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Death Verse Poems

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


Lens Of Life

Can blackwater lilies sing forth 
sonnets of daylight and unsung those cacophonous notes of camouflaging omen, 
which rhymed with grief-stricken elixir 
of spruce rivulets and...

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Categories: verse, angst, betrayal, death, emotions,



Fame
When you've been marked 
and filed away 
and blades of grass replace legions
of euphoric fans
the only unfettered applause left
will be rustling of trees above.

But you'll...

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Categories: verse, death,

My Heaven
All I want Is to sit in a field 
Filled with flowers all around me
Sun shinning on me 
it’s warmth, a soft embrace 
Listening to...

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© Paola Soto  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: verse, death, depression, desire, freedom,

Premium Member Black Confetti Gone
The children are gone.
Conversations turn to black confetti.
Dining in separate cells
fingering our cell phone pals to death
until they turn us on.
Chips in our relationship throb...

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Categories: verse, absence,

Premium Member Walter
She stares into the casket
open, not what he wanted,
but she did, even more now.
“Stiffer than he’s ever been.”
she snickered, silent, unheard.
“O M F G thirty...

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Categories: verse, death,



HUMMINGBIRD MAN
Every hum
How sweet
Rhythm the sound
Franklyn Greene the man
Had his own demand
Lived to proof
Enthused
True Sportsmen
Solid foundation
Hourglass timed out
Whispers from the distance
Distances far and close
Yesterday’s past
Tomorrow’s everlasting
The...

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Categories: verse, bereavement, best friend, care,

Resurrection
The cold gates of the blazing seventh circle
will again open for one before another,
The mouths of the ground remain ajar
to snatch before heaven has barely...

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© Bantu West  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: verse, bereavement, bible, change, funeral,

Premium Member Beating A Dead Horse

Reins lifted in spite, a grimace
Blistering the urge to forgive the way
Black changed to gray right before your eyes,
Easing away the pain like, in fading,...

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Categories: verse, animal, death of a

If I die tonight my message to be
If I die tonight my message to be
With it’s grace I clearly see 
an escape in Zephaniah 2;3

In this life that I reside 
humbled and...

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Categories: verse, april,

Premium Member Soul's Repeating Hymn
I'm still here, count the seconds, now I know
Not for long though
"How long?"
Your guess is as good as mine
Time to dive deep
How I miss that
Not...

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© Lee Norton  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: verse, conflict, death, deep, eulogy,

Sage Tidings
For the “Unwritten absence” poetry contest 
by: Ink Empress

Deluged with the nostalgic era of you,
Your lush verdant scent lining 
Wistful sentiments upon idle reflections 
Scattered...

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Categories: verse, death, grandparents, life, love,

Premium Member Walk Through
calendar pages turn
and
sun drops lower     in his orbit
tired     of living     the zenith.

So as...

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Categories: verse, death, goodbye, heaven,

28:06:42:12 OR the red death
"28:06:42:12" OR "the red death"


hookah's pookha
hocus pocus
an opium dream
or backyard rabbit

sincerely Sinclair
habitate but not quite
suburban but a matter
of fact so i ask:

red rover red rover
come...

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Categories: verse, color,

Premium Member Vicious
Death life’s’ adversary
Cruel selfless all about me
Discriminate no bounds
Grim reaper swallows 
Another soul washed away 
A child is born 
Life is carried on 
Love and...

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Categories: verse, absence,

Premium Member Vicious
Death life’s’ adversary
Cruel selfless all about me
Discriminate no bounds
Grim reaper swallows 
Another soul washed away 
A child is born 
Life is carried on 
Love and...

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Categories: verse, absence,