Best Gravestone Poems

"Here am I, 
finally alone"
says this gravestone
placed on my bones.

I wonder why...

How long I have to sigh
under its monotone
grave good-bye?

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Just a poem, nothing more :)

May 25, 2017 
Copyright © Darren White...

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winter gravestone
dash between dates
father's life
the upstairs transmitter
where you rocked the world with code*...

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A few simple words
chosen with care; etched in stone.
You’ll be remembered....

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winter gravestone
hyphen between dates
my father's life...

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On my grave stone it will read
"Here lies Jessica full of scorn
she'll never know why she was born
she hated living in a world so cruel 
in a world that never cared at all
she wanted to run but she was paralized
she glew in the dark cause...

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Here lies Melanie Walker.
A legendary hooker of old.
Her customers must have loved her
because they bought her a coffin of gold....

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Walking among a thousand graves
you will notice a white cross
over a granite gravestone;
he was the youngest soldier
to be buried and ended up alone;
but in someone's heart, he still lives!

A white cross is a symbol of faith
that stands out from all the others,
the true devotion of...

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Gravestone

I never believed in gravestones
A stone left to show your passing
Just a name and some dates
Left standing alone for all time
A place for people to come and cry
They tell you how much they miss you
But that fades and you are left all alone
Yet, a gravestone...

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Soon after he died
on his gravestone they inscribed:
Born naked, ugly, bald,
died inconsolably appalled.
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Gravestones lopsided
Forgotten behind the trees 
Surrounded by grass
Sun crosses risen from earth 
Crowned with some olive green mosh...

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The black ravens’ peer deep into the darkness; 

Bracing upon cold marble and granite stone, 

Beneath the ghostly moon's shadows in starkness. 

Gray as gray, the ravens’ mock upon its groan 

Absence of light and nostalgic clandestine. 

Bleak night and nothing more wreathe the granite...

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Deaths hand dealt
	fire
		flung with fury
	towards fractured souls
		that felt
	life reduced
to fragmented parts

Crows feet
	walked on strange places
		following
	a lost trail
		leading
	from a desert oasis
		weathering
	its sand
		burning
them as they wept

Eyes
	pouring
		a river of faces
		currents of memories
	rolling
		on

Tears
	break
		the dam of dreaming
	that held back the reading
		of gravestone

Infinite space
	for last tear
		falling
	always
		falling
	towards the ground

forever
		embracing
	nights
		eternal
	sound...

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The other half of me 
Explains what others see
But only few know that half 

That I choke and bleed between every laugh 
That there's a king behind the gaffe  
That there’s pain in every paragraph 

And those who know 
Don't know where I'll go...

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Beneath rugged oak tree's shade, and the voice of  nature's mirth; 
Evergreen wreaths tied with red velvet bows lean back in repose, 
Adorn thousands of soldier's headstones laid to rest upon the lap of earth. 
A rhythmic verse passing tribute etched on each reflect...

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