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.


She don't blink

my block got bones
made of brick and breath.
she bleed through cracked hydrants,
catch cigarette ash like snowflakes,
and see like a fly to death.
her ribs? fire escapes-
bent,
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Categories: city, imagery, memory, urban,


Premium Member The Dangers of Mankind is Man

Mara’s hair colour touched by time, her voice hedged—struggling to find its way to me
She had once tried to kill herself.
My flippant thought: Did you
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Categories: memory, grandmother, grief, holocaust, irony,

Behind the Sun

The faces of the tom-toms were sallow,
So was the face of the sun, dark-visaged,
Red, and starved through a pogrom
That assaulted the peace of the beasts.

Darkness
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Categories: death, grief, memory,

Brevity

though long loftier are visited much 
like space empty needed seeing some stars
your wisdom scales twice thrice at least as such
brings peace ends bloody loud
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Categories: memory, absence, bereavement, cancer, death,

Premium Member Fascicles Untitled

The Printers clipped her Dash—
And caged her Breath in Chains—

Yet Time—
 its Lantern flickering—
Restores what none can name—

They pressed her Thunder flat—
But Silence wove the
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Categories: memory, literature, metaphor, poetess, poetry,


His pawprints linger

As a young kid back in the hood,
It was just me and a pet friend~
He was the joy of my childhood~
His remembrance would never end.

I
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Categories: memory, animal, best friend, dog,

Premium Member A Eulogy in Memory of My Dead Love

A Eulogy in Memory of My Dead Love

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen! My Loved Brothers and Sisters! Respected Believers!
This day, this Saturday, is very sad in
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Categories: memory, death, fate, life, love,

Red Romance


Immortal shadow
That will not show how
It will be erased
I crush and persuade
Myself around here
Having you my dear



















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Categories: memory, adventure, allegory, allusion, anger,

Young Widow

I’ve sold winter coldness to those who’re huge in their chests oncorners of these abandoned streets, where bars aren’t happy with myfootprints in front of
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Categories: memory, anxiety, art, caregiving, character,

The Dragon Weeping in her Bones

They say happiness is a flame,
brief as a match struck in rain.
I held it once—
a home, two sons,
a husband who smiled like promise.

Until his arms
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Categories: memory, gothic, grief, heartbroken, loneliness,

A child's first lynching

Dressed in their Sunday best
Toothy grins
Pristine shoes
Eyes sparkling with joy
A simple family picture
The epitome of innocence 
'Spick and span' as they would say

A nice family
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Categories: children, discrimination, memory, prejudice,

Premium Member When feelings war

By evening light of crimson 
Moonlight dabbled through the trees.
Formed shapes of dark and shadow climbed and crawled and followed me. 

Weary eyes did gaze
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Categories: memory, absence, death, leaving, light,

Premium Member ALREADY GONE


We did not notice at first—
the small rebellions of memory:
a forgotten kettle on the stove,
the absurd claim that Tuesday had vanished,
names reshuffled as if in
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Categories: memory, caregiving, death, family, grief,

Shiver

In another life, we were.

I hope you found
what you are looking for.

Is it too late?
Don’t turn around.

Here and everywhere,
I remember you.

In the summer wind,
what once
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Categories: memory, break up, death of

Premium Member Sarah

Sarah

Walking in the cemetery, it’s my death
Following a past. The past. Your desire

I loved you. Sorry for my life. Decadent
Sorry for the nights. Sorry for
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Categories: memory, fate, life, love,

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