Death Sonnet Poems
These Death Sonnet poems are examples of Sonnet poems about Death. These are the best examples of Sonnet Death poems written by international poets.
Sonnet to the eelsThose tender eels you rescue by the shore
bring you empty news from the deep;
they aptly sing your sunken score,
vivid sounds from the liver of your...
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Categories:
beach, depression,
Death Is BeautifulOur bodies are designed for birth and death;
our brains are subconsciously in control.
At birth, we instinctively take a breath,
without being told; we're born to our...
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Categories:
angst, anxiety, beautiful, body,
Blessed Are YouThe poor, as though dogs abandoned by masters, suffered pain.
Hungry, thirsty, and sickly, they existed like rats in drought
The cognitive compass gone, they felt a...
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Categories:
jesus,
Healing On SabbathAs apes that muddled the streams rather than quenching their thirst
Pharisees went to the temple for mischief; not to pray.
Like death-stalker scorpions, in stinging, they...
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Categories:
jesus,
Pheasant HuntingThe sun has brung out a low spinescene
against the brush housing thrush and pheasants
My father moves as death, silhouetted
A proper Shropshire lad I hang...
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Categories:
bird, death,
Love"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. The word is love." Sophocles, Greek Poet
How is the tender word love...
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Categories:
cry, day, family, food,
Love
"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. The word is love.”
~ Sophocles, Greek Poet
Love, where travels thou diminishing shade?
This...
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Categories:
death, depression, emotions, life,
Washing The FeetStewards washed the feet of their masters to make them relaxed.
Master, dignity-filled, bestow blessings on these small ones.
Did Jesus, as a master, make his disciples...
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Categories:
jesus,
Communion CommunesThe memory of an agape lasts. communion communes.
Was this why he desired to dine with his dear disciples?
It's not a meal for a meal or...
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Categories:
jesus,
The Quicksand of ThoughtLike sands of thought, a whirlpool's dizzy spins
and holes of black, where not a prayer escapes,
the gravity ~ temptation's lurid sins,
while empty vacuums fill and...
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Categories:
loss,
Thing InsideThere is a thing inside
It claws and gasps for breath
Horrid thoughts reside
Of the sweet release of death
But it is death who in wrath
Leaves me feeling...
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Categories:
break up, death, depression,
Sonnet to the Empty Grave - a Spenserian sonnet
The love of God is a priceless blessing
An affection mightier than fire
Empty grave; the saints, forever singing
To die for me was his greatest desire
Shall I...
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Categories:
mystery, religious, thanksgiving,
Sonnet 18 and me!Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate
Rough winds do shake and darling buds of May and summer's lease...
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sonnet, adventure, anxiety, appreciation, beauty,
O let my Old Age be MellowThou art to soul as sleep is to my strife,
The cheeks when look no more rosy and full,
Lips red, nor knees so sturdy...
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Categories:
death, life, old,
I saw God, but now what
Line of enquiry:
Yes, I affirm, I have seen God
But He appeared and then disappeared
This knowing that transcends mind, left me awed
But until what’s imbibed...
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Categories:
faith, spiritual,