Short Poems About Death

#death

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#dark #grief #memorial
Short poems about death. 30 words or less, most recently published poems first.
Whackytraveler
Whackytraveler
Poem Published
15th Oct 2024 3:31pm

I loved you

Homesick for a place
That no longer exists
A past
I cannot go back
I grew up too soon
I’d give up the moon
For another day with you
I loved you
 #death   #grief 
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Vision_of_insanity
Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
11th Oct 2024 7:48pm

Governments Destroy Lives

Expatriation
Trail of Tears, ethnically cleansed
Abandoned future
 #corruption   #death   #hate   #politics   #senryu 
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Connotation
Connotation
Poem Published
9th Oct 2024 6:57am

Absinthe Minded

Froward deity
Spinning intoxication
Through candied visions
 #addiction   #alcohol   #death   #temptation   #senryu 
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Green_Arrow
Green_Arrow
Poem Published
7th Oct 2024 11:09pm

Not The Teflon Don Anymore

John Gotti thought that
he's the one Mafia don
who's untouchable...
But that's before he got booked
for Paul Castellano's death.
 #death   #dialogue   #ignorance   #nonfiction   #tanka 
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Lilliputian
Lilliputian
Poem Published
6th Oct 2024 10:50pm

If You Lived and I Died

Fascinating, isn’t it?
How life and death could change
Another’s life
How life and death could change
One’s life
So, wouldn’t it be life changing
If you lived and I died?
 #death   #grief 
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Vision_of_insanity
Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
27th Sep 2024 8:23pm

Your Demise

It takes seconds of my life to kill you forever.
 #dark   #death 
 #minimalist   #murder 
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Vision_of_insanity
Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
24th Sep 2024 1:47pm

23

He was born to die
Trying to stay positive
He was told 4 months
 #death   #illness   #senryu 
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Green_Arrow
Green_Arrow
Poem Published
19th Sep 2024 3:18am

If I Can't Have Him, No One Can!

Genevieve saw Phoebe riding Xander.
She shot them dead with a gun.
Then, she called the police.
 #death   #fiction   #home   #lover   #sex 
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Vision_of_insanity
Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
16th Sep 2024 11:35am

f**king Hell

For those I despise
Fucking hell
Beneath the skin
An open wound
Thirsty for blood, hunger for flesh
Scattered carnage
Wriggling torsos
Pungent, infested disease
Brain candy for dessert
Vomiting repugnance
To die again
 #dark   #death 
 #evil   #fiction 
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Vision_of_insanity
Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
11th Sep 2024 1:31pm

Dead

When you are alive,
dying is nothing
When you're dead, life is nothing.
 #dark   #death   #senryu 
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Vision_of_insanity
Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
8th Sep 2024 8:36pm

Traveling Through

As my mind reflects
voices from within
tell me to soul search
a personal energy
that resonates
changing my perspective
as multiple beings
alert me when my time will expire
 #death   #identity   #memories 
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Vision_of_insanity
Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
30th Aug 2024 6:53pm

Death is lurking

Hear the darkness breathe
Watching every step I take
Wish you were with me
 #dark   #death   #senryu   #support   #wife 
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