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Best Epitaphs Poems

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Mermaid Epitaphs
  As heartrose epitaphs
swathe earthly echoes
   with swelled up  w a v e s
  of spiritual sirens,
sea-fairies collide
  with...

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Categories: epitaphs, deep, destiny, emotions, imagination,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Epitaphs In Verse - Reflections In the Eyes of a Poet
The eyes behind a head inclined reflect a universe

   Of shanty towns and kings in crowns and parties in a hearse,
  ...

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Categories: epitaphs, life, universe,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member To Be With You -
I love you,
that's not hard for me to say,
its not a prediction, or a reflection, it just is
a motion in my heart's ocean,
an ocean named...

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Categories: epitaphs, desire,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Arms of starry Skies
My eyes cry for
fuschia glimmer on 
indigo waves again,
but all I see are 
haunting hues
of black sequin
glittered epitaphs;
reflections of hollow 
clouds enveloping cold air;
building tension...

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Categories: epitaphs, emotions,
Form: Free verse
The Last Organ Grinder
Between paper-soft 
worlds of fragile 
imaginations, 
I float upon those
gossamer tulips 
that split every 
second of saccharine 
musings and 
eclipsed confessions, 
distinguishing all
photoelectric synonyms
of lachrymose...

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Categories: epitaphs, dark, deep, destiny, meaningful,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Enlightening
The graveyard, shrouded in pale mist, so hauntingly eerie,
dampen spirits as the full moon loses her glow - dreary!
I float, like a vapour, amongst lifeless,...

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Categories: epitaphs, grave, halloween, horror,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Casket of Chaos
I am like faded leaves,
beneath my frail feet,
failing your forbidden name
that crushed the petals of 
blossoming hopes,
dusted with dark 
obsidian nightmares,
enclosed in 
seeds of discontent,
sprinkled...

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Categories: epitaphs, angst, dark, deep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Phantom of Love
All 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: epitaphs, death, lust, sorrow,
Form: Verse
Angel of Arctic Moonrise
This poem is a special devotion for my mother, who has always been a healing sun for these wintry eyes. Mumma, you're my hope, my...

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Categories: epitaphs, child, deep, devotion, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cosmic Chaos
“Special are the ones that see beyond  veiled verses, 
   behind violet smiles, so much is spoken in silence, where cosmic chaos...

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Categories: epitaphs, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Strolling Through Evergreen Cemetery
I was strolling through Evergreen Cemetery the other day,
Glancing at epitaphs etched upon various stones along the way.
Some flowing verse was out of this world...

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Categories: epitaphs, death, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Time Machine
TIME MACHINE

We always try to build a TARDIS,
in thinking we would look the smartest.
But then, who's time would we travel in, 
with a choice for...

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© Edlynn Nau  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: epitaphs, future, memory, science fiction,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Sand Dunes Bard
......for Clark



Thoughts are more sure-footed at
Low tide, those he meets along the way
Are often stationary....sometimes stuck,
With a helpful curse, a hand reaches out,
Feigns retreat, chuckles...

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Categories: epitaphs, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Graveyard of Ships
Beneath the fathom’s deep, in wreckage’s graveyard
Of the forgotten, here the broken bones of ships lie still,
Covered in a forest of seaweeds greenery.
Corrosion steel hauls...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: epitaphs, hero, history, imagery, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tombstone Tales
I took a casual stroll through the local cemetery the other day,
Looking for interesting epitaphs and to pay my respects along the way.
Many stones were...

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Categories: epitaphs, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

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