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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


Premium Member Black Diamond Night
Black 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



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: graves, desire,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member In the Sun's Last Glow
On 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)
Premium Member Our Love Is Eternal
Our 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
Premium Member Once Upon A Time In Milton Creek
The 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



Premium Member Achilles, the Journey To Troy, Part Two
Achilles, 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
Premium Member The Dark Side of October
The 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
Premium Member The Loss of the Andrea Gail
They 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
Premium Member Toilers At the Trench
Plunging, 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 Revolution
Abandon 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
Premium Member Insanity Or Death
Insanity 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
Premium Member God Bless America
In 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 Magic
The 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
Premium Member The Devils Riddle
The 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

Book: Shattered Sighs