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.
Belly-up at Dawn
Radio’s on loud at the crack of dawn
though it blared to the full moon too
A couple of fans whir all day
...
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Categories:
death, fish, senses, youth,
Form: Couplet
The Folly of GodsWhat grand overture preceeds death
When the past is prologue to life
What omnipotent power's breath
Gives life to our struggle and strife
Ask who will come to our defense
As we battle against the odds
What will sustain...
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Categories:
death, life,
Form: Rhyme
Sleeping pills that feeding fills
My mouth is full of fizzy liquid,
my toungue is tickling vivid.
Even though my dark circles under the eye,
are deep within my following breath, they lie.
The ground is scretchy,
Are with the bathroom one matchy.
The cold shrouded...
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Categories:
death,
Form: Free verse
Rotten Fruitlet
Fruitlet is dangling on branches of trees.
Trees’ branches bearing leaves.
Leaves, green, yellow or brown dwindling.
Dwindling due to vicious strong winds raging.
At the tree’s foot, rotten leaves and fruit snooze.
Leaves snoozing dead fertilize the earth.
Earth to...
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Categories:
abuse, death, environment, natural
Form: Free verse
Lilith, Finale MoonZenith swirls of black rose petals,
burst into a flock of circling crows,
descending ash and rain on my frozen form.
Viscera and scarlet pools flash,
feet running of a child,
car screeching tires with broken glass.
Piano motif grave into...
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Categories:
beautiful, change, dark, death,
Form: Bio
FillipFull of life but barely breathing
Bleary with the way your brown eyes shine
Rising like smoke, dark fur streams through
And gently dances like the fire
Fillip was a boy, a dog, driven away...
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Categories:
death, dog, goodbye,
Form: Rhyme
Misses MadHatterDrag blade into coliseum gates red,
crimson armor and black carbon metal,
adore my frame as a scarlet knight bred.
Toothy grin, Cheshire eyes, test thy mettle.
Burst petals onyx
Shockwave from footfall rumbles
It’s a massacre
Titan comes through the open...
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Categories:
dark, death, gothic, metaphor,
Form: Haiku
Family Reunion Breast beat for her I doubt you fathom crude
Understand thus gravitas of thy actions true
This must entrust you knot the thread bear
Bang thy drum roll knees follow you we share
Needless pain inflicted as I stroked...
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Categories:
crazy, dark, daughter, death,
Form: Prose
Birth of the Word WitchWhat say you naive with all your poultice,
foolish fervor to your reverie!?”
“Mark me damned...
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Categories:
dark, death, evil, gothic,
Form: Free verse
Acts of Horror Gets HorrorEyeless it manifested from the depths of the abyssal darkness of the woods.
Hide reflective more muscle almost fleshless ribbon peeled back skull necklace.
Limbs contort and pop grotesque as it moves closer permeated hiss from its...
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Categories:
dark, death, dog, gothic,
Form: Rhyme
A dogs unconditional loveMy childhood was meant for innocent adventures,
Climbing trees and chasing dreams, not living traumatic ventures.
But you stole that blissful promise with your heinous deeds,
Planting seeds of fear only a shattered soul...
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Categories:
death, abuse, bereavement, betrayal, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Would the World be a Better Place Without Pain?I live life for myself,
But I also live for those who did not get to.
For those who have gone through the same struggles but didn’t see the silver lining,
For those who couldn’t...
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Categories:
death, deep, depression, emo,
Form: Free verse
Sevens, Shovels and SpadesSevens, Shovels, and Spades
Dig, dig, dig. Black soil and stone
Earth worms wiggle , Decay bones
Dig, dig, dig, scatter seeds there
Sprouting, searching sun and air
Dig, dig, dig, To hide our dead
Six feet under, body bed
Dig, dig,...
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Categories:
death, farm, garden, grave,
Form: Free verse
silent cathedralMy shadowed heart a silent cathedral
Only abandoned asylum have ground
Oh twilight lady fingers made of ravens
Carrying all the forgotten memories, unspoken dreams
Haunted church bell rings, the darkest emotion in me
Sitting on fallen leaves under craziest...
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Categories:
anxiety, cry, death, evil,
Form: Free verse
Requiem for a Motherless ChildI was buried in a tomb for unknown persons.
When I was alive I knew nothing of this life.
Now that I'm dead I seem to have acquired it all.
My heartless mother abandoned me, unwanted,
Left me on...
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Categories:
baby, death,
Form: Free verse
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