Poems About: DEATH

In this page, poems on / about “death” are listed.
  • 1.
    Passing On


    To be absent from the body
    Is to be present with the Lord
    The dust returns to earth read more »

    Udiah (witness to Yah)
  • 2.
    It's Death Again

    It's Death again – He's always there –
    Watching, waiting – e'er the stare!
    Every time I look behind
    Or reach to pull the window blind, read more »

    Mark R Slaughter
  • 3.
    Disingenuousness

    Here lies another box for nature,
    Carbon ready;
    Black to eyes down here,
    Where death is at its job. read more »

    Mark R Slaughter
  • 4.
    Beldame of Death

    A crunch: afoot a dead arachnid
    Spanning once a serving plate –
    Oh! that others be alive
    With such as me for spider bait! read more »

    Mark R Slaughter
  • 5.
    Angel of Death

    In darkness of the night
    I spied him in a tree
    Sat I froze by the sight
    He was looking at me read more »

    Udiah (witness to Yah)
  • 6.
    Musings

    Be gentle, sky, and let me rest –
    These bones are worn – they lack the zest
    Of flesh in life – they’re marrowless! –
    Their arid surface, nakedness! – read more »

    Mark R Slaughter
  • 7.
    Death and I

    When death comes
    I’ll need not love –
    Consumed,
    No wreath or dove read more »

    Mark R Slaughter
  • 8.
    A Fresh Endeavour

    So now I've taken leave of life,
    I thought you'd like to know, I still
    Possess a mind in love, oh wife;
    A soulful eye to catch a show of read more »

    Mark R Slaughter
  • 9.
    The Road to Hell

    Someone once said, 'The road to hell is paved with good intentions.'
    But it is much more than that, one can go so far as to mention,
    That many on that road think they have with God, good relations.'
    Have you ever read God's Word and learned of His expectations? read more »

    Udiah (witness to Yah)
  • 10.
    The Body

    Through oddly tinted glasses, I scan the grey of death –
    Stone cold, bone old:
    In awe I hold an artefact of life inside the eye! read more »

    Mark R Slaughter
  • 11.
    Until We Again Rendezvous


    This life has now passed away
    They are with the Lord today
    Enjoying a better life anew read more »

    Udiah (witness to Yah)
  • 12.
    In Death, My Final Part

    A tower grim; a glowering darkness,
    And only brown of red the other hue
    – I saw it in the distant eyes –
    And yes, He knew, but focussed only read more »

    Mark R Slaughter
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