Death Poems

Poems on Death and Dying

Now here's a cheerful subject. For most people, the first two impressions that come to our minds when someone says, "poetry", are love ballads and poems about death. Our greatest poets seem somehow obsessed with death. William Shakespeare, Edgar Allen Poe, Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath. And so many more. Read on for a glimpse of what death and dying mean to contemporary Buzzle.com poets!
Poems about Death
  • What They Don't Know
    PLEASE READ!.... I didn't really know what category to put it in...
  • Not Ever
    Self descriptive.
  • The Day I Found Myself Dead
    It's about an artist, who took his art so close to his heart, that it all ended up everything falling apart.
  • Losing You
    This poem is about losing a true love and some of the pain you feel. This poem is in memory of my true love Quinton who died January 21, 2010. He was only fifteen. RIP Quinton Pitts my one true love.
  • My Thorn
    I wrote this after I lost the love of my life to someone else.
  • The Note
    Thanks for reading peeps!!
  • Corruption
    This is the story of my corrupted life.
  • Poem of a Lingering Soul
    This poem was written in memory of my frozen heart.
  • The End
    I hear everybody talkin about 2012 the end of da world so. The poem I wrote for classwork.... hope u guys enjoy... I thought it was gd so tell me wat u guys think about it ....
  • The Way To Leave
    This poem is mostly me thinking about suicide. Again. So I just let the daydream go and wrote it out on paper. Please tell me what you think of it.
  • Become One Of The Insane
    Every now and then I grab a pen and write a kickass poem. To me, anyways. :)
  • Worst Mother
    I haven't spoken to my mother in 4 years and without her my life has been great, as a child i loved her unconditionally, then I grew up. I wrote this when I was 13.
  • Autumn Rain
    Finding Love.
  • Eulogy !
    Tragic Death of a Brother.
  • Sophie R.I.P. 2
    1st anniversary of the death of Sophie. one truly amazing girl. I miss u soph ='[
  • Sophie, R.I.P.
    She was my best friend, like a sister, but I loved her. She loved me, until the day she died. R.I.P. babe. I wrote this the day she died.
  • The Lost Poem of a Lost Boy
    This is a poem I wrote while I was falling into a abyss of anger and hatred.
  • ~Welcome~
    Just a little something I wrote on one on my many sleepless nights...Comment n tell me what you think...
  • Puddle of Blood
    This poem I wrote yesterday cause I always feel like this...
  • Confusion
    A poem I wrote for English. haha.
  • Time Unseen
    I wrote this poem for a friend who wanted something dramatic and a little on the morbid side. It came out okay in my opinion and they were pleased with it. It pretty much sums up an opinion of the...
  • Life and Death are Like a Rose
    Flowers are like people.
  • The Day That I Die
    Sometimes you just can't help but wonder.
  • Death is the Ultimate Freedom
    I wrote this when I found out I was sick . All my dreams were shattered and I'm still picking up the pieces of that shattered dreams until now... Its like a spiel for me during my manic depressive...
  • Emptiness
    "Emptiness" I wrote this in 2004 ... I still fell empty until now.
  • Breaking
    Comment and ENJOY!!!! <3 Check out my other poems!
  • Are You Afraid of Dying or Death or is it Just My Dream
    Is it scary to die is it really true there's a heaven or not I don't know wat death mean ...........................................................!
  • Why?
    A poem I wrote when I was feeling depressed about a break up with a guy I thought loved me.
  • Love is Fucked
    LOLK?:)
  • Meaning Of New Day
    Why sun rise and sun set.
  • First time
    There is a first and a last.
  • Truth
    In this world there is nothing but darkness We are taught to understand that we will be alone forever
  • Teenage Depression
    A little something I wrote when I stopped taking my pills for a while.
  • Another Dark Night
    Poem... come in my heart.... if you people like then.. comment.
  • Self- Inflicted Pain
    This is a song that I wrote back in may. Hope that you like it.
  • I Died on the Ground of the Living
    I didn't feel so great, and this is what I felt.
  • Stop
    Inside your head.
  • Dreams Before Death
    Wrote this in my class as well... tell me what you think..
  • Remembered But Never Forgotten…
    I wrote this in my writing class... it's been awhile since I posted... enjoy..
  • The Pain
    Just something that I came up with one day when I was bored.
  • The Dreams
    For my ex boyfriend.
  • You've Woken Up the Demon
    This is going to be a poem of the book I'm about to write. I'm going to call it, "Waking the Demon" A few reason's, One she's a demon, second The bullet for my valentine song fits her, and...
  • Pain..
    Read and u will understand. I don't think I'm that good in writing poems so plz comment.
  • To: Paula Casimiro
    This is to a certain reader. Cause, I don't know how to tell her any other way than to post a new one.
  • Facing The Truth Part One
    About how I looked at a situation that was too late for them to fix. And, this is the first part, the second will be done soon. Please, leave comments, I do enjoy reading them.
  • All in One Day...
    It happened so fast....
  • Crimson Regrets
    This is a song that I wrote one day. It is sad but one of my favorites.
  • Breaking Me Down Only Gets You So Far
    The feeling of being, Be littled. I'm tired of the look a person gives me.
  • Free
    Just read it and u mite understand.
  • Never Looking Back
    A poem about the human influence on each other and the earth the poem has been changed a bit also the poem is written in free form it is my first online submission plz comment.
  • Numb Or Broken
    I feel dead inside.
  • Time for Your Final Goodbye
    Something I VERY quickly wrote when I had enough, and I had a dream about killing someone :S I wont ever do it though, so... meh... Comment?
  • Grainspirit
    A small part of a song I wrote during the darkest days of my existence.
  • Out of Control
    A poem I wrote about the effects of drink driving. My first poem - Please comment!!
  • I Miss You
    I wrote this a few months after my grandmother died. I started it a few days after but it got to hard because I still didn't believe that she was gone. So I couldn't finish it and then I finally did.
  • Deceiving..
    Its about a girl that looks good and fine from the outside but from inside she in a lot of pain.
  • Silence
    A lost survivor.
  • Too Late..
    Read and u will know. Please comment.
  • Before Its Too Late
    When there is a choice of making someone happy or not at all is between a chain reaction.
  • The Day U Left Me...
    Please comment and this poem is true.
  • Hell's Butterfly
    For my Dad. The last one who might still love me...
  • Headphones
    Um... This a brief description of my first date with my ex...... Btw: This is my other account my original is Fallen Star...(that was random...)
  • EVERY NIGHT
    Its about the life of a girl (its true).
  • Once Upon a Time
    Sad, about my life.
  • A Fresh New Slit
    About a girl who is saved after almost ending her life.
  • Giving Up on Love
    Sometimes giving up is better than getting hurt.
  • Who Makes Me Feel This Way...
    A poem I wrote the day after my girlfriend broke up with me. I'm bi. Or maybe lez because I hate guys. well, enjoy..
  • Falling Apart
    Read the title...
  • Gotcha
    Sitting in your favorite dress...
  • Moments of Death
    Dieing moments.
  • Death by Packs
    Sadness never putrefies...
  • Tears
    For my stepdad who is dying
  • Why Change Me
    Greedy
  • Bleeding
    :( Sad and depressing.
  • Ghost
    Ha nobody can see you no more...
  • Can You See Me
    Alone in this world....
  • Mind in Agony
    Laying awake at midnight unable to sleep, young girl going thru depression...
  • Can We Say Goodbye
    Are we too late to say goodbye
  • Emo Tears
    =(
  • Breeze of Courage
    Maybe the title doesn't reflect the poem but I think it does. It's a poem about when your down, humiliated and all you want to do is to die but you know that you had to go on.
  • Posioned Fate
    A smile frozen upon my face as your poison controls my fate...
  • Listen, I'm sorry
    They say forgiveness is divine...........
  • Hate to Love
    Hate and Love are two very strong emotions, here I have described a heart full of hate wanting love but fails.
  • Just to Hear You Say I Love You
    He left me & I lost a big part of me.
  • Tell Me Lies
    Okay this really doesn't belong in this category but I couldn't find a better one. Here goes!
  • Dust Figures
    Dying vampires and what they felt...yea i know it may not be right but hey I just watched interview with a vampire and this popped in my head after two of them were burned by the sun *sniffle* so...
  • My Choice
    ......................
  • Where Have You Gone
    My grandma was the most important person in my life and I still love her. God Bless you Grandma Mary Paige. I love you every day more and more.
  • Pain
    Yea just comment please this is something that has been on my mind.
  • Voice with Something to Say
    Yea this is something that was going through my mind during my senior year in high school and it sums up all that I was feeling at the time. I'm so deep in this poem.
  • Whispers
    Umm this is pretty much how I feel.....
  • In The End
    I'm drained but aching for more, & the devil inside is reading the words of the saddest poem , to be engraved on the stone of my grave.
  • Obsessed With Obsessions
    I am bored...
  • Obsessed With A Kiss
    If you like it than ggod but if not I am still smiling, I seem to like obsessed or obsession at the moment its fun..
  • Obession
    Demonic love...
  • The Cutting Game
    Just a little something I wrote, it's not very good.
  • Nobodies Here
    This is something I created during a period of deep depression... enjoy!
  • The Suicide Song
    I had a creative brain fart xD.
  • Poison Rose
    Roses can represent lies, romance, hope and deception.
  • Painful Memories
    These are my most painful memories.
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