Reading and writing poems about the death of a loved one are a beautiful way to deal with the emotions and trauma associated with mortality. These beautiful and inspirations poems about death help us see how others are enduring the loss of a parent, other family members, a friend, or loved one. Everyone’s experiences are different, and we cannot compare feelings, but coping with grief and death is something all must go through, and we can learn from the sadness and reactions of others expressed in poetry.
GrasvestoneDense stone pins soft grass
indicating importance
giving gravitas
...
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Categories:
death, grave, nature,
Form: Haiku
Unknown Soldier's Role of Honor"TO ALL, and to those whom may be among the numbers of 'The Unknown' that my belated brother Kimo [August 26, 1969] may have known," ... by The Poet
(Lyrics attuned: "When the Roll Is Called...
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Categories:
appreciation, death, memorial day,
Form: Lyric
The Lavender Lays DeadNight and day, I have wept,
for the lavender lays dead,
& my locks have disintegrated,
down to the screw.
What am I to do?
When all hope is lost,
except extend my apology,
& find another place,
to pull me out...
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Categories:
allegory, death, deep, flower,
Form: Free verse
FAIR FUTILITYIt's gilded in bright colours
Like a peacock butterfly;
It sparkles in splendour
Like a diamond in the sun;
When it rests, it rests
In confined dank darkness,
In a bowel of nightmare
With what remains of a...
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Categories:
death, extended metaphor, grave,
Form: Free verse
Nova wears Heaven's crownmorning meets a nurse of caring
for many years,
an aide who's burying
some unknown fears,
a neighbor's kitten
Nova left strewn
said--bury in--garden
where Pansy's grew-in.
life's roads all lives got
when life forgot and ought not
life's care for lives share
...
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Categories:
death, abuse, best friend, cat,
Form: Haibun
Two Poets Meet CollaborationWhat do you see when you see trees?
My eyes travel each trunk and branch.
With feathered leaves in blowing breeze
till the chipper comes with a cranch!
Your details shine with luminescence -
I eschew detail for the...
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Categories:
death, humor, love, poetry,
Form: Other
Calendrical CasinoTen.
Ten years, I've been scared,
fearing the phone's ring.
Twenty.
Twenty years, I was,
learning how goodbye really felt.
Thirty.
Thirty years, I reached,
forty-four days ago.
Forty.
Forty, my brother was,
for fifty-seven days.
That's all he got...
and that feels like all for me.
I'm terrified,...
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Categories:
death, grief, loss, memorial
Form: Free verse
Dealing with DeathThe darkness,
I will not dwell,
and the pain shall ebb.
Withered in its wake,
indelible of mind.
Intervals by chance,
a surety in life.
Grief,
the toll of it's permanence....
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Categories:
death, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Cassady LaneAbandoned
on the road of distant sorrow
mile markers bloody from the vagrants
it has claimed
All names
inscribed with crimson warnings
on devil written
eulogies
Their cries
entombed within an
eastern wind
— that blows away the dawn
(The Devil’s Highway (666): June, 2002)
...
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Categories:
death, life,
Form: Free verse
REINCARNATIONWe go and come
We come again and go again
...a ring
Like water that ascends
...to return as rain
...to smoke up again...
A circle
An order
My ancestors are back
Staring into my soul
Through the eyeballs
Of...
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Categories:
allusion, death, hope, life,
Form: Free verse
Epiphany("Eye of Storm", original encaustic, 2017)
Epiphany
I’ve had two major epiphanies in my life,
And I figure three is all we really get.
So far they are following a pattern
Of thesis/antithesis
So I assume the third will be some...
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Categories:
appreciation, death, life, perspective,
Form: Narrative
Faraway RoadShe stands at the window,
Looking at the children in the meadow,
Playing outdoors is a luxury,
She’s saddled with drudgery.
She feels the world has no place for her,
And emancipation is only a blur,
She wishes she could hide...
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Categories:
death, girl, home, hope,
Form: Quatrain
Sarah’s OriginMy eyes stare straight,
fixated on something in the distance,
humming a song that would send chills,
if you ever got the chance to listen.
A padded cell and a straitjacket,
the doctor giving one of his ‘visits,’
his moans...
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Categories:
dark, death, gothic,
Form: Epic
Lost Track of a Ginger SnapGet in your room now,” as daddy fashioned a gun.
Mom grabbed me and her facial expression was undone,
something must be wrong,
I ask she looked at me and welts started to run,
down we hunkered under the...
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Categories:
animal, dark, death, dog,
Form: Narrative
Never Forget Always RememberIt's memorial day
Don't forget it's not OK
To think it's just a day for you
To enjoy a BBQ
And have an extra long weekend
Forgetting lives lost who defend
Your freedom and paid the price
With their unselfish sacrifice
Keep them...
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Categories:
appreciation, death, hero, memorial
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Death Poems
Read wonderful death poetry on the following sub-topics:
anniversary, brother, cat, child, dog, elegy, eulogy, father, friend, funeral, goodbye, grandfather, grandmonther, grief, in loving memory, loss, lover, memorial, missing you, mother, moving on, pet, rip, sad, sister, suicide, sympathy,
and more.
Definition | What is Death in Poetry?
Poems Related to Death
afterlife, bereavement, darkness, death of a friend, decease, demise, departure, dying, eternal rest, extinction, fatality, grave, grim reaper, heaven, loss, lost love, mortality, paradise, parting, passing, passing over, repose, sleep, the end, tomb