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Death Free Verse Poems

These Death Free Verse poems are examples of Free Verse poems about Death. These are the best examples of Free Verse Death poems written by international poets.

I Am Fearless

I am becoming.

I am shedding skin to
Divest.

I am developing.

I am no longer preparing
For something. 

I am depending on myself
To know when it's time
To cut the...

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Categories: allusion,

Stardust

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Do not mourn me,
     I am stardust.

I am the universe,
     the universe is me.

I am the sand...

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Categories: absence, death, grief,

This Greyling Sallow Place

Gloomy dismal, and forlorn... 
that's how this day was borne
in a Greyling sallow place 
where death doth reign
without a face.

In a boneyard of decaying flesh,
one...

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Categories: sad, silence,

Incarnate


Angels are unable to handle 
these 'Sylvia Plath' sorrows,
hiding their halos -
mute to my concerns.

Love has abandoned me,
left me to decay in an open grave,
where...

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Categories: angst, dark, pain,

The Fragile Heart

The tenderness of the fragile heart,
Resembles a historic yet dramatic,
Work of art as seen through the ages.
The portrait never shows broken hearts,
Devastation of death or...

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Categories: beautiful, bereavement, cry, devotion,

The Wren

Lonely lies to myself 
A string of hope 
Clung to, hung to 
Like the rope I'll use 
When the time it comes 
A soaring, sweet...

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Categories: bird, death, depression, grief,

All That Rises Must Fall

Her spring returns to me, in death,
I shed a tear, alone, 
for the weeping blossoms,
in the knowledge a moon will rise again,
before the rhythm of...

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Categories: creation, death, extended metaphor,

Are You Living?


He brings light to the earth.
He shines His light across the soul.
With a gentle light, in colors we love,
Reflecting mercy, inspiration, faith…

	Silent dreams, quiet hopes
		Prayers...

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Categories: appreciation, blessing, christian, faith,

What is the truth, merely a reality one minute to the next aka snapping out of it

start writing-she said
   as if she knew 
  about the contents
           ...

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Categories: angst,

The Finish Line

Betrothed to your hollow headlines written in the speech bubbles on my phone screen
Enough is enough when I discover that I want a hologram of...

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Categories: life,

Elderness

Elderness

(Mainly.)

Make
Time
Fly!

Or...

Don't have too much fun.

So? ...or Too?

Too/So?

Don't have SO much FUN?!

What a WASTE
Of TIME.

Thanks.

-Gray Squirrel

05-03-2024...

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Categories: age, death, desire, heart,

pink hair and motorcycles

you remember that one time when ava fell off the swings and cut her knee?
how everyone laughed at her for her childish hubris in thinking...

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Categories: first love, i love

A Hooked Fish

Nervous I sat,
waiting to be called.
I wasn’t sure what it was he said,
but it meant a lot to me.
Then I realized,
he was not talking to...

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Categories: me, scary, spoken word,

In the garden of eternity, where the spirit blooms like a vine of mystery

In the garden of eternity, where the spirit blooms like a vine of mystery,
We tread, unknowingly, on steps of time hidden beneath olive branches.
As the...

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Categories: fantasy,

What did I do?

What did I do?

I don’t understand my life
I don’t understand the Life
I am suffering a lot
Day by day and day to day
When will this be...

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Categories: life, love,