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.
From Pompeii
He appeared out of nowhere and convinced me to sit with him for a drink.
His eyes were wide and glistening, his brow - of the knowledge within.
I asked him his name and where he had...
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Categories:
death, fate, fear, for
Form: Free verse
Second SkinI keep stepping outside myself
This deviation necessary
I always wanted to be someone else
I'm growing a second skin
Still me underneath but I've been cloaked in rage and grief
These scales are heavy
But I'll carry them
The world weighed...
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Categories:
death, grief,
Form: Free verse
The Old SoldierThe picture stared down at the old man
Good times, friends for life
The decomposing body was in its second year now
The dust and webs had cloaked him like a blanket
Giving him comfort that life denied him
Time...
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Categories:
death, soldier,
Form: Free verse
Feeling UnwonderfulThe thick forest's hill with wild flowers
rolls through perfumed daises meadows,
that are a haven to lovely hummingbirds:
among thick trees there no waterfowls!
These colorful birds avoid eerie darkness,
they wake up at the appearance of light;
they can't...
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Categories:
anger, beauty, conflict, death,
Form: Rhyme
nothingnessmass austerity
within singularity
there's no clarity
flickers in darkness
motion overcomes starkness
throws off death's harness
gravity freeing
nothingness begets being
one lost in fleeing
the movement divides
that which expansion decides
existence abides
spawns evolution
universal solution
until conclusion
all lost in own space
seeking to fill everyplace
in outward...
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Categories:
change, creation, death, life,
Form: Haiku
The Government Killed My Dog
This is basically the update regarding the toxins and my dog.
She was a happy girl, by my side 24 hours a day for 10 and half years
We walked every day, inspiring many of my...
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Categories:
angst, death, dog,
Form: Narrative
The PlaintiffHe enters the room with raw emotions as he reflects on the commotion that lead him to file the case, he had blood dripping from his eyes and he swore to get the man that...
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Categories:
death, beauty, betrayal, business, change,
Form: Narrative
till death does us partI suppose we all have a lengthened life,
some alone,
some kind,
some hard fought,
some short,
and some long
And we all deal with death in a different way,
some deal with it by not caring,
some by showing how they crumble,
some...
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Categories:
death, 8th grade, absence, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
DON'T CRY ANY TEARS AROUND MEDON'T CRY ANY TEARS AROUND ME
Don't cry no tears around me
As I passed away and now I'm finally free
You won't see me anymore
But this soul of mine will always soar
So please don't cry any tears...
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Categories:
death, emotions, father son,
Form: Rhyme
The Jeopardy SuitIf there was a suit
A suit of sensors
Aware of your actions
Following your mind, your movements
A jeopardy suit
That killed you with a lethal injection
When an imaginary galleon hit you with cannon fire
Or you clipped a stealth...
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Categories:
death, philosophy, science fiction,
Form: Free verse
LOVE RECALL TRUE STORYA woman journeyed to the island of Jamaica in the West Indies
The island of be happy and don’t worry
First thing the woman did was laid on the beach
Soaked up some sun
There were many people among
The...
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Categories:
adventure, betrayal, body, death,
Form: Rhyme
NightmareLow below the foaming seam,
Slowly grows a bright red gleam,
Only known in my own dreams,
Lonely drone of evil schemes.
It swims fast, it wont last,
But right now it's forever,
It kills me, it always sees,
Let me go?...
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Categories:
dark, death, fear, how
Form: Rhyme
The Other SideDeath kissed me on the cheek
and said I could remain
I still had time to keep
but she’d be back again
For death she is a woman
A fickle fearsome foe
There amidst the shadows
Impossible to know
I said “You’re not...
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Categories:
conflict, courage, death, encouraging,
Form: Quatrain
Fears above my earsWelcome to the house of nightmares and fears
All of it lives above my ears
My thoughts run here and my thoughts run there
None of it will ever, ever be fair
I always imagine the worst will happen
Like...
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Categories:
anxiety, dark, death, fear,
Form: Rhyme
To have a pretty friend like youto gaze the beauty of heart within
to dwell in the aura of dawning hue
with respecting the vow of love,apart
to have a pretty friend like you
to dye the wilted flower within
neither too flowery ,nor too new
to...
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Categories:
art, dance, death, dedication,
Form: Rhyme
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.
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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