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Death Myth Poems

These Death Myth poems are examples of Myth poems about Death. These are the best examples of Myth Death poems written by international poets.

The Haunting of the Moon

The Haunting of the Moon


She comes when the Moon is heavy
With wishes from many a maid
Who with passionate longing,
Their dreams upon it laid

She comes when...

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Categories: lost love, moon, myth,

Ode To The Crow

Steeped in mysterious magic
fearlessly they go
an eerily mischievous bird
you’re never far from a crow

Mystical messenger of the occult
blackest black obsidian plume
baneful omen of death they...

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Categories: myth, bird, dedication, imagery, magic,

The Siren's Song

I sped around
a painted ship
the deck, all deck
where she, the song
that lured me there
does captivate
again

but as she sang
she voiced a sea
the mouth, all mouth
cried crew...

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Categories: myth, dark, death, fate, horror,

Seabed

below the billows
listen to the siren’s song
place your fears to bed...

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Categories: death, myth, ocean, peace,

The Revenant pt 3 - The Midnight Hour

The Revenant pt. 3 - The Midnight Hour

             ~{Renatus}~

Toll of the bell at...

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Categories: myth, betrayal, corruption, dark, death,

My Beloved Antichrist

Raised off tales of a biblical nature,
I had always been warned,
About a particular creature,
The devil bound to human flesh,
To bring us destruction,
To bring us death,

He...

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Categories: myth, abuse, bible, dad, daughter,

The Revenant pt 2 - Leviaethan

The Revenant pt. 2 - Leviæthan
 
                  ...

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Categories: myth, anger, betrayal, dark, dream,

- Rambling -

       It requires magical thinking
       to put things in the right way
 ...

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Categories: death, history, mystery, myth,

Excerpts from Gilgamesh

He Lived: Excerpts from “Gilgamesh”
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

I.
He who visited hell, his country’s foundation,
Was well-versed in mysteries’ unseemly dark places.
He deeply explored many...

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Categories: myth, death, death of a

The Revenant pt 1 - A Blighted Vale I

The Revenant pt. 1 - A Blighted Vale (pt 1/2)

A solitary figure off the beaten path,
The air a palpable gloom
Be it mortal or shade of...

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Categories: myth, corruption, dark, destiny, fantasy,

Rhiannon

There it is
The old kettle
Whispering on the hearth
In the winter it speaks to me
Of nights out on the moor

And as the wind
It whistles down the...

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Categories: beauty, death, mystery, myth,

Cat and Mouse

Grimm's Fairy Tale:
Cat and Mouse in Partnership

Summary: 

A cat befriends a mouse and is so persuasive about her fondness for the smaller animal that the...

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Categories: myth, animal, cat, children, fairy,

The Old man

Part Two : The Tale of Artuir mac Aedan; The light of the West
(A tale of the hero of legend, a hero of Dalriada, who...

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Categories: myth, age, character, confusion, fairy,

Mystery of Chaos

Clouds are silvery
Clouds are a mystery 
Mystery is mesmerizing 
Mystery is like smoke
Smoke is blurry 
Smoke creates paintings
Paintings inspire thoughtful minds
Paintings appeal to dreamy eyes
Eyes...

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Categories: myth, dark, earth, fire, mystery,

Riddle of the Sphinx

Face of femme fatale,
she soars across the sky,
lionhearted warrior,
asking all who catch her eye,
‘Tell me the creature,
with only one voice,
on all fours from morning,
two feet...

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Categories: myth, allegory, extended metaphor, fantasy,