Death Poetry is all about exploring our feelings about Thanatos in verse. The new portal https://www.death-poetry.com/ aims is a dedicated poetic portal hosting poems related to death, existence and life itself.

Death has always been one of the basic elements defining our life. From the moment we come to this world up to our last breath, the fear of stop being alive drives most of our thoughts and actions. The tragic knowledge of our imminent death is one of the primal drives of our life choices everyday, even when we do not even think about it.

We constantly think - unconsciously - how things end. How everything we love will one day be gone forever, how we will stop seeing loved ones, how we will leave this world without a chance of ever seeing home again.

In today’s fast-pace era we try to not think about all these things. Our happiness is based on progress, on being alive, on things we post every day, on having fun and being with friends. We do everything in our power to forget our grave end, just because we are cowards. That is the truth no one can ever tell.

But death is always here. Lurking in the shadows of our mind.

Whispering to the living, that the dead are not dead. They are still with us, a constant reminder of life and what is important at the end. Not our life. Not what we have said. But all those things we feel and we are too afraid to utter when speaking to our self. Things we know about what is important besides the things we care about when seeing the world we live in.

Art - in the form of poetry - allows us to express what we feel without words. A poem can make us say things we even do not know is there. Feeling buried deep inside us, based on a knowledge we have lost regarding death. As Harmonia Philosophica has postulated a long time ago, death does not exist beyond the things we think. Poets know that. They always did.

All we have to do it listen to verse.

Death is dead.

Death is nigh.

Part of life…