Best Grave Poems
Below are the all-time best Grave poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of grave poems written by PoetrySoup members
Atlantis~ATLANTIS~ Featuring:) Kelly Deschler
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Can't be re-written by the Gods
The land and sands of time'
Destroyed by the fire of Poseidon's curse
Atlantis swallowed by:...
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Categories:
beautiful, fire, grave, imagination,
Form:
Epic
The Devils RiddleThe Devils Riddle
Dark is the night
Dark is the soul
Dark is the heart that used to glow
Empty are the rainbows falling from the skies
Empty of the...
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Categories:
grave, home, journey,
Form:
Light Verse
Caressed By Vines
Like tender loving arms, they wrap around
old monuments of stone set on the ground;
those silent sentinels that stand their guard
...
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Categories:
bereavement, grave, tribute,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
Season of SeptemberSunlight falls in breezy dapples
across your lichened stone,
solace now I seek in chapel’s
old yard while we’re alone.
It brings my heart back, being here -
love; that...
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Categories:
appreciation, autumn, grave, grief,
Form:
Lyric
Nevermore Will Raven Return*Note: A 60-year annual tradition that involved a mysterious visitor leaving three
roses at the grave of writer Edgar Allan Poe on the anniversary...
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Categories:
mysteryhouse, loss, birthday, grave,
Form:
Narrative
Do You Remember MeThey walk silently along my hallways.
Floors littered with faded finery.
Do you remember my Granduer?
I had once been called the Queen of the sea.
Pulled down to...
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Categories:
grave, beauty, bereavement, eulogy, fish,
Form:
I do not know?
Dark Clouds - a Collaboration With Liam Mc DaidGrey clouds the innocent sky ambushing light turns dark
stumbling over a tombstone opening up cold graves
When eyes become frozen behind scenes in hidden truth...
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Categories:
depression, grave, storm,
Form:
Free verse
BecomeI close my weary eyes
I quake and tremble
The meaning of life losing its hold,
Losing its wonder
In this magnifying, mystifying Sadness
Where is the river,
Where is...
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Categories:
grave, age, crush, earth, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
The EnlighteningThe 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:
grave, halloween, horror,
Form:
Narrative
Eden-Eden's Ending Eulogy-
Proceed here today, Eden's Ending Eulogy
Gentle gracious her garden, the guidance
I can't recall what was with the warm, sincere smile, and...
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Categories:
grave, beautiful, beauty, celebration, eulogy,
Form:
Alliteration
Poppies RedNovember 11th is Remembrance Day in Canada
(Veterans Day)
When I was in grade 7 or 8 (I don't exactly remember) we had
to write...
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Categories:
freedom, grave, remember, veterans
Form:
Rhyme
Lost My SongWhen in this life I felt down
You were the one that was around
Maybe it was the way you held my hand
I knew in my heart...
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Categories:
grave, absence, age, angel, beautiful,
Form:
Rhyme
Eternal BreathI think about you, every single day,
Since from me, you were taken away,
Your absence has left my world cold,
Now I am alone, with no hand...
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Categories:
absence, death, devotion, grave,
Form:
Rhyme
Whispering Old Cemetery
I came across an old cemetery today while exploring,
Full of broken, toppled headstones and tangled weeds;
There was a deep hush,...
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Categories:
death, grave, grief, lost,
Form:
Elegy
HeartbrokenFICTIONAL EMOTIVE WRITE
Since I was a tiny baby I was brought up by my grandparents and had a very happy childhood. I knew that they...
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Categories:
death, grave, grief, heartbreak,
Form:
Haibun