Short Death Poems

Short Death Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Death by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Death by length and keyword.


Memento Mori

black
brown
purple
red
orange
and
yellow
leaves
scattered 
aground
with
some
green
ones
fallen
among
them


In the End

Unknowing, 
Unfeeling,
Nothing,
Everything,
Empty,
Alone,
Forgotten,
Never was,
Never is,
Never will be,
Limbo.
Form: List

Untitled Poem

Death seems to be my life, 
Each day i seize to fade, 
Every waking moment and breath
We are all slowly drifting away.
Form: Lyric

Grief

Grief
a state with no expiration 
it will come, stay until it goes
how long, we don't know 
Grief has no sell by date
© Rp Kumari  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Elegy

Calluses

My hands,
Eroded by life’s troubles,
Quake in fear,
I see it approaching,
Intense and meaningful,
Is a subtle death.


Premium Member Caisteal Tioram

Our history shows
Many clannish castles fell
Dereliction death



http://www.thehighlanderspoems.com/scotland-3.php
Form: Senryu

Lethal Wish

I try to run, I try to fight no way around the pain tonight.
Wish I may, Wish I might receive the gift of DEATH tonight.
Form:

Premium Member My Headstone

Here lies Barbara She tried to write about life and living But couldn't write about death

I Do Not Believe

I do not believe
Sermon
Bow
Cry
Shout
And more .. Nothing, nothing.
You're gone
Replace empty
I'm going
Ready death login

The Impermanence of Vitality

A man lives and a man dies,
A flame burns and soon flickers out,
And so goes the pattern of vitality.

-Eddie Belcher
© Ed Belcher  Create an image from this poem.

Bluejay

all afternoon           
the blue jay calls
flies off and lands again
pushing his lifeless mate
through the dry grass
Form: Tanka

Batman Killer

Then BANG, there it was, Batman killed at the movies, Are you kidding me? (c) 2015 PJ Bayliss
© Pj Bayliss  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Senryu

If School Was Cool

If school was cool
We'd have a pool

If school was cool
we wouldn't be fools 

If school was cool
I'd be in a mool
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member An Odd Little Poem Or Two

getting to that age
where I just may
wake up dead

version 2:

getting to that age
where I just may
wake up death

Summer

The silence of summer,oh I hear!
I hear him laughing in delight..
I hear her kindness..
I hear my own voice,an ocean..
Form:

Clock Strikes Midnight

Another day gone
I face the deadly music
Fate determine what's,
Going to become of me
Time goes on as my life leaves.
Form: Tanka

Demise

I’m watching you bleed
Until your insensible 
I’ll show no mercy
I want you to be vanish
I spit on you thousand times
Form: Tanka

Loving Her Absence: No Comments

SENRYU 20180814

quiet soul mate, bird cares for nest, old sacrifice near death - June - God's work
© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Senryu

Quietus

demise
end Existence
takes without prejudice
with no care of after effects
ruin




I tried my hand at Cinquain.
Form: Cinquain

Cult

After the fire,
smoke...
Ashes...
Cult !
only when we leave
is when we will be
what we've always been,
 ..spirits!

Before the Flood

Death was invented
when life tired of the living
Eternity flexing
—the muscles of time

(Dreamsleep: November, 2022)
Form: Rhyme

Before the Flood

Death was invented
when life tired of the living
Eternity flexing
—the muscles of time

(Dreamsleep: November, 2022)

Premium Member Alarming

The alarm clock isn’t going off;
    it’s dead there on the stoop.
I fear the feral cats
    were in the chicken coop.
© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Quatrain

One Tear

One tear trickled down
The left side of your face
I asked are you hurt
Or are you in any pain
But you were distressed
© Daisy Ward  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member We are dying

pollution 
shrivels lungs
a slow death

we’ve abused
Mother Earth 
now we pay 

from afar
an angel
softly weeps
Form: Other

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