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.
Our Final TestOur final test will be graded
When our breath has dissipated
Life itself is our final test
Final grade when we’re laid to rest
Taking the test may make...
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Categories:
death, heaven, life, spiritual,
Being Alive
Being Alive
Miracle Man
1/1/2025
On January first of two thousand seventeen,
God reclaimed me from death’s certain throes.
Three days prior it was “The Widow Maker’s” scene,
with Sudden Cardiac...
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Categories:
blessing, death, god, health,
Our Path Full of Whispers, part 1Sonnet for Antony and Cleopatra
Two Empires Entwined
He gave up Rome to chase her scented air,
A queen whose kiss could rouse the Nile to sing.
...
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Categories:
history, love,
EgoIs it a furnace of coal?
Is it a bottomless well?
Is it the night of my soul?
Is it as unsafe as hell?
Is it might in its...
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Categories:
life, pride, vanity,
Calendar GirlYou celebrate your Death-Day every year,
a “selfie” trampling on your grave-to-be,
without your knowing. Anniversary?
Through predetermined locks you have to steer.
As flotsam tumbles over each steep...
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Categories:
death,
Summer PassingImpossible beauty, summer in swell,
Fragrance aflowing and fluttering around;
Though now, I admit, I don’t see it well,
I know – my ears! – all the birds...
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Categories:
age, beauty, death, howl,
Electric Summer MistIn summer's heat, where vibrant blossoms sway,
A storm awakens, darkened clouds align,
The thunder whispers secrets of the day,
While lightning's...
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Categories:
anger, betrayal, fate, moving
Salvation
God’s gift of salvation is for everyone,
His death on the cross was payment for our sin.
For sin He gave His only begotten son,
when we confess...
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Categories:
destiny, god, heaven, jesus,
Death of the EgoI never thought they would figure me out
How could they find me in the layers of illusion?
I never thought one could completely turn about
So many...
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Categories:
change, god, heart, introspection,
My Friend Is the Ocean
My friend is the ocean, waters that glide,
Rustling my footsteps and tousling my hair;
Many the times that we walked side by side,
A spark and forever,...
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Categories:
abuse, allegory, friendship, innocence,
Wrongful Life Claim Against My Father
They filed his blood beneath a numbered case—
the marrow went to war without a call.
The VA counted cells, not what took place
in basements where his...
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Categories:
america, death, family, war,
Murder in the Red BarnA couple soon to be said newly wed,
yet swiftly snuck behind the family’s back
to swear the vow inside th’old shack,
quick forgot’n, buried a secret dread;...
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Categories:
sonnet, dark, death, horror, murder,
The Darkest HourThe darkest hour comes with pain that's insane,
Excruciating, unrelenting pain.
The sobbing and gasping are so abrupt.
The heart is broken; the body gives up.
The darkest hour...
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Categories:
dark, death, evil, light,
Back to the BeginningWhat is the meaning of it all?
If I told you, you’d surely bawl.
Cry like a baby, yes you would,
If all of truth you understood.
Truth can...
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Categories:
birth, creation, death, remember,
The Last SongWithin a circle of emerald peaks
Where memories stretch a million miles 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,