Poems About Death for Free
by Nicholas Gordon

Poems about death, poetry about death, free for any personal or non-commercial purpose.
All poems: copyright by Nicholas Gordon.

• A Gift's Been Given in Your Loved One's Name
• Abriahna
• After My Father Gave Me His Blessing
• Audrey
• Birthdays Do Not End with Death
• Bobbie Jo Can't Be with Us
• Buddy
• Can't You See? Don't You Care
• Children Who Die Are Not Really Gone
• Dan Phillips Lived a Golden Life
• Dear Son, I Cannot Speak
• Death Can Also Be a Dance
• Death for One Ought Not Mean Death for Two
• Death Is a Deliverer
• Death Is like a Car
• Death Is Nothing but a Moment's Rest
• Diabetes Tells Us We're Machines
• Each Moment of Love Remains like a Song
• Early On, There's a Point to Regret
• Ed Was a Black and White Paint Quarter Horse
• Every Moment Sings with Fascination
• Every Time I See My Pansies
• Fathers Need Not Fathers Be
• Father's Day Without You Is like Music
• Frosty Died Last December
• Go Gently, Gently into That Good Night
• Her Life Was Not as Glorious as Some
• Here Is So Much More than Here
• Here's a Little Ditty
• Hooray! Hooray! The Time Has Come
• How Lucky to Have Had So Good a Father
• How Might a Spirit Settle in the Wind
• I Am the Mirror of Our Love
• I Cannot Think You're Not Alive Somewhere
• I Didn't Get a Chance to Say Goodbye
• I Do Not Wish to Undermine Your Sorrow
• I Don't Want to Be Coy
• I Feel as Though My Heart Must Stop with Pain
• I Have One Living Son
• I Miss Your Laughter, Fun, and Gentleness
• I Need to Say Goodbye Although You're with Me
• I Think of You as Watching from
• I Want to Make It to My Graduation
• I Want You to Be Happy When I'm Gone
• I Wish that I Could Bring You to the Lord
• I Would Be Proud of You, Could I Attend
• I Would Not Be the Sun to End Your Night
• I'll See You When the Sun Goes Down
• I'm Sorry I Can't Be with You Today
• In Eighth Grade My Best Friend Passed Away
• In Memory of Those Who Died
• Josh2
• Julie
• Kathleen Charlotte Angel Passed Away
• Kaylynn
• Lady
• Lee Beaumont Died at Fifteen
• Life Is Beautiful, My Child
• Make a Little Time for Public Mourning
• Make My Sorrow Pride
• Margarita Is an Angel
• Martin
• Matthew Is Gone and Will Never Be Back
• Maybe in the Grip of Pain
• Memory's an Antidote for Death
• Mom Lived Her Life for Love of Friends and Family
• My Father's Angel Is 21 Years Old
• My Mother Passed Away on June the Fifth
• Neither Mourn nor Celebrate
• Nicole2
• Nora
• Not a Day Goes By that I Don't Think of You
• On the Death of a Teacher
• One Late Summer Afternoon
• One Night I Saw Aaron
• One Year Ago You Died, and Still We Mourn
• Our Grandson Tyler Was Just Over Seven
• Recently I Dreamed I Talked to You
• Rest in Peace, My Loved One, Rest in Peace
• Sarah2
• Several Days Before I Was to Die
• She Died Soon After Many Years of Pain
• Single Life Is Hard for Those Who've Shared
• Some Losses Seem to Augur Endless Night
• Some Sing Silently, Which Is All Right
• Sorrow May the Heart Sometimes Deface
• Sorrow May the Heart Sometimes Deface (2)
• Souls Do Not Disintegrate and Die
• Such Love of Life Cannot So Quickly Fade
• Tarah and Serrin Have Not Passed Away
• Tears Flow Down to Endless Streams of Sadness
• Thank You for Helping Me to Die
• Thank You for Leaving Us Your Son
• Thank You for Naming Yours after Our Own
• Thank You for the Lovely Card
• Thank You for Your Recent Contribution
• The Cancer That Killed You Was Part of You Gone Quite Insane
• The Gift of Life Is Never More or Less
• The Night I Tried to Kill Myself
• The Only Hope Is that There Is No Hope
• The Sky Is Falling! The Sky Is Falling!
• The Time for Love Is Now Fast Disappearing
• The Years May Sing of Darkness
• There Is a Fructifying Sort of Grief
• There Is a Residue of Hope
• There Is in Grief a Saving Grace
• There Is No Difference in the Way I Love You
• There Is No Substance to My Listless Longing
• There Is No Threnody for Utter Darkness
• There's No Understanding What You Did
• Theresa
• This Truth Is like a Sea That Has No Shore
• Those Last Few Years of Helpless Pain
• Though I Chose Death Instead of Pointless Pain
• Though This May Be Our Christmas Last
• Though Winter Come, Thy Will Be Done
• Time Is a Gift, like Food or Love or Death
• To a Stillborn Sister
• To Lose Someone Who's Loved You All Your Life
• To Say Goodbye's Impossible Forever
• Tyler
• Understand, Death Has No Use for Time
• We Are Not Your Children
• We Lost You Just Two Years Ago
• Weep, Weep Within Me, Darling
• When Death Must Come at Christmastime
• Where Did You Go, My Lovely Ones
• Where Do We Go
• Years Turn the Pages; the Book Remains
• You Did Not Merely Die, but You Were Murdered
• You Had the Gift of Happiness
• You Killed Yourself and Didn't Think of Me
• You Never Thought that It Would End This Way
• You Taught Me How to Love You
• You Told Me in a Dream You Always Loved Me
• You Were for Us Not Only Love, but Bread
• You Were My Mother and My Friend
• Your Legacy Must Be Both Love and Fear

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Nicholas Gordon, P.O. Box 3043, Fort Lee, NJ 07024.

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