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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.


Silent Stones Cemetery Sleep

Where shadows stretch and ancient stones reside,
A silent city sleeps beneath the trees.
Each weathered name, a story left aside,
Whispers of lives carried on the breeze.

The...

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Categories: death,



Premium Member Why are we here
What purpose does it serve to negate light,
given that upon death we must return,
restored as our Self, dancing in delight,
healed from bleeding wounds that in...

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Categories: life, love, self, spiritual,

Lost and Ill-Replaced
Oh, what pale imitation now is this?

My train of empty carriages which held 
A score of lovers, harem of my flesh,
Now emptied of those who...

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Categories: anxiety, death of a

Premium Member For Wynnis Johnson
We are life unto death sealed in its hold
  when mortal limits fill a dateless urn,
a worldly spirit in a spirit world
  for...

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Categories: death, dedication, farewell, teacher,

We Live in Denial
In blackest halls, a phosphorescent light
Shines forth from darkest depths, a honey glow.
Enraged, ignited, I now blinding bright,
A magma burning, pyroclastic flow,

Torching golden beams to...

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Categories: analogy, anxiety, depression, extended



Premium Member The Soul of a Tyrant
A tyrant, though he’s feared, he also fears:
A symmetry of horror unites them all.
Unleashed, a dragon that forever nears,
And he, as all the rest, it...

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Categories: death, fear, hate, horror,

Premium Member The Wisdom of Age
That age brings wisdom, mainly aged say,
And yet, there comes a calm as passion dies;
And as a poet said another day,
The old, as good for...

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Categories: age, career, life, meaningful,

Premium Member Romeo and Juliet
The love that knows no boundary set by clan;
The clans that know no love except for war;
The flower that dares to bloom, but never can;
This...

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Categories: conflict, death, history, life,

Premium Member An Angel Visits the Earth
An angel sent to visit us on Earth,
The realm of bliss to this of grinding woe;
What must she think to dwell in love's sad dearth?
But...

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Categories: angel, conflict, death, life,

Premium Member Brutus - Sonnet Version
"And you, Brutus?" And then was Caesar dead.
A moment's act and history's chapter done;
A moment's thrust and Caesar's life was bled,
And you the one that...

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Categories: anger, betrayal, death, history,

The 23rd Song of David
David had two wives, and I have none
Was he truly never in need and not of wants
Oh, how is this not a comical pun
Just to...

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Categories: absence, depression, emotions,

Testament - Feb 21
If unexpectedly I were to die, 
then this at least is here for all to see -
something of mine, a collection of what was I;
to...

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Categories: beauty, creation, death, fate,

The Everlasting Dream
Dreams that destructed never end,
Whither we held them or they us,
Every sweet morn brings woes hand
In hand,recall every sweet loss.

Death never the end of this...

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Categories: dream,

Premium Member The Book of Souls
    The Book of Souls is well composed by Nature.
    through serial changes : Adaptation
    continued...

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Categories: death, how i feel,

Premium Member Blank Canvas
      Like as the waves make toward the pebbled shore,
          ...

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Categories: art, nature, wisdom,


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