Driving Wheels, Crosses On The Side Of The Road
Crosses on the side of the road;
Belief in passengers goes by —
Where wrecked light within flowers grow,
Crosses on the side of the road
That besides the glass window hold,
A memory's attest to time —
Crosses on the side of the road,
Belief in passengers goes by —
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Categories:
bereavement, christian, death, faith,
Form: Triolet
Habemus Novum PapamYes, indeed we have a new Pope.
I wonder, however, if we have a new hope.
As a matter of facts, we have two popes:
One is active and the other is passive,
Which means that one is inactive,
The latter was a hell of a man who shocked: folks,
Foes, rivals, parishioners and cardinals,
By resigning his post,
By becoming a different...
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Categories:
age, atheist, death, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Tears of a ClownInspired by the Iron Maiden Song, Tears of a Clown
Drinking, he recalled the Circus Grim,
and the strange world that ruined him.
He had done anything for a laugh.
Once, the magician sawed him in half.
He'd traveled the whole country round.
Now tears fall from the circus clown.
An orphan child, running from disaster,
fell into the service...
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Categories:
death, drink, grief, heartbroken,
Form: Rhyme
sundaysyour mirth warmed a room....like rich coffee
with cinnamon rolls on sundays...
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Categories:
death, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Monoku
When Grief Turns To GraveNo one told me the moment you parted.
My disheartened heart left the room the moment I turned the corner,
and saw his golden badge as he nodded in comforting dismay.
That day
My heart learned the rhythm of grief
Slow
Sickly
The kind that brings you past your knees,
and drives you six feet underground.
Who needs two burials in one day?...
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Categories:
death, grave, grief,
Form: Elegy
Words From the Grave"It's all going to be okay" he would say,
with no scent of doubt in his breath,
even as its aroma reeked from mine,
as I'd blurt out "how can you be so sure?"
I never figured out what made my dad so positive in life,
though I'm positively sure his life wasn't free from trial
and the upsetting...
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Categories:
dad, death, grave, grief,
Form: Spoken Word
This thing called deathThis thing called Death
Lay me down by the one I love
In the light from the moon above
Let me hear his quiet breath
As we face this thing called death
Let me gaze upon his face
Feel his body his warm embrace
See the way he looks at me
This is how love
is supposed to be
Lay me down by the...
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Categories:
death, love,
Form: Rhyme
In the inferno of night
a whisper of loss
a phantom lace
a ghostly touch
fingers close, cold to taste
lingers laughter
cracked bone-dry air
the clock chimes midnight
it is backward here
in this abyss of my mind
seconds falling on stone
on the graves of yesterday
hear the echoes, love, disdain
in the vacant halls
in the dark falls
a broken prayer
on lips of ash
moonlights a skeletal...
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Categories:
angst, art, death, deep,
Form: Free verse
We Shall Meet AgainWe shall meet again—
Not in this fleeting world of form,
But beyond the bends of time,
Where all roads turn to dust,
And silence hums the final rhyme.
You wandered left, I drifted right,
Chasing echoes through the night.
Yet every path, no matter how wide,
Leads gently to the other side.
If your dusk arrives before mine,
Will you wait beneath the pine?
But...
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Categories:
death,
Form: Free verse
POPE FRANCIS'S ASCENT-
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Pope Francis died,
Thus
Poorer leaving the earth and humanity in pain,
While heaven,
Celebrating is, for becoming richer by one saint.
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©? Demetrios Trifiatis
23 April 2025
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Categories:
death, heaven, pain,
Form: Free verse
The Sad Siren SongShe wore necklaces of coral,
strings of pearls embracing her body,
glinting back at the broken sunlight
scattered across the sea floor.
Her glassy eyes gazed up,
somewhat worried, somewhat mournful,
longing to leap above the waves,
to sing that chorus of birds passing by.
Longing for her voice to take flight,
uninterrupted by ships sailing by.
She wasn't born a killer;
just...
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Categories:
dark, death, fantasy, sea,
Form: Free verse
EmbersThe fire cracks and the embers brew
Whilst the stars sing as I cry and plead,
For I render you, my love
To please come back to me
As I watch you go up in flames
I’m pondering your face that’s
Burning a hole
Into my memory
This pain is just too real
I beg the fire to lie and bring you back...
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Categories:
death, grief, loss, love,
Form: Free verse
Life Is Like A LeafLife is like a leaf
Staying in high
Staying in the middle
Slowly by seasons
It changes it colors
Then, shows its beauty
Lastly, when the time comes
Well done, well drop....
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Categories:
beauty, death, fate, life,
Form: Light Verse
To Dream in Binary and Bits I.
To dream in binary and bits,
and propagate with virus-like,
electronic, image file hits.
To dream in binary and bits,
takes computer programming wits.
Like Lawnmower Man, Musk's god-like:
but Elon experiences mad fits,
when Teslas burn by fiery blitz.
II.
A.I. Chatbots, like Elon's Grok,
have smarter brainpower, logic,
and...
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Categories:
america, betrayal, corruption, death,
Form: Triolet
Lullaby of SolaceI emerge
I return
If I am not somewhere
As I am now
I am there
If I was not somewhere
I was there
And so I emerged
And I’ve returned...
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Categories:
death, absence, angst, anxiety, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Death Poems
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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