Death Elegy Poems
These Death Elegy poems are examples of Elegy poems about Death. These are the best examples of Elegy Death poems written by international poets.
Laughter in the ShadowsIn chambers filled with laughter, light, and carefree sound,
A discordant echo hangs, heavy and unbound.
A specter in the corner, draped in deep shadows,
A chilling truth...
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Categories:
anxiety, conflict, death, feelings,
A Dirge
(In memory of Uncle Thomas)
Bumpy breeze, like a blasting roar
That day when you did soar without an oar
Twenty-two years of sorrow, too long
For many years,...
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Categories:
dark, death, depression, sick,
RIP Junior PopeR.I.P JUNIOR POPE
~~~~~~~~~
In sombre silence & mournful melody,
A threnody for one who passed on sadly,
Who lost his life without a life jacket,
Crashed without precaution...
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Categories:
1st grade,
Her Wedding DayBased upon an entry in the mid-19th Century autobiography of Presbyterian Theodore Clapp, who lived for several decades in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Of the many young...
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Categories:
death, family, grief, heartbreak,
Love Letter of SummerBy Cherbo Geeplay
Summer is yet to come and may
never come. She's stirring in an
August noon, sitting on the long
plateaus of these fields so far
...
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Categories:
appreciation, black african american,
No Time to Say GoodbyeShe slowly began to slip away,
Then suddenly she was gone.
At 1:00 am she could not stay
And died hours before dawn.
She died too fast...
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Categories:
death, lost love, wife,
An Elegy for a Fallen Bridge: Baltimore’s Night of TragedyAs night draped its cloak over Baltimore's sleeping form,
A cargo ship, the MV Dali, sailed to greet the dawn.
From the bustling harbor shores it had...
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Categories:
death, horror,
I Demand Justice For Ryan Gainer DeathI demand Justice,
For the world's hatred, a blight,
Justice for the innocent's tragic plight,
Where evil prospers in the night,
Like shadows dark, obscuring...
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Categories:
11th grade, dedication, kid,
FOR IFY ON MAMA IFY
By Izunna Okafor
Dear, Ify, I with a heavy heart,
Join to mourn Ma Caroline's tender depart.
Her love, a warm sun, now dimmed from our...
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Categories:
death,
Shanquella's Sanpaku TaleEyes! Doleful and lonely as they quietly penetrate my soul
In their silence, I can hear clamorous rumblings of a tale that pleads to be...
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Categories:
angst, betrayal, bullying, dark,
Looking Through to TartarusHarpies shrieked and lost souls wailed
The cold wind stung as embers sailed
A fetid stench, eyes red with dust
When I looked through to Tartarus.
Black column’s rose...
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Categories:
christian, death, death of
Purity(for CFD, 1944–2023)
Something blinked inside my soul
I used to be half but now I’m whole
To me, the diamond ring is coal –
That’s purity of...
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Categories:
dad, death, father, loss,
Left Behind“How exactly, my love, am I to die well?”
The question croaked - a ghostly whisper;
from her lingering mouth
of rotten teeth and wretched lips;
broken by...
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Categories:
death, grief, longing, loss,
When Leaving Morphs to GrievingThough it is time to say goodbye,
I will abide my heart and try
Not to collapse and maudlin cry,
For there is a burning need that I
Cannot...
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Categories:
grief, how i feel,
Categories:
elegy, angel, bereavement, death, devotion,