Death Rose Poems

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

So plant it on that petrichoric soil in rows 
As you bring at my funeral that pure ruby rose

And so? If I'm unable to perceive

© Palwasha Sharif  

In halls where silence cloaked the dread,
You raised a voice, though fear had spread.
With leaflets fluttering like doves in flight,
You lit a candle in the

© Susantha Herath  

He took a walk
to see the view.
They found a sock.
A rose, he threw.

Blue was the sky - 
the ocean, too.
He wondered why.
They found a shoe.

A

© David Crandall  

Underneath the earth, she starts
A budding, not yet known
A seed planted, unfinished, unloved

Roses grow best with bright sun and regular water
All of which she’s been

© Olivia Kiner  

These are English translations of Issa haiku about the seasons: spring, summer, autumn, winter.

Autumn wind ...
She always wanted to pluck
the reddest roses
?Kobayashi Issa translation by

© Michael Burch  

A long-stemmed rose ...
Her finest silk gown of vermilion petals 
unfurls in rhapsody of a bride's embrace.
A dewy little face of splendor looks up
and permeates

© Debjani Mitra  

a fragrant red rose, dulcet and perfumed soft
with sun kissed petals, rich and dripping sweetness
gently I carry her to you my precious and treasured one
while

© Constance La France  

Grief never leaves you; memories keep loved ones close to your heart .
Quote by poet.


John and his young wife Maria had been apart for a

© Tom Cunningham  

(Easter Resurrection Song)

He rose on the third day, the stone rolled away,
The darkness was shattered by dawn’s golden ray.
The grave could not hold Him, the

© Alesia Leach  

MIRZA GHALIB ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS

Urdu poems about life, passion, pain, night, sleep, thought, longing, laments, death & the heart.

I long to embrace her, Ghalib,
whose thought is

© Michael Burch  

In the garden where the shadows creep,
there blooms a rose where death runs deep.
Velvet petals, midnight black,
kiss its thorns—you won’t come back.

It lures you in,

© Alesia Leach  

black roses bloom where shadows creep
rooted deep in graves that weep
petals soft as silken sighs
drinking moonlight, cold and wise

they curl and twist with midnight’s breath
a

© Alesia Leach  

Listen to this grief I tell,
How love away from me didst wind.
And though in time, I think she’ll find
I loved her better – never mind

© Jerrold Prothero  

Rosebuds draft in scarlet, crimson, or maroon,
dreams to capture the viewer's point of view,
as its blossom's sheath their basis to its prune,
magnificent achievers rise in

© Hilo Poet  

The roses glisten in the dawn
Their petals wet the air turned cold
You stand there knowing what’s beyond
A truth you never meant to hold

The weight of

© Alesia Leach