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.


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

Memento Mori

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

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

In the End

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

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!

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.

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.

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

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 Quietly Walk Away

Sometimes.....we don’t have the right words to say goodbye ….
And all we know to do…. is quietly walk away.

Darrell

Jesus Message To Black Men

I see your suffering
How Satan is treating you
But hold on
and 
I will
give you 
Fruit
from 
the
Tree of Life

Premium Member when I die

When I die
Will my children have a sale
Or a fire?

A sale is a lot of work
I keep this to myself
Not caring really

Relating To the People About His Definite Death

(On the donkey) 

No cheese 
Just grease. 

Cogwheels
Life seals. 

Ceilings
Dealings.

Lots smiles
Did miles.
Form: Footle

Premium Member Graveyard Scene - Six Words

Derelict tombstones lying at death’s door. Contest: Six words Sponsor: John Lawless 02~22~16

Dead-Drunk Begonia

cat, death, dog, flower, nature, rain,
HAIKU 


It rained cats and dogs
My begonia bit the dust!
Dead-drunk begonia!
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Au Revoir

Blood drips cold through breathless necrotic lips, au revoir.
11/09/2017

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