Death Elegy Poems
These Death Elegy poems are examples of Elegy poems about Death. These are the best examples of Elegy Death poems written by international poets.
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...
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death, grave, grief,
How do you tell them their little girl will die?I am 15 years old.
They say my mind is scattered stars,
too many, too bright, too far apart.
A sky that sparkles wildly,
never settling into constellations.
I try....
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10th grade, death, deep,
Fondest FarewellEre break of day and dawns caress
Till sunset lays our cares to rest
We march and toil to gain what's true
With burdens many, respites few
And labor...
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appreciation, death, eulogy,
The Cold Embrace of DeathHeinous are the horrors in the rages of war
after it makes its purchase of pawns.
Brave are those following orders with a salute.
Some will never...
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angst, death, fear,
Grocery Store GriefI look to my right
And there’s a bin of stuffed animals just like the one you bought me
I look to my left
And there’s your favorite...
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9th grade, death, funeral,
PRONOUNCED THE VESSEL DEAD-
The bright in the daylight beacons shine;
Beating hearts no longer a lined;
The doctor M.E. has pronounced the vessel dead;
Sorely he bled out after being pierced...
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analogy, anxiety, death, destiny,
My Winter, Your Summerthe snow
undissolved
amid my heart
wanders eternal
as does my avidity
its difficult to accept
“to move on to forget”
six feet yet unreachable
how will this feeling melt
my everything lost tomorrow
‘we’...
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absence, analogy, angst, death,
Elegy of Divine Cross
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The bell the Town Courier want to toll
To salute the day of reckoning in Getham City
Is now on the neck of the scary-witty cat her...
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elegy, christian, devotion, life, symbolism,
love me pleasePerhaps I’ll tear my eyes away
Let my crimson spill and stray
Sew my wounds with piercing thread
If you’d love me though I bled
Death does not seem...
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angst, appreciation, crazy, dark,
An Elegy About a School ShootingPrologue:
A new kid joins an already troubled elementary school
He sits alone on the first day, and no one dares to sit next to him
For if...
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cry, dark, death, deep,
At The GraveyardTears of fears drip from all that gather
A mystery lyes ahead as the coffin lowers
Sleep smiles on show to see
Some can’t hind...
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bereavement, dark, death, farewell,
For The Lady I Never KnewI shed tears today for a lady I never knew
For so long my emotions faced exemption
My life, created in lieu of a tragic encounter, grew
At...
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Categories:
death, in memoriam,
The SurvivorsForever gone, forever we understand
The pain lingers on, stronger beyond
The thud of agony and the memory
Captures the groans of a desperate cry
Laid in a little...
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anger, bereavement, death, emotions,
The etheral nightIt's darkness of the etheral night,
But still the lantern light.
I somber in my beloved's laps,
Who no longer "smells like life".
...
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10th grade, death, deep,
HeyHey
I’ve still got words to say,
I’m sorry I failed you that day,
And the guilt doesn’t go away.
I’d give my last dime-
To hear your voice...
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Categories:
anniversary, christian, death,