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Death Spoken Word Poems

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

Echo and Narcissus retelling Ovid's the Greek poets account

    Oh Echo why, did she beguile.
    Queen Hera with loquacity.
    Thou mountain nymph whose winsome

Categories: mythology, solitude, spoken word,

A Poetic Appetite

This is hunger.
This is the way my stomach
turns itself inside out
when I hear a phrase
that makes my spine
straighten like a lightning rod.

I devour adversity
consume the

Categories: spoken word, appreciation, dedication, poems, poetry,

my rapist's follow request on facebook

ping!
like pavlov's dog,
i glance 
quick
at my phone
new facebook follow request.
i click the account
click!
my rapist. 
it's been nearly 14 years since the first the time
he laid

Categories: recovery from, strength, suicide,

In a Coat of Pain

I’ve knocked on every door of medicine men—
doors painted with hope.
Swallowed pills of every size and colour.
Been told,
“This one never fails.”
Another promise—
fulfilled only in disappointment.

The

Categories: anger, anxiety, cancer, caregiving,

Unscheduled Departure

I had not woken from sleep.
Feeling weightlessness, I peeked,
observing my body laid decease.
Slowly arisen to uncalmly peace,
realizing that I had passed in sleep.
Abnormal emotions so

Categories: spoken word, death, faith, family, goodbye,

Are you okay?

“Are you okay?” They ask me as my grandfather gets ripped from his bed.
“Are you okay?” They ask me as i acfively watched my grandfather

Categories: anger, care, death, grandchild,

Funeral poem In A Better Place

When someone first dies and leaves us,
It’s hard to lift that sense of gloom,
When their body is no longer with us,
But their presence still fills

Categories: spoken word, cry, death, death of

Hibiscus Sunrise

Hibiscus Sunrise... Not the diluted hues of Instagram filters/
 But the raw, unfiltered blaze of truth/
 They say there's one way, only one way, to

Categories: spoken word,

Words From the Grave

"It's all going to be okay" he would say,
with no scent of doubt in his breath,
even as its aroma reeked from mine, 
as I'd blurt

Categories: dad, death, grave, grief,

The Eternal Question: God, No God, Maybe God

The Eternal Question: God, No God, Maybe God
				By Tarian Marks

I had a thought about if God didn't exist
What if man alone was responsible for these

Categories: god, spoken word,

My life is like a string

my life is like a string
being stitched together and coming undone
being stitched together and coming undone
my heart is like a rainstorm 
the pitter-patter of my

Categories: 10th grade,

Reminiscence of Coleridge


"Memoir for a listener's ear."

Categories: in memoriam, tribute,

Multi-Di-Minstrel Message: Revival

KGOD presents ...

SALUTATIONS!!! 

Well.  Let’s just get started! 
Here at the Ogden!  The God den of music and soul! 
So, let me introduce

Categories: celebration, jesus,

Pageantry-My SpokenWord


Seek to cultivate 
a deeper sense
 of spiritual connection 
and oneness with the divine

~

Reflections

Take time to reflect on 
Your own experiences
 of spiritual connection and

Categories: analogy, beautiful, encouraging, heaven,

Multi-Di-Minstrel Message

Salutations! 

We’re all just a figment of God’s imagination 
Or just a simple angle of schematical equation. 
He’s especially intrigued with His favorite fascination, 
His

Categories: creation, god, song,