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Best Burial Ground Poems

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Premium Member Sacred Burial Ground
Once, in a thought, it seemed how everything
stood without color, either black or white
or marbled grey, were sparrows tipped in flight
then pitched to the barn...

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Categories: burial ground, abuse, america, native american,
Form: Italian Sonnet



Premium Member Love Burial
The 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 ground, cute love, endurance, love,
Form: Epic
Death To the Mockingbird
Death 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 ground, dark, jealousy,
Form: Rhyme
The Nature of Wisdom
Every flower has its own color
With annual observation,
this we springtime discover

Give a womb kernel cede
of acknowledgment
To the spectrum birthright
of each other

We are all one,
tho’ from...

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Categories: burial ground, metaphor, nature, truth, wisdom,
Form: Prose Poetry
Haiku 35
1#
Brewed tea
Wife and myself
Nothing between us
2#
He was metamorphosed 
Into a frog
When his wife had left him
3#
I needed
A lonely woman
Thousand years back
4#
She shivered
In yellow sun
Struck by...

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Categories: burial ground, god, grave, water, wedding,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member A Tomb of Ancient Bloom
You come in search of love back to the tomb
Beneath the Weeping Willow tree it lies
The place where last you lips brought me to bloom
Where...

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Categories: burial ground, true love,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member The Ring Around
*“Ring around the Rosy. A pocketful of posies.
Ashes, Ashes, we all fall down.” - a nursery rhyme

Gone to ashes.
Each town was a burial ground
gone to...

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Categories: burial ground, history, children, children,
Form: Verse
Man Vs Nature
The heavens roared with thunder
as lightning filled the skies
was this God getting angry
or Natures big surprise.

Is Mother Nature telling us
the best way that she can
to...

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Categories: burial ground, life, nature, people, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Epitaph of An Abdicator
    There sat in opulent xanadu, the 
 demagogue of empirical hedonism, 
his granary once fuelled regal reign of epicureanism:

gregarious, restive, much-awaited...

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Categories: burial ground, appreciation, education, eulogy, hero,
Form: Epitaph
Premium Member Hourglass
HOURGLASS~SAND

Busted with a stain no one can remove.
I can't explain, the love I feel for you.
Time is passing,and you still have nothing to prove.
I'm stuck...

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Categories: burial ground, abuse, depression, emotions, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Pompeii
Italian winds blow gently and smooth
Over hushed dusty remnants of lives past,
This once thriving city clueless of its fate
Lies frozen in time under hot blazing...

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Categories: burial ground, city, history, natural disasters,
Form: Free verse
My Ageless, Eternal and Perpetual Hell
And the cemetery was ageless... 

As I walked up to the elaborate granite bench your ashes had been buried in, I saw the forty-foot bronze...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: burial ground, death, depression, grief, sister,
Form: Prose
Bronze Age Mysteries
The Old Straight Track climbs up towards the ridge,
A tangent to this ancient burial ground
Where Bronze Age bodies slumber under mounds;
In number, nine, each barrow...

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© Mike Jones  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: burial ground, history, journey, mystery,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Raven's Revenge
She's often seen on dark and stormy nights according to local lore,
Gliding among the ancient stones standing in that fearsome moor.
Mists wafting about the burial...

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Categories: burial ground, death, mystery, sadheart, heart,
Form: Rhyme
Beginnings Matter
ORIGINAL TITLE HAIKU 35
1#
Brewed tea
Wife and myself
Nothing between us
2#
He was metamorphosed 
Into a frog
When his wife had left him
3#
I needed
A lonely woman
Thousand years back
4#
She shivered
In...

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Categories: burial ground, poetry,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Shattered Sighs