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Death Support Poems

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


Premium Member Songs From the Umbra
we found each other's bodies
in a pile of bodies
writhing and squirming for the light

you were pulling petals off flowers
I was teaching young children how to...

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Categories: support, deep, mental illness, metaphor,



Fight Against Fentanyl
Back in World War II, young men fought and died
Their bravery and sacrifice will never be denied
They fought for a cause, a noble fight
And we...

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Categories: support, addiction, community, death, inspiration,

Premium Member Asking For Strength
the thought of you
burns through my heart
a turmoil that i try to hide

while warm breezes
cross the summer fields
run in and out my mind

i wander and...

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Categories: support, earth, longing, loss, love,

Paw Prints In the Sand
PAW PRINTS IN THE SAND 

David Lasaine 2017

When you were alone, I was there.
When the sun rose or set, I was there.
When you faced death,...

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Categories: support, animal, appreciation, best friend,

Inspired Sunshine
INSPIRED SUNSHINE



Sunshine and serenity, a piece of mind upon,
the wings of an eagle, above the great beyond,
far away from the pull, that tugged me to...

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Categories: support, christian, courage, motivation, recovery



Premium Member Legacy
He was my neighbor.
He lived up the street.

Sometimes he said “Hi”.

One day I saw him 
At the corner store.

We walked home 
Together.

I said I was...

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Categories: support, death of a friend,

Poem For Ma Who Liked Poetry
Ma,
Leaping off the crown of a candle,
A hot bead without hold or handle,
Blobbed as us all on the bee-smell body of a star.

Air,
Shushing from the...

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Categories: support, beautiful, bereavement, death, eulogy,

Enhance
Enhance--
Ever-present
Foundation for support.
Never failing, always teaching!
Enrich.


Remembering Linda Diane Christy 4.30.2020...

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Categories: support, blessing, death of a

Premium Member A Recollection
Memories come rushing back
of the friends once forgot
in the mists of living angst
behind the veil of private death

the exclamations that surprise
distant echoes of the past
breaking...

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© Sean Green  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: support, friendship,

Life Support
I remember the hospital bed
Cold, unforgiving as it was
With tubes stretching out like an octopus
Holding life ransom or saving it

The room and walls too
Painted white,...

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Categories: support, caregiving, emotions, sick,

Life Support
Life Support 


The night is calm and shimmers 
in its moonlight coat. 
I sit and watch the ocean as I 
wrest with dark demons. 

The...

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Categories: support, angst, child, death, farewell,

Premium Member With
with dying breath
holding the hand
of a chaplain



posted on September 26, 2018...

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Categories: support, death, spiritual,

Life Support
The church has given up on me.
Giants of bureaucrats sit on their thrones
Referred to as justice
They have their agendas
Call it by any other name
I call...

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Categories: support, analogy, conflict, death, feelings,

Towards Deaths Door and Back
I hope this letter, to you, a stranger 
Becomes a letter to a friend 
As we travel on this journey to its end
Yes we’ll start...

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© Mike Toole  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: support, cancer, death, encouraging, friendship

Make Another Happy
My friend she came to visit whilest
Braving some despair-
For we lost a mutual friend
Though supported me, she cared.

"Everyone around me
Is talented- just like you
I'm really...

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Categories: support, best friend, death of


Book: Shattered Sighs