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Death Free Verse Poems

These Death Free Verse poems are examples of Free Verse poems about Death. These are the best examples of Free Verse Death poems written by international poets.


As My Body Rots
As I succumb to the wounds you've inflicted
gasping for air, for life,
eyes bloodshot, cheeks wet,
Will you love me then?

My cold, bloodied body will lay lifeless...

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Categories: conflict, dark, heartbreak, love,



My trauma
Trauma

Trauma. My lifemate. The hell of fate
Trauma. I got it from the English psychology
Trauma. I live with that, burden and pain

Trauma. I live with that,...

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Categories: death, life,

Premium Member SEPARATED AT BIRTH
In the process of 
Knowing you
He came to talk
So interesting
With speech
While my mate walked
...with you

Alone, it seemed
Uninterested in me
He lodged with beasts
I preferred beauty
And the...

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Categories: love,

Premium Member Shadow Visitor
Death sits docilely, patiently vigilant of me
Waits wordless on a weighted vinyl chair, visits the restroom, holds coffee
Is this love? 
People are strange, faith say...

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Categories: death, strength,

Premium Member On Into Better Times For Living
Times for living
Times for dreaming
Resting between times.

So do our days pass
As we were taught to expect
Earth connected; Earth bonded.

      ...

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Categories: adventure, creation, dream, life,



Of Mice and Men
I am a mouse, catatonic with fear;
just trying to stay still and silent,
to survive.

Batted about by an indifferent cat;
for him a lazy afternoon,
for me an...

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Categories: anger, death, grief, loss,

Premium Member MOST REVEREND ARCH BISHOP CARDINAL JEROME LISTEKI
OTETS THE MANY DAYS AND NIGHT YOU LENT ME YOUR 
DIVINE EAR THROUGH PRAYER DURING HARDSHIP TIMES 
AND ILLNESS RAISING MY GRANDDAUGHTER KEEPING HER 
SAFE...

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Categories: america, angel, miracle, seasons,

Appearances
The distress... fatigue, combined with restlessness, tossing, and turning. Assuming I possess more energy than I truly do because what is worse, exhausting oneself or...

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Categories: city, cry, dark, death,

Premium Member When silence speaks
Somber clouds form - rain spits. 
His mother clenches freshly laid soil,
screaming his name. Three crows glare.
His daughters, shivering, hold each other,
their gaunt eyes, still sore...

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Categories: death, suicide,

Backwards Spells of FEAR Part I
so easy to fall, and so hard to break free

somehow as a child I knew
it was as if they knew my name before I had...

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Categories: abuse, addiction, child, fear,

Premium Member Circling Graphite
When silence speaks
Nothing is heard.
Our breathe is a like a secret
Window, hotly working.
You squinting at a friend and
Trying not to giggle.
Or writing long exams in...

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Categories: peace,

Grief
Grief holds me in bed
Beats me down
Destroys my mind
I can't bring myself to face it....

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Categories: bereavement, cry, dark, death,

Mein kampf synonymous as a blooper
Mein kampf synonymous as a blooper

Writer of these words,
a former Lower Providence inhabitant,
who dwelled within darkest depths
of Dante Alighieri's inferno
for most of his outlandish, impish,
and...

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Categories: 12th grade, abuse, adventure,

Whispers of the Forgotten
In the shadowed alcove of memory, Where forgotten dreams curl like smoke, I wander, a spectral seeker, Tracing the edges of existence.

The moon, a pale...

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Categories: age, anxiety, death, destiny,

When Death Stopped for Me
Because I could not escape from Life –  
It rudely dragged me forth –  
The chaos swirled, consuming all –  
And Oblivion,...

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Categories: age, cry, destiny, endurance,


Book: Shattered Sighs