Best Cemetery Poems
Below are the all-time best Cemetery poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of cemetery poems written by PoetrySoup members
Purple CemeteryI write so many poems that you don’t see
They end up in purple poem cemetery
Mangled in the **** of my maroon mind
Tangerine tangles of wasted...
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Categories:
cemetery, dream, feelings, green, how
Form:
Rhyme
The Cemetery WasThe cemetery was
Before my very eyes, stillness
Autumn leaves a blanket on the dead
The cemetery was
There, as it always was there
From childhood till now
The cemetery was
For...
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Categories:
cemetery, angel, art, beauty, death,
Form:
Free verse
Black Diamond NightBlack Diamond Night (a coal miner’s cemetery)
Where the ebony, we call “NIGHT”,
Old black rocks sit under the twilight
Diamond shape eyes unclear and lonely,
Sinister...
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Categories:
cemetery, body, death, history, lonely,
Form:
Epic
Where the White Rose BloomsThe single white rose captured the old gardener's attention,
He lovingly cared for it, like it was his own grand-daughter,
The roses were just like family and...
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Categories:
cemetery, death, funeral, garden, heaven,
Form:
Quatrain
The Dark Side of OctoberThe Dark Side of October
Late October moon is waking, through this cemetery shaking,
shaking as the cold wind breaking, walking ‘neath an old oak tree.
Stones like...
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Categories:
cemetery, dark, horror, october, scary,
Form:
Rhyme
Still WinterDead Winter Stray~ By: Poet Destroyer
Nearby paces, Combatants lost under the cemetery walls,
“Blessed Men and Heavenly Remedy Women of Ages,”
Feelings of dance at the beginning...
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Categories:
cemetery, death, dance, beautiful, woman,
Form:
Free verse
Necromancer (The Haunting Continues...)In the cemetery I walk, so dark it is this night.
Hoping that the Ghouls won't start to bite.
I feel the tug of the dead,...
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Categories:
cemetery, death, fantasy, imaginationdark, dark,
Form:
Heroic Couplet
Pearl of the Orient
"Ang hindi lumingon sa pinanggalingan,
hindi makakarating sa paroroonan".
(A person who does not remember where he came from
will never reach his destination).
Filipino proverb.
Gift me...
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Categories:
cemetery, travel,
Form:
Free verse
Death: Now DwellsOh, there was a past time when though my path was rough:
Joy once dallied in my heart but death now dwells-
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Categories:
cemetery, death,
Form:
Verse
Time Feathered In Stone
I open the cemetery gate and walk a winding path
the ancient trees sway and reach out for me as I go
I pass mazes of headstones
like...
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Categories:
cemetery, words,
Form:
Free verse
Paris the 13thParis the 13th
Tears, my tears fall to wine
As I can not comprehend this horrendous crime
Men filled with such spiteful hate
Islamic teachings seal their fate
Kill and...
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Categories:
cemetery, death, dedication, freedom, humanity,
Form:
Light Verse
How a Blue Rose Came To BeOnce upon a time many years ago
There was a sweet and lovely red, red Irish rose
That was plucked prematurely from the garden vine
A budding...
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Categories:
cemetery, death, imagination, love, rose,
Form:
Rhyme
Celebarating the Adventure of Advent: a Collaboration With Kai Michael NeumannUniversal elegy grieves and yet embraces shifts of paradigm
New beginnings consciousness initiates comprehends and thus proceeds from
Illusion’s delusion collusions misconceptions in the irritating
Vortex whirlpool immanent...
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Categories:
cemetery, adventure, community, universe,
Form:
Sestina
Silence Is BrokenI stand at the front of the exam hall, which is in total silence.
Grey desks stretch out in neat rows -
they remind...
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Categories:
cemetery, high school, humorous, silence,
Form:
Free verse
- Comfortably Numb Feelings -Oh now sad frog located on the sandy beach
Emotions raging around the body as an Icelandic volcano
burning holds in a vice grips deeply
Stranded in...
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Categories:
cemetery, care, deep, destiny, kiss,
Form:
Free verse