Death Poetry Prompt Generator

Death Poetry: The Ultimate Dark Art

Death has inspired poets since language began. These prompts help you join that ancient tradition, exploring mortality with depth, dignity, and artistic power.

Death Poetry Traditions:

• Elegies: Poems mourning the dead
• Thanatopsis: Meditations on mortality
• Memento Mori: Reminders of death's inevitability
• Gothic Death Poetry: Embracing the macabre
• Grief Poetry: Processing loss through verse

Example Death Poem:

From the prompt: "Write about death as an old friend coming to visit"

He knocks three times, always polite.

I've been expecting him—

the tea is already steeping,

two cups on the table.

Approaching Death in Poetry:

1. Balance darkness with dignity
2. Use metaphor to make death approachable
3. Honor both fear and acceptance
4. Remember the living in poems about the dead