Best Suicide Poems
Below are the all-time best Suicide poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of suicide poems written by PoetrySoup members
Starry Starry Night - POTWPOTW
When Wishes were made on a shooting star
The Heavens looked down and smiled
With sprinkles of stardust on a whisper of moonbeams
They created for us a...
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Categories:
suicide, anti bullying, art, beauty,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Her Masterpiece Is Her StoryHer paintbrush is a razor,
Her canvas, her wrists,
"I deserve the pain."
She shrugs and insists.
One day the brush will push down,
And it will cut so deep,
That...
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Categories:
suicide, abuse, addiction, anger, body,
Form:
Rhyme
I See You Says the MoonThey'll have you believe she was lost to the sea,
But the moon would beg to differ.
She was always lost,
Always looking for which way to go.
Or...
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Categories:
moon, sea, suicide,
Form:
Free verse
Unsure the ShoreGrim fog, I praise the shelter of your drear,
the sundown ghost morose not grandiose,
I walk alone - but, no -- with my despair;
a bittern bids...
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Categories:
suicide, 8th grade, beach, bereavement,
Form:
Sonnet
Dry MascaraDRY MASCARA
Nobody sees through the shadow and the color of my eyes
The times I've cried are the only time you notice the trace down my...
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Categories:
suicide, cry, deep, depression, grief,
Form:
Alliteration
Bloody WristsI'm sitting on the floor
I'm crying so much more
trying to erase this pain
trying to forget your face
sitting here with the blade in my hand
running so...
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Categories:
suicide, abuse, boyfriend, bullying, depression,
Form:
I do not know?
I Slipped On a Tear DropI s l i p p e d on a teardrop and landed in her arms. She never knew how much I needed...
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Categories:
death, sister, suicide,
Form:
Haibun
Fearful and PerplexedFading sun elaborates
Tuscan yellow tinges
As vibrancy floats
Lavender on periwinkle
Embossing clouds
In shades of amethyst
Granting scenic vision
Atop the red bridge
Suspended in perpetuity
From vermilion towers
In resplendent posture
Sounding...
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Categories:
nature, suicide, sunset,
Form:
Free verse
Even the Angels WeptThe day you died you took me with you,
The way you lied shook me black and blue.
The sorrow you felt, I sure felt it too,
The...
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Categories:
angel, cry, depression, suicide,
Form:
Couplet
There Lies ArtThe easel beholds a half finishing painting
The paints beside have all hardened
Pain reflected in the partial emptiness
Staring back at that gathered crowd
The sun melts on...
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Categories:
suicide, art, death, drink, lonely,
Form:
Free verse
Desert DreamingA violent scene lay before me
Huddled in death, there’s Ella, Mary-belle, everywhere I could see
Swollen tongues, sunken eyes, frail bodies strewn in the hot powdery...
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Categories:
anxiety, nature, suicide,
Form:
Free verse
One Step Away From EternityAlas, I stand atop this mountain crest,
and gaze upon the valley down below;
the graveyard where your body lays at rest,
sits in the center shadowed by...
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Categories:
suicide, death, lost love, sad
Form:
Sonnet
Cutting My LossesAtmospheric grayscale mirrors my mood
where rainbow pastels are loath to intrude,
monochrome perverse looms ‘cross universe -
black powder train, mind is gun barrel gray
cold dispassionate muzzle...
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Categories:
suicide, anxiety, dark, depression, emotions,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
suicide, fear, mental illness, science,
Form:
Senryu
The Highway of RegretThe storms are raging on the rollin' sea, and on the highway of regret
Yes, I played around, was unfaithful to you, I'd change it all...
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Categories:
suicide, death, depression, drink, lost
Form:
Rhyme