Death Poems

Let me die a youngman's death
not a clean and inbetween
the sheets holywater death
not a famous-last-words
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And death shall have no dominion.
Dead man naked they shall be one
With the man in the wind and the west moon;
When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone,
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Death be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not soe,
For, those, whom thou think'st, thou dost overthrow,
Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill mee.
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shot in the eye
shot in the brain
shot in the ****
shot like a flower in the dance
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There are cemeteries that are lonely,
graves full of bones that do not make a sound,
the heart moving through a tunnel,
in it darkness, darkness, darkness,
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The dark wings of night enfolded the city upon which Nature had spread a pure white garment of snow; and men deserted the streets for their houses in search of warmth, while the north wind probed in contemplation of laying waste the gardens...
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Hey Father Death, I'm flying home
Hey poor man, you're all alone
Hey old daddy, I know where I'm going
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Your two great eyes will slay me suddenly;
Their beauty shakes me who was once serene;
Straight through my heart the wound is quick and keen.
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War's a joke for me and you,
Wile we know such dreams are true.
- Siegfried Sassoon
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I ask not that my bed of death
From bands of greedy heirs be free;
For these besiege the latest breath
Of fortune's favoured sons, not me.
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Take the cloak from his face, and at first
Let the corpse do its worst!

How he lies in his rights of a man!
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After that hot gospeller has levelled all but the churched sky,
I wrote the tale by tallow of a city's death by fire;
Under a candle's eye, that smoked in tears, I
Wanted to tell, in more than wax, of faiths that were snapped like wire.
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Heavenly cursed and heavily sinned I
No more i like to add them, so, I want to die
And I want to become a holy ghost
Whom the people would like the most.
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Death is forever
So don't flirt with suicide

Death is painful
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There are lone cemeteries,
tombs full of soundless bones,
the heart threading a tunnel,
a dark, dark tunnel:
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Then Almitra spoke, saying, 'We would ask now of Death.'

And he said:
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A stone I died and rose again a plant;
A plant I died and rose an animal;
I died an animal and was born a man.
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O marriage-bells, your clamor tells
Two weddings in one breath.
SHE marries whom her love compels:
- And I wed Goodman Death!
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Any soul that drank the nectar of your passion was lifted.
From that water of life he is in a state of elation.
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O thou the last fulfilment of life,
Death, my death, come and whisper to me!
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Epitaph for a Palestinian Child
by Michael R. Burch

I lived as best I could, and then I died.
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Death is no joke, nobody can laugh at it
Death is not a he or a she, death is an it
Death is different, death comes like a flash
Death strikes. Death is the fastest thing around
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Death' is when 'You' milk 'It' and milk it, milked
and you drive it, forever and ever,
upward and upward and never down ward, insane.
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Someday death shall die
A time shall come when death shall die
Sometime in the near future death shall die
Soon and very soon death shall die
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Death to death, in-between lamp,
Life, light and flame that dithers in wind
That sprouts and ends in stark death;
It's death all round; death, up and down,
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