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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.

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When the tar-soaked rain cascades from ominous clouds,  
And the oceans roar with Poseidon’s might,  
As the screaming ground heaves beneath your careless...

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Categories: verse, dark, deep, depression, gothic,

Remembrances

Where did the time go,  
Slipping through calloused fingers,  
Lost to the ever-fickle wheels of fate,  
Like grains of sand swept up...

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Categories: verse, death, gothic, heartbroken, imagery,

Silver Bullet

As I look into the vast ocean of wight,
here in the shadows of wont right,
left amongst the myriad mellifluously,
will you still hold a monstera like...

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Categories: verse, dark, fate, forgiveness, goodbye,

After the First Date Waiting at the Door

Softly, falling snowflakes dance around us, a whimsical trance subtle scents of winter's breath mingling with the promise of new life's depth — with our...

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Categories: verse, death,

Dreamscapes in Minuet

Act I: 
Gaze a burning gift of a rainbow kaleidoscope reflecting a passage into the wavering pine of mesmerizing clouds and surreal meadows with candy...

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Categories: verse, animal, bird, dark, death,

My parents

1. I never had the chance to say goodbye to either of you, and I regret not having the time to grieve properly. I also...

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Categories: verse, death, family, parents,

Before I Die

I'm so ashamed 
That when I die
I don't want a picture of my face
On the alter
Or at my funeral...

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Categories: verse, angst, death, depression, funeral,

In the heart of the night, under the leaden and weeping sky

In the heart of the night, under the leaden and weeping sky,
amidst the twisted shadows of our thoughts,
we let ourselves be carried by a cold...

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Categories: verse, fantasy,

Fading Photographs

He sat captured in a surprised look,
Middle-aged, youthful and vibrant,
He was committed to his work and family,
An uncommon balance admired by his colleagues.

His story was...

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Categories: verse, death, father, loss, sad,

after a war and a mask

After the war

There had been a war that Germany lost
a soldier found a mask made of wood 
in a basement and took it home  as a...

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Categories: verse, absence, abuse, africa, age,

death has a fit

death rode by on a scooter today
I gave her a bit of a cheery wave
she frowned at me, and I know why
she wants to be...

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Categories: verse, humor,

Inner spirit of love and Wisdom

Inner spirit of love and Wisdom


An inner spirit of wisdom and love fills all hearts
with light and peace, bring them through the
mist of understanding and...

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Categories: verse, inspirational,

Under the Mountain

you never saw me when i was 
		itching at the sky for answers
	that were never there,

			opening all of the gates and all of the pits
			beyond...

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Categories: verse, deep,

A Thought-Provoking Pause



Whose clay shell is about to be interred,
returned to the earth? 
I wonder as I sit waiting for the procession to pass.
Ashes to ashes, dust...

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Categories: verse, death, funeral, philosophy,

songbird

Droplets fall at the existence of my anxiety 
Around every corner I’m drowning 
A new wave crashing over me
I feel the warmth of a gentle...

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Categories: verse, anxiety, death, i miss