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Death Verse Poems

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


Thespians Tragedy :Love's Silent Stage
Today, upon this stage, an actress must 
Perform a tale of love and woe. 
Many roles in past, she played and executed well
But in the...

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Categories: verse, 12th grade, character, feelings,



Would the World be a Better Place Without Pain?
I live life for myself, 
But I also live for those who did not get to. 
For those who have gone through the same struggles...

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Categories: verse, death, deep, depression, emo,

Premium Member Letter to a best friend
My lost friend for years,
I spent many days trying to find you.
I don't even know when we lost our communication,
but it happened. Perhaps we were...

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Categories: verse, allusion, best friend, blessing,

Premium Member The Raven and The Bard
The Raven and the Bard
-Daniel Henry Rodgers

The Raven's quill drips shades of blackest night,
Its haunting words, a melody of fright.
The Bard's natural lines, like "Evangeline's"...

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Categories: verse, philosophy, poets, psychological,

Premium Member Sevens, Shovels and Spades
Sevens, Shovels, and Spades

Dig, dig, dig. Black soil and stone
Earth worms wiggle , Decay bones

Dig, dig, dig, scatter seeds there
Sprouting, searching sun and air

Dig, dig,...

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Categories: verse, death, farm, garden, grave,



Premium Member It isn't though it is
Nothing to see so little to hear
speak and be silenced.
Smells peculiar...
Are my thoughts even mine?
Everything is glorious in the shadows of night
Bright lights that dim...

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Categories: verse, political, social, world,

silent cathedral
My shadowed heart a silent cathedral
Only abandoned asylum have ground
Oh twilight lady fingers made of ravens
Carrying all the forgotten memories, unspoken dreams
Haunted church bell rings,...

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Categories: verse, anxiety, cry, death, evil,

inception
Inception 

A near accident almost run over by a train
old heart, she collapsed in my arms
wrapped her in a blanket, looked asleep
we drove thro' the  long...

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Categories: verse, abortion, absence, addiction, betrayal,

Premium Member Requiem for a Motherless Child
I was buried in a tomb for unknown persons.
When I was alive I knew nothing of this life.
Now that I'm dead I seem to have...

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Categories: verse, baby, death,

Premium Member IF ONLY YOU KNEW
Your sultry sensual look I still embrace
As I think of those mesmerizing violet eyes,
My heart then quickens and starts to race,
If only you knew what...

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Categories: verse, love,

sykehus
Sykehus 

The old hospital in the town center 
stark and unpainted
Dotted about in the near vicinity 
Funeral homes look like pearls 
around an elderly lady's neck  
at every election cycle...

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© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: verse, absence, abuse, age, betrayal,

Premium Member Guns and Roses
It was 1986 I was setting in after giving 
birth to my first son after wearing wires 
pregnant for the FBI buying large amounts 
of...

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Categories: verse, chicago, integrity, poems, power,

Siren Sing For Me
Too many sailors who have lived to tell,
Her siren song permeates,
day by day it fell.
Luring in ships to crash,
break,
splinter on cliffs,
She masters ethereal crescendos,
opera riffs.

Each...

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Categories: verse, dark, death, gothic, horror,

BEAUTIFUL THINGS
The sun leads the day
The moon controls the night
The stars, harmonize in the skies,
A light night to render.
A cold breeze blows over my skin,
My eyes...

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Categories: verse, nature,

SILENT DEATH
Silent tears filled her broken heart
Her emotions and feelings were torn apart
She could have become more
Yet society and its notions forbid her from making the...

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Categories: verse, mental health, women,


Book: Shattered Sighs