Best Burial Poems
Below are the all-time best Burial poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of burial poems written by PoetrySoup members
Love BurialThe burial ground, groomed to greet
the gatherers of their love apocalypse
with garlands grown and sown
from the rose fire of Athena's throne,
on this day they...
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Categories:
burial, cute love, endurance, love,
Form:
Epic
Never To Be MineNot with my arms but with a heart
that blesses your reveries, may peace reside
within your chest... is it possible to love you
less? Perhaps allow...
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Categories:
burial, grief, i miss you,
Form:
Free verse
Tributaries Of Black Tulips - Collaboration with 'Ink Empress'
When heinous fangs
of life drain
the amethyst glow
flowing above
infected ripples of time,
I question the
chaos that claims
serenity through
saline serenade
of sirens, composed
with midnight...
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Categories:
burial, black love, dark, deep,
Form:
Free verse
Snake Oil Man In Milton CreekIt was about seven in the morn as the sun was starting to rise
Unbeknown to the folks of Milton Creek they were in for a...
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Categories:
burial, america, western,
Form:
Rhyme
SoldierI saw a burial with a bugler playing taps;
I turned to my father, “what happened?” I asked.
He clutched my hand and with a quiver in...
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Categories:
burial, death, father, inspirational, loss,
Form:
Rhyme
The PoetTHE POET’S PANEGYRIC
“There’s someone I knew with talent unleashed
and a heart that had for so many relentlessly reached
This poet sought inspiration from the living and...
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Categories:
burial, life, words,
Form:
Rhyme
A Phantom of LoveAll alone you sit there in grip of graveyard, hosting demonic thoughts,
Listening to cries of tombstones, squalling from lovers’ somber epitaphs,
Recounting how you chased prospects,...
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Categories:
burial, death, lust, sorrow,
Form:
Verse
Death To the MockingbirdDeath to the mockingbird with one shot to the heart,
Crushing wings with desperation sings sorrow worlds apart.
Concrete tears from wasted eyes fall on a mossy...
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Categories:
burial, dark, jealousy,
Form:
Rhyme
An Excavation
Children as young as three years old,
Killed for not doing as they’re told,
Forced to forget their culture...
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Categories:
burial, abuse, children, death, school,
Form:
Rhyme
Seven Kingdoms
I
The Holy Bible said seven kingdoms would arise,
then like windblown grains of sand, fall to the dust
Six kingdoms have come and gone, blinked their eyes
and...
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Categories:
burial, judgement, religious, spiritual, truth,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
A "hopeless" Diamond (In the Rough)French trader Tavernier in a greed-inspired way
Glared at an idol of a temple in Mandalay
Prying a gem from its eye socket, a curse prevailed
Tavernier died...
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Categories:
burial, history, mysterylost, hope, lost,
Form:
Quatrain
Egnehenots: Earth and StoneEgnehenots – of earth and stone
Chief elder – most wise upon the Salisbury Plain
an old man . . . ...
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Categories:
burial, life, light, love,
Form:
Free verse
Pearls Beneath the HarborOur bank accounts nearly emptied so we could afford a vacation; two young working girls who'd never been far from home. We were looking forward...
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Categories:
burial, people, places, world war
Form:
Haibun
NevermoreI write of a man named Edgar Allan Poe,
Whose dark, tortured soul could not rest,
His work is something every poet should know,
These stories are among...
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Categories:
burial, horror, poetry, tribute, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Time's Loving DeceitAnger flies with swift wings
As tedious pleas for more time reverberate through his mind
He is the servant of Time- yet takes the blame
When her clawed...
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Categories:
burial, corruption, dark, deep, desire,
Form:
Free verse