Death Memory Poems
These Death Memory poems are examples of Memory poems about Death. These are the best examples of Memory Death poems written by international poets.
Tea“Tea”
Steam pouring forward, perhaps captured with the cold air of time
To be forgotten and lost
Blown away too quick to be tangible
Gentle momentum but me
Not so
Not...
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memory, death, depression, gothic, imagery,
when doves cryit'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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animal, death, family, memory,
unnamed
ghostly gray petals—
a shadow crossing the grass
I stepped on a name
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A minimalist reflection on mourning and the erosion of identity, set in the asphodel fields...
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memory, death, identity, life, loss,
Letter To The Fallen"Memories buried in the wavering wash of time."
I write you now with trembling hand,
The ink runs like the river sand,
Where once we laughed, side by...
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memory, 12th grade, death, death
Trip to the CemeteryAs I remember, I was about six years old
the day Aunt Edie babysat.
Why weren't any of my brothers home?
Was Mom stressed with me? Maybe that.
We...
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memory, bereavement, childhood, death, grief,
Whispers Beneath the CemeteryWhispers Beneath the Cemetery
Is love undead?
Is love fate?
Is love just holding on—
a ghost that won’t abate?
Does death mean I must give up on us,
let go...
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memory, cheer up,
In Memory OfSo many friends came to say goodbye
Remember the good times, not going to cry
You were such a part of everyone you knew
A special someone for...
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memory, bereavement, death of a
IncarnationHaving been so long untouched,
I’d become a child beyond touch
and unclean.
So, when suffocatingly
roused from a nightmare of death
to unbreathable silence
in an oxygen tent, I cried
afraid...
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memory, 2nd grade, childhood, cry,
IF I KNEWIF I KNEW
IF I KNEW TODAY WOULD BE MY LAST DAY,
I WOULD…..
LAUGH HARD AT ALL THE THINGS I ALWAYS WANTED TO
SMILE AT EVERYONE I SEE
TELL...
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memory, courage, death, deep, desire,
A Memory We All BecomeLife has nothing to do with every chapter
The book pages you scan and read
The waves on the shore that breaks
You both see them and witness
It's...
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death, life, meaningful, memory,
I Long ForI long for a time
When skinned knees were
my biggest problem
When my most debilitating fear
was an imaginary monster under my bed
I long for a time when...
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Categories:
memory, age, change, childhood, growing
Divorced
Piercing the heart,
yet, no bloodshed,
killing just the same,
words.
Eyes fixed, frozen like death,
discordant silence,
reluctant surrender,
forlorn, aching expectancy.
Imploring, why?
Succumbing, melancholy anguish.
Deceived.
Defeated.
Divorced.
Divorced, and thus—
the walls remain, yet bear...
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Categories:
memory, absence, angst, betrayal, divorce,
A Memory Haikuembraced by a ghost
scent of hair I recognize
like time never passed...
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memory, death, love, missing,
Spring
While springtime presses in on my thoughts,
forcing me to believe that even the stillness
the clingy silence who drenches my spirit
in rhythms of non-regret, rhythms of...
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Categories:
appreciation, blessing, god, memory,
Shots at a FuneralWhen I was a baby, I cried at the sight of life
When I was child I slept to protest life
When I was a teenager...
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memory, angst, anxiety, death, depression,