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Death Sorrow Poems

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


When Death Stopped for Me
Because I could not escape from Life –  
It rudely dragged me forth –  
The chaos swirled, consuming all –  
And Oblivion,...

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Categories: sorrow, age, cry, destiny, endurance,



Always You
I dreamt of you again last night.
You spoke a foreign language,
and you did not know your name.
But I knew it was you because your beauty...

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Categories: sorrow, bereavement, betrayal, death, dream,

All Turns Silent in the Meadows
It was the strangest thing I saw that day
A grassy grove and a man shouting mad
I didn't even know what to say
His face dragged down...

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Categories: sorrow, cry, death, loss, psychological,

Premium Member Beneath the branches
You'll find me under the stars
Beneath the branches of a willow tree
Longing for something 
That'll never be seen
2 parts slave
1 part free
Forgotten by lovers
Forgotten by...

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© Roger Harp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sorrow, death, extended metaphor, life,

Premium Member As a Raven Caws

Something dreadful do I see, reflected in her eyes.
Could be death she's seen in a horrid dream, or
perhaps the relapse of a wretched addiction
that's left...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sorrow,



The Great 8
We started as 8 with the unique zest of life in our own way, but it was not to be for eternity for the first...

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Categories: sorrow, bereavement, death, emotions, family,

Echoes of Sorrow mourning the Loss of Innocence
It grieves me to witness our youth's demise,
Each day, each hour, another life unties.
Daughters, sons, announced dead, bereft,
In a world where cruelty has left.

What have...

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Categories: sorrow, anger, anxiety, death, emotions,

Sanguine Sorrow: Tears of Crimson Pain
Peer deep into my eyes, what do you perceive? They hail me as strong, yet my heart grieves. Funny how it no longer bleeds red,...

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Categories: sorrow, anxiety, betrayal, deep, pain,

Epitaph
I saw epitaph
Engrave says, "He died of love".
Pinch my heart to laugh.
...

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Categories: sorrow, death, funny love, memorial,

Premium Member Let Me Go
I hugged her lightly.
Never having a sister before,
I was scared I’d break her.
Turtle, the best name I decided.
A shelter from harm always near her.

She grew...

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Categories: sorrow, death, emotions, heartbroken, sister,

Premium Member Grief
Grief
Trauma and loss, a child has died
That never goes away …don't even try
It's in every room,every breath,every step you take
When Your asleep and when your...

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Categories: sorrow, baby, child, death, grief,

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By Chad Carlson

The title says it all. I've been cursed with family deaths... Let me explain. 1 grandmother and 2 uncles is 3 deaths in...

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Categories: sorrow, death, deep, family, grandmother,

Premium Member Plague
beak
of the plague mask
    lest I smell
your rotting bodies
    strewn
I smell your crosses
  daub your doors
I smell your...

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Categories: sorrow, dark, death, earth, history,

Her departing words
As she awaited for her head to pass through the guillotine, She said to the young girl who was standing in front of her
Who was...

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Categories: sorrow, death, emotions, farewell, fear,

Premium Member Sullen Sorrow Sadness
tears freezing crystal fingertips 
upon cryptic cemetery cheeks 
under claustrophobic clothing clouds 
fresh fangs of finality fires 
morbid mournful mind
hearts rot as the reaper's roses
flakes...

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Categories: sorrow, death of a friend,


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