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Dead Poems - Poems about Dead

Dead Poems - Examples of all types of poems about dead to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for dead.
The stranger of the night
...I always wonder, when a car drives past, Where they are going, how long the journey will last. Or who they are, the life they have had, What memories they’ve had, both happy and sad. I walk the......Read the rest...
Categories: dead, appreciation, beauty, emotions, feelings,
Form: Rhyme



out of time
...Out  of time I wanted to be on the gloom outside time puncture a hole in physical, crawled through Was met with grey stillness a sewer of spent time  Also, the time that happened, yet Also, l......Read the rest...
Categories: dead, absence, angst, blue,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Kleinkoph Super Patriot
... Kleinkoph’s* quick to brag he’s a patriot (and gets fighting mad to learn if you’re not!) For if you’re not American as he is you’re either a foreigner or a communist. As for rights and fr......Read the rest...
Categories: dead, character,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member The dead speak
...Words of the dead rise telling their tales in our ears winds unkept secrets......Read the rest...
Categories: dead, death,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Longing for relief
...Inside I'm so dead losing so much already living with this grief......Read the rest...
Categories: dead, death,
Form: Senryu



Flies of Fate
...Fly! Fly! Fly! In the field of Reeds, Walk through golden breeze, Smell the scent of allure, Clear sky and clearer mind. Fate! Fate! Fate! Promise me the world over, Promise me you wouldn't......Read the rest...
Categories: dead, death, fate, fear, metaphor,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Devoured by a Cat or Dog
...Would you rather be devoured by a dog or a cat? I had asked this of a meadow lark, a rodent, bacon and a bat. The bacon was silent, but the other three quickly chimed in about this. I don’t like i......Read the rest...
Categories: dead, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member what is going on out there
...Yowling and howling, snarling and snapping Came in through a window when my husband was napping It sounded like a sound off, I was sure a cat would be dead. My own cat bounced in moments later, hi......Read the rest...
Categories: dead, cat,
Form: Rhyme
A place I've grown to hate
...I wade through stagnant waters Unable to change my state. Forwards and backwards both lead to here, A place ive grown to hate. In the labrinth of days that blur to gray I wander, lost, with no......Read the rest...
Categories: dead, change, depression, emotions, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Israel Tries to Rejoice
... gladness… rejoicing at four hostages rescue… … lead rescuer’s dead ......Read the rest...
Categories: dead, death, irony, jewish, joy,
Form: Senryu
What do they know
...What do they know... of You and me? of You, who designed…and… commanded me…to breathe? What do they know …? of my development… in the womb how You structured and prepared this so......Read the rest...
Categories: dead, christian, devotion, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member On the Edge
...Broad moon rapidly drops six feet out of view. A shadow casts on stodgy, trickling of creek. Sharply, a face breaks ground, above plot’s subdue. The late dead stars fall on waters, dammed and weak......Read the rest...
Categories: dead, grave, scary,
Form: Ottava rima
Premium Member Emotional Disability
...Being emotionally disabled can be very embarrassing at times many people just don't understand why you can't stop crying my young children said my mom has the crying disease I wasn't always disabled......Read the rest...
Categories: dead, america, i love you,
Form: Free verse
no bombs here
...No bombs here I walked ashore in Nagasaki  traces of the bomb had gone the dead buried the maimed packed away  no one wanted to talk about the bomb Nagasaki had many shops  I bought a kimon......Read the rest...
Categories: dead, absence, adventure, analogy,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Maude's Last Stand
...Maude’s Last Stand (Rage, Rage, Rage against the dying of the light - Dylan Thomas ) They put me on the second floor Now uniforms pass by my door Starched and stiff they bristle by Sometim......Read the rest...
Categories: dead, cancer, family, hope, how
Form: Rhyme

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