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Poems About Death | Poems on the Loss of loved Ones

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
Premium Member Habemus Novum Papam
Yes, 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



Premium Member Tears of a Clown
Inspired 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
Premium Member sundays
your 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 Grave
No 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 death
This 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 Again
We 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
Premium Member POPE FRANCIS'S ASCENT
- - Pope Francis died, Thus Poorer leaving the earth and humanity in pain, While heaven, Celebrating is, for becoming richer by one saint. - - ©? Demetrios Trifiatis 23 April 2025 ...

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Categories: death, heaven, pain,
Form: Free verse
The Sad Siren Song
She 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
Embers
The 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 Leaf
Life 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
Premium Member 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 Solace
I 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

Read wonderful death poetry on the following sub-topics: 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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