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Mortality Poems - Poems about Mortality

Borrowed Time
We spend our time on wasted days And cheaply sell our souls for ways To cheat the forms of our decline And stretch the skein of borrowed time...

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Categories: mortality, fate, loss,
Form: Rhyme
The jewel of Jesus
No wonder, Jesus was a jewel, He was a...

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Categories: mortality, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Maturation
I was helpless, I was shining. You were knowing. and bestowing. When my steps were unsteady, you held my hand. You were ready. Age is just a number, you said grinning broadly like a little girl repeating a loving fib. You...

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Categories: mortality, age, friendship love, longing,
Form: Free verse
Echoes of Mortality
In life's grand tapestry, we weave our tale, Striving, reaching, against the winds that assail. Yet in our pursuits, a shadow cast, The specter of death, inevitable and vast. Battles waged with vigor, dreams pursued, Yet mortality's whisper cannot be subdued. A test unyielding, a foe untamed, In the dance of life, death remains unnamed. No matter the triumphs, the victories won, The final...

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Categories: mortality, dark, death, evil, fate,
Form: Lyric
Not dead yet
I never noticed your age, creeping up but never reflected in your face. Your voice still warms and soothes me. "Nana's here!" Was my war cry, and now my children's. I'm not jealous, more of a passing the gong. Love is limitless as you always told me, to share you with my closest people is...

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Categories: mortality, bereavement, wisdom,
Form: Prose



The Missing Collar
The sun does arise, On the valley sweet, The birds & pups wise, Call our kits to meet. The hoots & hollers, Sound loud for miles; Yet! Amiss is one collar, Lone in the Sky Isles. The sun does down, On the green hills tired, Lining the vale round, Our pets to bed retired. The whistles...

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Categories: mortality, animal, cat, death, emotions,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Due to Mortals
Green, gold, gray, old, from thence they pass away. And from the dawn, the night is cast, What's due to mortals falls at last. ...

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Categories: mortality, age, day, death, destiny,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dirt
From the dirt we were made. In the dirt we have stayed. We were given a map And from the path we have strayed. We loudly complain Every time we are hurt And yet, for some reason We all still stay in the dirt. From the dirt we were made. In the dirt we have played. We have all heard the voice Of Edward Hyde and...

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Categories: mortality, life,
Form: Rhyme
Death
Hello Death I’m not here to meet you yet The time I hope is not yet set I only have some questions for you When you give your cold embrace Is it for those who fear your face Why do you hug When you kill with drug Do you enjoy pain Are you even sane Do you even look upon those faces that cloths are...

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Categories: mortality, death,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Old Tongues, Quiet Truths
The oldest voices whisper below the ground. Hands pull on roots — wind-beaten, gnarled — stories woven through the fabric of time. Bark peeled slick, leaves flattened, the wisdom of what makes whole lies between finger and thumb, passed along like a flame, a prayer. But the soil only knows part of the story. The other half lives in breath, a noise wafting through...

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Categories: mortality, life,
Form: Free verse
Nature Poems by Michael R Burch
These are nature poems about unusual plants like the moonflower and agave. Moonflower by Michael R. Burch after Robert Hayden Marveling, we at last beheld the achieved flower— both awed and repelled by its alienness, its moonlit petals, its cloying fragrance, its transcendence, its shimmering and wavering intimations of mortality ... To Flower by Michael R. Burch We are not long for this earth, I know— you and I,...

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Categories: mortality, beautiful, beauty, earth, flower,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Clock on the Wall
“The Clock on the Wall” That clock! The clock with cruelty, unmovable. Telling time to be forever in motion. The ticking, a deafening sound. Marked by grime. Yellowed by generations, grown digital. By generations choosing to be illiterate. The face, weathered from gazing faces…from faces. Forever burdened by the echo. TOCK! Each minute, reversing youth. Spinning hours that grin madly at...

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Categories: mortality, analogy, angst, change, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hourglass of Primal Wolf Skulls
Why does he provoke me to anger? He stalks among us - with his song - a wolf's grin His inimicality beckons like a hawk's talons, luring prey to certain death Yet he imparts wisdom to those who bleed Beware! his insights twist like a pit of pepper x vipers; devouring souls He spins tales of survival and primal instinct Beneath the façade lies decay concealing...

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Categories: mortality, halloween, philosophy, psychological,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Little Poems
There's freedom in a poem. It's just a little leaf or a feather floating by on the breeze. No one could ever take it too seriously. It's far too small to really make a difference ... right? So a poet...

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Categories: mortality, freedom, life, peace, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Walled Away
The pain is shored up, hidden behind bricks, But it shows through tiny, myriad cracks. Deception fools the deceiver, plays tricks, Discretion does not allow the heart to relax. The soul bears all, bares everything to love, The mind shuts away betrayals of trust. Faith vies with disbelief, faces trials tough, Loyalty oh so often submits to blatant lust. Why sacrifice all when...

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Categories: mortality, faith, loss, love, sorrow,
Form: Sonnet

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