Death Poems
Visiting a Dead Man on a Summer Day
In flat America, in Chicago,
Graceland cemetery on the German North Side.
Forty feet... more
Poet: Marge Piercy by: Marge Piercy | rating:  Call It a Good Marriage
Call it a good marriage -
For no one ever questioned
Her warmth, his... more
Poet: Robert Graves by: Robert Graves | rating: Cherry bomb
I said goodbye and went to bed to die;
I never knew that they had lied - was quite... more
Poet: Ivan Donn Carswell by: Ivan Donn Carswell | rating: When I'm Killed
When I'm killed, don't think of me
Buried there in Cambrin Wood,
Nor as in Zion think of... more
Poet: Robert Graves by: Robert Graves | rating: To Helen
(After Valery)
O Sea! ... 'Tis I, risen from death once more
To hear the waves'... more
Poet: Delmore Schwartz by: Delmore Schwartz | rating: Little Pills
What kind of magic does these do?
These things, oblong and blue
I line them up on the... more
Poet: Tiffany Hall by: Hassan Iftikhar | rating: Acceptance
I walk through this valley
in the shadow of death
cold handed, cold breathed
alone to... more
Poet: Cymbre Dolphay by: Aqua Regia | rating: For the Dead
I dreamed I called you on the telephone
to say: Be kinder to yourself
but you were sick... more
Poet: Adrienne Rich by: Adrienne Rich | rating: Silver Marrow Slivered Dream
listlessly she drenches
the twin blade
of severed moments
and tower... more
Poet: Tom Goss by: Usman Faiz | rating: Year's End
The state cracked where they left your breath
No longer instrument. Along the shore
The... more
Poet: Weldon Kees by: Weldon Kees | rating:
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