Short Deathbed Poems

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


Premium Member Wasted Life

I can't imagine a more greater sense of strife than to be on yor deathbed knowing you've wasted your life.
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Limerick

There was a lady named Cass
Who on her deathbed passed gas
Respecting the dead
All stayed close to the bed
Hoping it would be her last
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Desert Redux

As Moses on his deathbed lay
He had so much he needed to say
All of it he'd told his people before
~ At Death's Door they were attentive more
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Autumn Leaves

Agonising golden leaves 

On their deathbed, recalling 

Days of glory that have past

Awaiting rebirth!








(c) Demetrios Trifiatis
       24 October 2016


7-7-7-5
Form: Dodoitsu

Premium Member A Mother's Regret

all the family
near her deathbed: glazed eyes seek
an aborted child


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Sponsor: Jenish Samadas

© 5th January 2020
Form: Senryu


Premium Member Autumn Leaves

Agonizing golden leaves are trembling as Autumn's bitter wind blows

Fearing to fall onto their deathbed beneath the tree and decompose!  








© Demetrios Trifiatis
    28 September 2021
Form: Couplet

' Missing the Old Days '

Life, Breath - Taken One leg gone Perished in deathbed Diabetes murdered Grandpa Benumbed by ill - gash's agony perforating - dulled Gold medal won after the day of his death reminds me of his only heart memoirs...
Form: Fibonacci

For Life Itself

At last on my deathbed
I reach for two words

The ones often transient
or sadly unheard

As my eyes close forever
to journey anew

Two words mark my passing
a final “Thank You”

(The Book Of Prayers: September, 2022)
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Next Election

Ill winds are blowing, things are turning south It's a sign of the new order, we're all down in the mouth But there's bright days ahead Not yet ready for a deathbed Next election, we'll surely be cleaning house
Form: Limerick

Dorothy On Her Deathbed

Her diminished and shading features
As if shrouded within a cocoon or now masked
Graduations of colour that death was successively imposing on her motionless features
Dimming her bouquet of red flowers that seem to float away from her
© Nigel Fox  Create an image from this poem.

Camille On Her Deathbed

Her diminished and shading features 
As if shrouded within a cocoon or now masked
Graduations of colour that death was successively imposing on her motionless features
Dimming her bouquet of red flowers that seem to float away from her
© Nigel Fox  Create an image from this poem.
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Form:

Abrading Volley

Rainfall washing
Light splashes on windowpane…

Leaving nothing behind
No pattern or trace…

If only those tears
Anguishly wept for you…

Upon your deathbed
Had washed away…

Cleansing the pain
That even now abrades my spirit…
Form: Elegy

A Firefly's Finale

He
flickers
electric
but fades to dim. 
A sidewalk deathbed,
too cold for this mystic.
Come rest on my wrist angel 
and swallow the wild, night air.
Let my slow stride lead your final waltz,
and in your last breath you will know of love.
Form: Etheree

Premium Member Deathbed

Flat on my back
Heart attack
Never saw it coming
A big smack
I hear a smile
Down a mile
Doom is looming
Hurt awhile
Pain intense
You were so tense
No flower blooming
There’s no sense
She kills
For thrills
The crow crooning
Reading your wills

Russell Sivey

Deathbed

Binding red ribbons
around silken syllables

Combing wisdom
from my eyelids

Stroking ashes
from my hair

psalms of our palms
sleeping in each pore

Meet me in death

Do not look
at my hands

Do not kiss
these opaque lips

They are
too old
to forgive

too young
to forget
Form: Elegy

What Is a Pill

What is a pill?is Is it a murder? A victim of a abuse? Or an experiment?

Is it supposed to help you get out of your deathbed faster or to it?

Is it as fragile as a bomb as if supposed to treat it with care or I can kill myself?

If used to kill someone is it an accomplice?

What is a pill?

Lost Parting Kiss

I still quarrel with the words you said
On the day we loved in bed.
Beneath them hid the pain of evanescence,
Wrapped in a crumpled paper dress.

I cannot forgive the promise you broke -
One more sunrise together, one more shared joke.
At least one parting kiss,
On the deathbed before you left.
Form: Vaasokht

Premium Member Breed

Behold! A garden of rich red roses!
Oh, how it lingers inside of my head.
A vast world unlocked another closes,
parasites now overrun this deathbed.
As the center of us now transposes,
this infestation flourishing will spread.
New take on survival of the fittest,
as flowers lay dying we breed unrest.

Mother

On her deathbed, her last gasp, I love you,
Holding my mothers hand, I cannot reply,
I could never reply,

We never said those words, we never touched,
So many of us, carry a burden,
I carry this burden,

From a mother to a son, why was I not the one?
From a son to his mother, why was I not the one?

(Stoic)
sad

Birthday Wishes

Would time resolve everything
If mine stopped
A silver lining holds me together
Little push and I may leap
Would happiness surround me
If my smile fades forever
A patient prays on his deathbed
Let me live he weeps
Another cries from her warm bed
Take me to the skies
Before the sun rises
I wish to be gone

The Kiss of Death

We'll dread
If we're on our deathbed
We'll cry
For we're going to die
That sin
It's a turmoil within
So pale
To feel so very frail
In hours
I'll give you a flower
Suppose
I'll give you a red rose
Last breath
So taste the kiss of death

Track: The Lost Boys - Cry Little Sister
Track: Slipknot - Psychosocial
Form: Couplet

Dorothy On Her Deathbed

The artist in me myself instinctively tracing 
work a share miseries to inspiration making

Shrouded within my cocoon of slashing brush strokes
lost lovely my Dorothy gently softly releases her yokes

Watching graduations of deaths cold colours on her lovely face
ship me lost anchor my heart lost love no longer in her embrace
© Nigel Fox  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Couplet

Dorothy On Her Deathbed

The artist in me myself instinctively tracing 
work a share miseries to inspiration making

Shrouded within my cocoon of slashing brush strokes
lost lovely my Dorothy gently softly releases her yokes

A watch seeing graduations of deaths cold colours on her lovely face
ship me lost my anchor my heart lost love no longer in her embrace
© Nigel Fox  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Couplet

Thoughts of a Twisted Mind

As I lay on my deathbed on
The eve of knowledge, I gazed
Into the darkness around me and
Realized that if I stared into
The dark abyss, words of
Evil would come to me, but
No part of the darkness was so vile
As the one I saw on my shadowed body.
And so, I came to realize the eternal
Philosophy of the world…
The darkness is inevitable.
© Moose Bax  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member 24

Today has 24 hours to live. 
Be at its deathbed, son,
keep a vigil, make sure you're 
included in its will. 
Of the priceless heirlooms, 
have your fill.

Sieze its shoulders,
shake it out of its last slumber
if you must. 
Cajole, wheedle and fawn,
get all that you most dearly want. 
Trust not in the largesse of
an inglorious dawn.
Form: Didactic

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