Poems about Death

• Acne Scars

  by rhetorica 213 words, 2 comments, 1 hour ago. In Adult, Personal, Death
• Cut Glass

  We rolled joints and bought whiskey.She drove to Glasgow from Edinburgh.I drank.She smoked.The trip took fifty minutes.I got drunk and she

  by rhetorica 165 words, 8 comments, 1 day ago. In Life, Personal, Death
• The Executioner

  The wind blew roughly about my face / Cold, dry and howling about / Losing all touches of its usual grace / / My dark cape flapped beneath

  by vjthapa 270 words, 2 comments, 2 days ago. In Dark, Fantasy, Pain, Death, Sadness, Loss, Lost love
• Craftwork

  It appears this sin is Stockholm Syndrome
  The love of the Lord is the lust of the victim

  by mr backwards 172 words, 2 comments, on Jan 5 11:40 PM. In Atheist, Angst, Rant, Religion, Suicide, Spiritual, Society, Dark, Death, Abuse, Rage
• Steady runnin'

  I try to hide it, but everybody knows

  by crazydiamond23 121 words, on Jan 2 1:58 PM. In Death, frustration, giving up
• So Hard

  Living life is just so hard / When you feel like the future won’t matter / And like the past will never fade / And the present just seems to worsen each day / / When crying to G-d to take it all away hasn’t worked / And believing that things

  by oxymoron270 126 words, 1 comment, on Dec 24 3:40 PM 2008. In Personal, Sad, Life, Thoughts, Rant, Free verse, Pain, Depression, Death, Sadness
• Cardboard Lantern

  I answer the door to / five young Victorian orphans / singing Silent Night / then the smallest one / who has no teeth / drops her cardb

  by rhetorica 164 words, on Dec 21 7:21 AM 2008. In Life, Love, Death
• Sad story

  

  by courage is hope 121 words, 2 comments, on Dec 18 4:09 PM 2008. In Dark, Sad, Anger, Death, Pain, Sadness, Loss
• Every Step is a Centimeter

  by Nocturne 104 words, 9 comments, on Dec 17 9:41 PM 2008. In Sad, Spiritual, Life, Personal, Nature, Death
• [Untitled]

  / It’s dark. So dark, like a night without a moon. / I can’t see. I can’t hear. I can’t feel. / My senses have abandoned me. / They’ve left me with nothing but my empty mind. / A darkness looms above me, a black cloud of fury. / My body be

  by SamanthaShaw 272 words, on Dec 16 1:16 AM 2008. In Free verse, Death, Love
• We'll Rain Blood On Your Parade

  You sit there and play happy families, / Smiles all around. / Colour and joy just filling the Earth, / Perfect clear skies. / Animals and flowers of beautiful gardens, / The sun shining. / We’ll rain blood on this parade. / / But you

  by xSceneGirlx 180 words, 1 comment, on Dec 14 3:33 PM 2008. In Dark, Depression, Suicide, Family, Loss, Pain, Death, Sadness, Other, Sad, Hate
• Swimming With Sparks

  I smiled as he dragged me down, / As the waters filled with light, / Under a blue violet sky. / / I might have screamed. / Probably tried to escape, at first, / Like we all do. / / 'Til my struggle ceased / And my fingers waved of the

  by Another Blue Moon 261 words, 2 comments, on Dec 9 11:31 PM 2008. In free verse, drowning, death, thoughts
• Why did this war every start?

  I look at the wide out ocean / Seeing where you are / Remembering the times / We shared together / But then you left / For the war / To defend the country / But you left me / Alone to / Defend me by myself / No one to protect me / To

  by courage is hope 110 words, 3 comments, on Dec 6 10:43 PM 2008. In Sad, Rant, Hate, Sadness, Anger, Loss, Death, War
• Screaming Trash

  My Unheard screams on deaf ears,
  will you read, so someone hears?

  by LifeIsIronic 176 words, 11 comments, on Dec 4 6:24 PM 2008. In Sad, Dark, Society, Thoughts, Rhyme, Rant, Death, Sadness
• Free Fall,

  Free Falling over this..

  by LifeIsIronic 229 words, 4 comments, on Dec 4 5:13 AM 2008. In Dark, Thoughts, Society, Weird, Fantasy, Other, Death, Pain, Loss, Imagery
• Will We Survive?

  A very strange poem I came up with when I was bored.

  by smitty24118 163 words, 4 comments, on Dec 1 7:55 PM 2008. In Free verse, Dark, Sad, Weird, Death
• For Mom

  by AeroNex 37 words, on Nov 22 2:14 PM 2008. In Dark, Sad, Life, Loss, Death
• North Park Bridge

  by AeroNex 80 words, 1 comment, on Nov 22 1:54 PM 2008. In Free verse, Dark, Society, Contemporary, Adult, Death, Depression, Perception
• Bury It

  Bury it, / Bury it, / I'm telling myself to bury this pain / That's coming out. / You can't chandra you can't / Just bury it / it will be ok soon. / / I don't think it will, / I can't keep hiding it / I can't / It's killing me

  by shadow2050 342 words, 2 comments, on Nov 19 1:39 PM 2008. In Sad, Personal, Life, Depression, Death, Sadness
• Broken Promises

  Promises / Broken, / Shattered on the floor / You can't fix them / Can't replace them. / / That one promise / I believed / That one pro

  by shadow2050 120 words, 1 comment, on Nov 19 8:10 AM 2008. In Love, Depression, Sad, Life, Thoughts, Sadness, Death, Pain
• 73 Seconds

  See if anyone knows what this is about. I'll tell you in the notes at the end.

  by DebraLynn 183 words, 17 comments, on Nov 14 3:50 AM 2008. In Free verse, Contemporary, Death
• At the Seashore

  Written when a teenager because a friend challenged me to write a poem on a subject she chose.

  by DebraLynn 139 words, 2 comments, on Nov 12 3:04 AM 2008. In Love, Sad, Rhyme, Pain, Death
• Tribute

  Written after seeing my grandfather's grave when my grandmother was still alive.

  by DebraLynn 75 words, 4 comments, on Nov 11 7:56 PM 2008. In Free verse, Love, Personal, Death, Loss
• The Little Boy

  Song Inspired

  by courage is hope 149 words, 6 comments, on Nov 8 11:58 AM 2008. In Dark, Sad, Pain, Death, Depression, Sadness, Hate, Loss
• The Quest

  We invite you to come on a journey of the mind.
  

  by Brian Balzer 503 words, 14 comments, on Nov 8 4:23 AM 2008. In Weird, Fantasy, Thoughts, Imagery, Abstract, Perception, Death, Life, Free verse. Reward
• Death

  by rhetorica 435 words, 8 comments, on Nov 1 10:51 PM 2008. In Adult, Death
• First Episode

  a poem about second chances and learning from what life hands you

  by gingerhall1976 629 words, 24 comments, on Nov 1 8:57 PM 2008. In Personal, Sad, Life, Pain, Death, Depression, Sadness, Loss, Anguish, Family
• The Body's Still Here

  She lies there like a broken doll / She took her life to stop the pain / The pain far to much for her to bare / Life is gone but the body's still here / / Her parents sit there, faces grim / They had no idea she hurt so bad / They had no id

  by BJ Colvin 105 words, 1 comment, on Oct 22 10:52 PM 2008. In Sad, Depression, Death, Suicide
• My Letter

  My Letter / / I got The Letter. / The one that God should have never written. / With my name and his base address. / U.S. Army seal solomnly printed at the top of the lonely / paper. / "Ms. Carolyn Sullavin," they said to me, / "We regret

  by facethejam 251 words, 3 comments, on Oct 19 7:57 PM 2008. In War, Contemporary, Free verse, Death
• In Passing

  Weep for me no longer / for I have gone away. / Left my body lying / resting in a grave. / I no longer need it / my spirit was set free. / There simply is no reason / for you to cry for me. / Cry for times we will not share / if you feel

  by Brian Balzer 90 words, 2 comments, on Oct 16 10:23 AM 2008. In Life, Death, Perception, Rhyme