Best Boneyard Poems

From a distance away,
I can spot a proud tail fin,
Standing upright among 
A sea of dull metals.
As I approach, it’s evident that
Here rests the Queen.
The...

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Boneyard
Abandoned, Peaceful  
Sprawling, Watching, Waiting 
Still as the Night 
Graveyard

July 31, 2019

**Side note: I was inspired to write a cinquain poem after my son...

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TO PRESERVE YOUR HEALTH
   YOU MUST RESERVE YOUR DATE AND TIME
TO ENTER THE EMPIRE OF DEATH

“Arrête, c'est ici l'empire de la mort!"

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Man, it just doesn’t pay to try and live in the day. Crazy full up, crisper, sharpest with an undepleted uranium core, burning burning burning,...

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Upon a hill there was an old house and in it lived Abigail, a young lady without a spouse. One day her doorbell rang and...

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Come little children- come and eat-There’s plenty all scattered about
Stale flat bread and biscuit crumbles -You must dig them out
Banana peelings and lettuce leafs -You...

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Walking the path each day
introverted thoughts in 
cased in my skull
a boneyard of ebbing 
memories and thought-processes 
back slightly hunched over 
eyes to the ground...

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Last night dinner
with four couples
points out the difficulties in living together
and apart. 
            ...

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red-haired poltergeist
in a spine-chilling boneyard
a blood-spattered cape

10.15.17

Third place
"Halloween Senryu"
hosted by Laura Loo...

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Edwardo Badia
1856-1914

That low bred confidence man!
That snooking swindler who took me for a fool.
“Hey Gregg, you thief!
You owe me still, even as I rot here,
Regrettably...

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Carl Koontz

1892-1915

Mister Gregg was standing atop my grounded skull,

And so was Mister White,

And the reticent county coroner.

And inexplicably,

They directed two men in blue overalls

To dig...

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A Visit to the Graveyard
My heroic entry in the gateway
Of a graveyard
And drop by drop dissolving of boastfulness, in a boneyard
Admiring an army of, once...

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We’re bait.
Bait for the beasts
Waiting to feast on the meat
To say the least
The world is stripped when they meet

So bathe
In social incest, along with decadence
And...

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Color my thoughts in burgundy laughter,
Place your hand on my heaviest 
Graves, those that winter in my depression,
Kiss away the buttery jonquils of spring
Erasing winter’s...

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That afternoon at Highgate
When my life had paused awhile, 
Old graves and headstones greeted 
With their sad and forlorn smile.

Smirched epitaphs stared at me
My call...

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