Best Headstones Poems

A lattice of vines covers this resting place
Some headstones fallen, lying in the grass, 
That I drift back into hedges of   t i m e, 
Where markers seem to hum life’s stories. 
 
This quiet glade, an archive on a ridge, 
keeps secrets...

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I've walked up and down the rows; skipped a few, then went back to look
Since I was seven, this ritual continues; A routine going on more than 51 years
A sad silence as I look across the grounds, always the rush of tears

As I read each...

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six writers in a cemetary
each scribbling at the ears of the others
focusing through drunken desire
what could be better?
these casscadeing lines, 
broken sonnets
shouted into fields of dead
cracked headstones & unfinished thoughts
Where have i been?
so many years squandered
i've sat here before,
in this very spot
& felt that somehow,...

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plywood windows dusty streets faded graffiti...

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HEADSTONES AND CHATTELS 

‘Twas pure chance that I discovered
Just the other day,
A place passed 
Countless times,
Never had the thought of calling in,
Inner thoughts and misplaced fears
Oh there must have been countless other reasons
For one to just go there inside,
But however on this particular day,
I stopped,
I...

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Headstones
By Michelle Morris
12/01/2023

We put headstones
On the graves of our loved ones
Names and dates and epitaphs
That cannot summarise a life

That dash in between the dates
The dash that encapsulates everything
And nothing of human existence
Except joining two dates of significance

For almost everyone knows 
When they are born
A starting...

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"In the garden built on a graveyard. The death of every flower added a little more life to the hearts of the corpses, buried deep inside."
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Following are a number of funny headstones
“Don't forget to feed the cats" but she doesn't like bones
Or, “Damn it's dark down here”
Hope you can find the beer
“Think I'm running on empty” another hilarious stone...

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White Headstones
by Bob Moore-14/09/20230

Until you see those white headstones
all standing, row by row,
until you feel the silence
then you will never know,
just what it was, these young men,
thought, as they marched away,
never thinking they may not return
to their families one day.

They marched away, into the fight,
not...

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The headstones,
At their 
Silent graves,
Whisper to
The windless caves...

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Born two centuries yesteryear
A young pair who passed through Ellis
Built a frame home with rose trellis
Intertwined blooms like them bound dear.
Last roses on their headstones rest,
Grandparents by whom I was blest.

Bitesize Poem no52 Poetry Contest...

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pink granite headstones
white cross above resting bones
down with Davy Jones
ashes thrown to the four winds
places death’s journey begins

where their spirit is
under massive pyramids
led by Osiris
not toward the Pearly Gates
where just Saint Peter awaits

stored in a grotto
angels singing vibrato
chanting staccato
entombed under earthen mounds
where their artifacts are...

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