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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.


Premium Member 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,



Premium Member On Last Call
            Just trying to realise own existence !
      ...

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Categories: death,

Premium Member Love
"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. The word is love.” 
~ Sophocles, Greek Poet

Oh, Love. Where travels thou diminishing...

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Categories: death, depression, emotions, life,

Washing The Feet
Stewards 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 Communes
The 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,



Premium Member The Quicksand of Thought
Like 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 Inside
There 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,

Premium Member 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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Categories: sonnet, adventure, anxiety, appreciation, beauty,

O let my Old Age be Mellow
Thou 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,

Premium Member 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,

Wistful
I felt alone, though there were multiple crowds around me.
I felt, I should go to a lonely place and cry aloud.
Why, though the environs are...

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Categories: death, friend, longing, nostalgia,

What The Roses Don't Say
What The Roses Don’t Say
by Michael R. Burch

Oblivious to love, the roses bloom
and never touch ... They gather calm and still
to watch the busy insects...

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Categories: angst, fear, lost love,

Premium Member Penitent
If I should wake to live another day
my soul would surely burst with boundless joy.
On pious knee I would fervently pray,
repentant soul would actively deploy.
A...

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Categories: death, forgiveness, joy, life,

Uninspired Sonnet
You feel that tension deep within your soul,
momento mori, you are on a clock,
inside are many stories to be told,
but within your mind they seem...

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Categories: creation, how i feel,


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