bride of the Sea
Ships sink to bottom in billowing sea; "It's in that number," apparent to some; Walking the coast, "I'm no widow," said she; Either await or admit it won't come. How many years did she wait for that ship? Youthful and vibrant to aged and gray; How many courses of life she let slip, Married to breakers that crash on the quay. Surely, we...

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Categories: life death, death, hope, life, lost,
Form: Sonnet
if time can echo
'What does the ticking of a melting clock sound like?'—overheard in Dalí _______________________ A clock made from ice lies on sun-scolded tiles— the ticks go slower, steadier, ...

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Categories: life death, art, death, identity, life,
Form: Free verse
Stranger
My end begins aimless Nothing led by my steps But my death led to greatness So it was foretold. . . honor Among my strangers The graves dug around me grew numerous Like flies to a corpse, rotten and forgotten above My stone is headed but by one line, “Honor was his path for he Was washed in the grace of God.” Among the aimless,...

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Categories: life death, death, lost,
Form: Free verse
God Took You Home
You never said "I'm leaving" You never said "good-bye" You were gone before we knew it And only God knows why In life I loved you dearly In death I love you still In my heart I hold a place That only you can fill It broke my heart to lose you But you didn't go alone A part of me went with you The day...

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Categories: life death, cancer, christian, courage, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Leaf
Red leaf with the stars, falling. Maroon dusk crawling. Twirling last dance! Prettier, livelier than ever before. ...

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Categories: life death, autumn, beautiful, color, dance,
Form: Verse

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