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Death Sonnet Poems

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


Premium Member The Last Song
Within a circle of emerald peaks
Where memories stretch a million mile long
Whistled through bright black plumes and golden streaks
Wherever life exists, it sings a song

Blessed...

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Categories: bird, death, nature, obituary,



Genuine Intelligence

The mind that dreams, not fed by lines of code,
A spark that flickers, born of flesh and blood,
With every joy and every heavy load,
It feels...

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Categories: wisdom,

Echoes: Veils of Uncertainty
A silver bird departs, the sky serene,
Yet morning’s promise shatters in a breath;
Ash falls where laughter and bright hopes had been,
A city mourns the sudden...

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Categories: death, funeral, life, vanity,

Unwelcome Dwelling

A shadow stretches where the soul once stood,
Its voice now mine, though not of mortal breath.
It moves my limbs with cold, unholy good—
A marionette in...

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Categories: horror,

Premium Member Renewal continual
“refrains of love enchantingly repeat ~ 
all that that is is simply God’s heartbeat”
           ...

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Categories: god, self, spiritual,



Premium Member It Is Possible To Know
It's possible to know from whence I came
There is no need to even have a name
I am a part of eternal creation
Reunification is my destination

Born...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bird, creation, death, introspection,

Premium Member Universal Questions
I stand here gazing at stars in the sky,
Wondering what happens when I die?
It’s harder to see with my own eye,
The purpose of life as...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: death, imagination, introspection, life,

Premium Member Eternal Life
I’ve heard others talking as if He were dead,
But He rose to give life to others instead.
I’m only one, small it may seem,
But He died...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: death, giving, god, life,

Premium Member Bride of the Sea
Ships sink to bottom in billowing sea;
"It's in that number," apparent to some;
Walking the coast, "I'm no widow," said she;
Either await or admit it won't...

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Categories: death, hope, life, lost,

Veils of Uncertainty
A silver bird departs, the sky serene,
Yet morning’s promise shatters in a breath;
Ash falls where laughter and bright hopes had been,
A city mourns the sudden...

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Categories: death, life, vanity,

Premium Member My Inner Voice Told Me
There was a D.J. at a club where I
would go some weekend nights and dance till late.
Not gorgeous, but an entertaining guy,
he called me up...

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Categories: dark, youth,

Premium Member Give Me the Rhythm
With anguished hands, (they lie) his hands in play.
I saw him as a mad, creative type.
In pick of months, his guitar coughs dismay.
The covid creep,...

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Categories: christmas, death, music,

Looking to the Harvest
A lunar luster spills a silvershine
cascade of nebulating moonshine lilt
onto a night-time field, drawing a quilt
of pale radiance over the still vine. 

A myriad of...

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Categories: sonnet, care, death, environment, garden,

Premium Member Deep in Greenwood Cemetery
"Across our childhood’s street we trod on carpet lawn and holy sod. We walked along where some had prayed. Where once we played, he now...

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Categories: anniversary, death,

Crayon Box Dreams
When days of dreary tropes could feel no duller,
and gray heavens escape my pencil’s reach,
—oh misery!, it can’t be set to speech,—
my crayon box dreams...

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Categories: art, creation, depression, inspiration,


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