Best Graves Poems
Below are the all-time best Graves poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of graves poems written by PoetrySoup members
Black Diamond NightBlack Diamond Night (a coal miner’s cemetery)
Where the ebony, we call “NIGHT”,
Old black rocks sit under the twilight
Diamond shape eyes unclear and lonely,
Sinister...
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Categories:
graves, body, death, history, lonely,
Form:
Epic
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:
graves, desire,
Form:
Ballad
In the Sun's Last GlowOn her terrace where she once had viewed a crimson field,
she stands recalling heroes who were battling their foe.
She still can feel the terror! How...
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Categories:
graves, heart, lost love, may,
Form:
Quintain (English)
Our Love Is EternalOur soul's luminous light filters the depth of darkness
shining like a woven thread into the stillness of time
It was there where we met, in a...
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Categories:
graves, love,
Form:
Free verse
Once Upon A Time In Milton CreekThe sun was rising high in the east over the town of Milton creek
It was the eighteenth day of December, the start of Christmas week
All...
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Categories:
graves, america, anniversary, christmas, remember,
Form:
Narrative
Achilles, the Journey To Troy, Part TwoAchilles, The Journey To Troy,
(Part Two) of (Part One-titled, Achilles, His Heart and Soul Were Mortal)
Achilles, The Journey To Troy
Woe! wretched horrors Olympic gods...
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Categories:
graves, art, death, hero, literature,
Form:
Rhyme
The Dark Side of OctoberThe Dark Side of October
Late October moon is waking, through this cemetery shaking,
shaking as the cold wind breaking, walking ‘neath an old oak tree.
Stones like...
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Categories:
graves, dark, horror, october, scary,
Form:
Rhyme
The Loss of the Andrea GailThey that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters:
These see the works of the Lord and his wonders in...
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Categories:
graves, america, death, fishing, ocean,
Form:
Narrative
Toilers At the TrenchPlunging, lifting, plunging -as wind blew ashes all around -
the shovels' blades incised the cold and black encrusted ground.
Attached to shovel handles were the arms...
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Categories:
graves, history, sad,
Form:
Couplet
Robot RevolutionAbandon futile attempts to run
Behold the process has begun
Step toward your darkest fear
Let’s flip the switch to a new frontier
Penetrating deep within
Evacuate your mortal sin
This...
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Categories:
graves, computer, dark, science fiction,
Form:
Rhyme
Insanity Or DeathInsanity or Death
Life begins with insanity~~
~Your soul is kicking and screaming,
Ready to exit with the touch of human hands.
Insanity rides on a gallant stallion...
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Categories:
graves, abuse, adventure, art, how
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Categories:
graves, society, war,
Form:
Ballad
God Bless AmericaIn the courts of sport and entertainment
They have forgotten the scales of justice
Lacking honor for those who gave life and limb
Sacrificing blood, and buried with...
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Categories:
graves, america, basketball, death, dedication,
Form:
Free verse
Moonlight MagicThe night was fickle as November
A time when all sleep in slumber;
A moist mist hangs over the river,
And a still cold moon hangs as a...
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Categories:
graves, seasons, light, light, silver,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
graves, grave, home, journey,
Form:
Light Verse