Death is the theme of many poems and the preoccupation of many poets. Still after all this time poets are churning out new and intriguing approaches to death in poetry.

The goal of this prompt is to write a poem about death. The death you write about could be imagined, personified, personal, true, or false. The details of this prompt are entirely up to you.

 

The idea of dying scares me.
It haunts me in my dreams and nightmares
It feels so final and certain.

Where do we go from there?
Heaven?
or hell?
or do we just disintegrate into the soil?

I am not ready to die…
I am never going to be ready for death

A certain uncomfortable feeling
settles over me as I struggle to
grapple with what death personally means to me.
Expressing my emotions about death
is somehow very difficult as I am at a loss for words.
I haven’t acknowledged death
or even its eventuality.

I’ll try as hard as I can
to write something on death
I guess..

Death is
-Devoted and patient.

Death is
-a welcomed relief to the suffering.

Death is
-a one way street.

Death is
-the celebration of life.

Death is
-sometimes so sudden

Death
only takes, it never gives.