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Best Cremate Poems

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Premium Member Narrow Margin
In the narrow margin between life and death,
I feel as I'm walking a tightrope - but balancing.
I'm a portrayal of metaphors, 
illuminating like spring's moon,
who...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cremate, analogy, how i feel,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member Journal
“It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.”
David Levithan

I will forever be...

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Categories: cremate, angst, emotions, heartbreak, imagery,
Form: Free verse
When I Pass
when i pass
i will linger on in a few memories
a few nanoseconds in man's history
place no stone above me
with some name easily forgotten
never bury me...

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Categories: cremate, celebration, faith, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Market place of hallucination
In an endless night,
time is my nemesis.

In the realms of sleepwalking nightmares,
where trumpets blow an eerie tune,
I can see the Grim Reaper,
perched upon my tomb.

I...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cremate, allusion, angst, fate,
Form: Free verse
Pink Elephants and Purple Snakes
a journey

arrival
The cancer within.
Just another place to be.
(Whatever that means).

hello, now
You look different
than I imagined, filtered
through those gamma rays.

what's up doc?
Shall we slice, dice or
nuke...

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Categories: cremate, journey,
Form: Senryu



Lifeless
A lifeless life
dawns through my eyes…
with nothing but wrongs
and no birds in flight
the trees are bare
the wind is zilch
there’s a common wisp in the air
that...

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Categories: cremate, life, loss,
Form: Free verse
We Never Said Anything
we never said anything as the Goliath of good swept our heritage. 
            ...

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Categories: cremate, absence, innocence, slavery,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Anima Mundi
This is where black breaks open into bright bleeding feeling
as souls suffer the fire of flesh to enter arena Earth screaming
searching the ether for Adam...

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Categories: cremate, creation, death, earth, life,
Form: Didactic
Epilogue To Premature Cremation
Clandestine meeting between
the Orvatech Corp. and the Celestial Military Command
Date: 04.24.2258


General Avar, the High General: The third trial test run has been successfully
concluded. What are...

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Categories: cremate, horror, science fiction, soldier,
Form: Narrative
Babylonian Anthem
Thou, O king, hast made a decree, 
that every man that shall hear the
sound of the cornet, flute, harp,
sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, 
and all kinds...

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Categories: cremate, bible, patriotic, religious, truth,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Just Remember This of Me-W
EPITAPH

If I die in India, the following Bhagvad Geeta Mantra will be chanted, as we, the 
Hindus don’t cremate the dead body but we burn...

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Categories: cremate, death,
Form: Epitaph
Premium Member The Windows of the Soul-Win
The eyes are the windows to the soul
My ardent desire is to keep her eyes
Eyes so beautiful
Eyes so omniscient
But how can I conserve it?
Is there...

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Categories: cremate, loneliness, love,
Form: Free verse
Tasting Tears
Instead of breathing air--It is tears I take in.
I can feel them, taste them.

How does one taste their tears…
They slip down your throat when
One weeps...

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© Fonda Anne  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cremate, addiction, bereavement, grief, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
Walking Alone
Walking alone on this meandering path
not even a shadow of myself by my side
a cloud of silence surrounds me
I hear only my silent footsteps 
as...

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Categories: cremate, break up, hope, lonely,
Form: Free verse
Crooked Undertaker
I owned a funeral parlor and I earned a lot of bread.
I got paid a whole lot of money to cremate the dead.
Each cadaver that...

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Categories: cremate, death, funeral, funny, humor,
Form: Rhyme

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