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.
Samson and The Liar: ParodyYond the Book of Judges, uncover the smudges,
Samson and or Shimshon, a Nazarite vowed, son,
Delilah deceptor, Philistia's daughter,
The lipstick was preying, weight lift also praying,
The black widow spider, spun her web of desire,
Weakness met the...
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Categories:
death, analogy, beauty, betrayal, bible,
Form: Alexandrine
The Weight of TimeI feel the weight of time
Pressing down on my neck
I thought the weight of
stress would dissipate
with time
but the frosting
no longer tastes
better than the cake.
How could the snow
no longer look the same?
Santa nothing but...
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Categories:
betrayal, dark, death, fear,
Form: Prose
Lost joySorrow I cannot feel. nor the pain to which these words appeal. can ever express my deepest condolences in this “ life’s most tense moments” JOY …Oh what a joy to have had such a...
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Categories:
death,
Form: Free verse
Sensitive BehaviorLast night together baby, pains my core.
One two three four, one two three four.
La la la la la, la life is gonna stop.
La la la la la, la husk is gonna rot.
Festering in my basement,...
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Categories:
dark, death, gothic, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Calls My NameThe orb calls to me, beckons breast beat,
blood in veins permeates, face red with heat,
as I asphyxiate, am dominated, reach climax.
Each time lustful, more powerful, sensual.
I crave this fix, my only reason to exist,
addicted to...
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Categories:
death, addiction, cute love, dark,
Form: Free verse
EpiphanyReflecting its neighbourhood,
The lake water shone yellow.
Resembling a synchronisation of saturation
With the setting sun.
Seizing green colour of the grasses
The Sun painted them gold.
Gazed pines dance spectacularly,
Only awakened with Sparrows' chirps,
And Robins' melodious songs.
Perched on...
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Categories:
death, imagery, pain, sad,
Form: Free verse
Soul EaterSoul Eater
The concept of the soul was intangible and distant.
Faith and belief all that gave it substance,
weak and watery as it was. Until that wretched day…
...
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Categories:
baby, death, grief, loss,
Form: Free verse
MaybeMaybe If you knew how much you meant to me,
Maybe if you knew how much I loved you,
Maybe if you knew how much of an impact you made on my life,
Maybe if...
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Categories:
death, deep, grief,
Form: Free verse
Into The ValleySoldiers
in the fog of war
body count
a blur
Casualties
both left and right
voices
go unheard
Winners
walk a losing path
politics
in charge
Nothing changes
nothing ends
death
— the final bard
(Dreamsleep: May, 2024)
...
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Categories:
death, war,
Form: Rhyme
Where Were YouWhere were you?
____the days were dark
abyssal nights
Swallowing my love
when his soul was leaching;
fading into nothing
Where were you?
when he lied on his head,
stood with his tongue
and shed blood;his eyes
Pleading for mercy
in the filthy hands of devii
where...
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Categories:
death, prayer, solitude, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
Dark fightDemon hauls
Silent Loud screams
Unheard screams
Echoes of a silent dark room
My demons
Lark
Inside my dark mind
Trapped in my sanity
Piercing screams
Seeking refuge
Refuge from my fears
These demons
Never let it rest
I'm loosing
Loosing it all
Already evident
From these aching...
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Categories:
dark, death, depression, grave,
Form: Free verse
Diplomatic Secrets to Take to My Grave
Diplomatic Secrets to Take to My Grave
I worked for 27 years
as a US diplomat
and witnessed a lot of things
that were and are considered
secrets.
– and we are trained
to keep these secrets
secret.
and I will...
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Categories:
appreciation, death,
Form: Free verse
Thought of the day
Categories:
death, spiritual,
Form: Couplet
Art LectureI went to the art lecture
Because I knew it would
Be dark, and I could sit
In the back of the room
In back of all the backs
Of heads staring forward
At the slides shuttering by,
Oil strokes, cut...
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Categories:
death, family,
Form: Free verse
Elf and the DrawfElf and the Dwarf
In the heat of battle, amidst the clash of steel and the scent of blood, they found each other. Their gazes locked, and in that moment, all else fell away. The Elf's...
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Categories:
anger, betrayal, conflict, death,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Death Poems
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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