Reading and writing poems about the death of a loved one are a beautiful way to deal with the emotions and trauma associated with mortality. These beautiful and inspirations poems about death help us see how others are enduring the loss of a parent, other family members, a friend, or loved one. Everyone’s experiences are different, and we cannot compare feelings, but coping with grief and death is something all must go through, and we can learn from the sadness and reactions of others expressed in poetry.
Thought of the day
Categories:
death, spiritual,
Form: Couplet
Art LectureI went to the art lecture
Because I knew it would
Be dark, and I could sit
In the back of the room
In back of all the backs
Of heads staring forward
At the slides shuttering by,
Oil strokes, cut...
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Categories:
death, family,
Form: Free verse
Elf and the DrawfElf and the Dwarf
In the heat of battle, amidst the clash of steel and the scent of blood, they found each other. Their gazes locked, and in that moment, all else fell away. The Elf's...
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Categories:
anger, betrayal, conflict, death,
Form: Free verse
ReclamationAnd so it goes
from cradle to grave
From baby’s wail
to funeral laid
We reason, ponder,
dissent, and cry
As time repeats
and years go by
Sages offer
their grand excuse
In what’s left wanting
to feed the muse
But one thing’s certain
to never change
Death recycles
—...
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Categories:
death,
Form: Rhyme
missing youI smell your body's scent
lingering on old bed sheets
even after death...
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Categories:
death,
Form: Haiku
Categories:
death, discrimination, perspective, truth,
Form: Haiku
I'll see you in my dreamsChet Atkin’s life work was profound
Mr. Guitar made Nashville’s sound
There’s no one to fret
Yet do one more set
From around his burial mound...
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Categories:
death, tribute,
Form: Limerick
Death Is BeautifulOur bodies are designed for birth and death;
our brains are subconsciously in control.
At birth, we instinctively take a breath,
without being told; we're born to our role.
Our bodies release endorphins at birth
to ease our passage, dulling...
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Categories:
death, angst, anxiety, beautiful, body,
Form: Sonnet
Bad News, Morose NewsIt’s like being hit by a meteor
Where there’s no tomorrow
It is like doomsday, really
Where everything is ugly
And absolutely nothing is pretty
I just received the bad news
That my sister-in-law had died
Suddenly and extemporaneously
Without being sick tremendously
I...
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Categories:
dark, death, death of
Form: Rhyme
how paints a poet?
(inhale)
aim, undetermined ...
what purpose do I serve?
what is poetry’s primal essence?!?
my words only
cover pages that ghost
the spaces of better intention ...
that garland upon
my brow bleeds 'neath the
clawing shadows of
naked branches, thorns twisted
and braided with the
lightness...
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Categories:
analogy, appreciation, beauty, death,
Form: Free verse
Home AgainHis trip took him across many miles
That might have seemed unending -
But he did not notice.
His flight was uneventful
And should have been quite peaceful -
But he did not notice.
The roads traversed green countryside
And might have...
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Categories:
bereavement, care, death, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
Death is just a fearful lieDeath is just a fearful lie,
A nagging fear of what is isn't.
A terrible tale of the great beyond,
Pray to your god, or his god, or hers,
Maybe a chance to die with a future.
Do as you’re...
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Categories:
death,
Form: Free verse
LIFELaughter and love ,sorrow and pain
In times both good and bad
Finding the strength to meet the day
Ending with a headstone engraved
Even after death there is life
Faith leads us so to believe
In God we trust and...
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Categories:
death, faith, hope, life,
Form: Acrostic
The PredatorDenying reality not to feel guilty,
doesn't mean being free of misery;
he sits alone, he grumbles, he detests
the pathetic glances they flash at him;
he fills his tall glass to the brim...
and spit out all the...
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Categories:
addiction, anger, death, emotions,
Form: Lyric
The PredatorDenying reality not to feel guilty,
doesn't mean being free of misery;
he sits alone and grumbles, he detests
the pathetic glances they flash at him!
He fills his tall glass to the brim...
and spit out all the untold...
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Categories:
addiction, anger, death, emotions,
Form: Lyric
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.
Definition | What is Death in Poetry?
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