Best Laid To Rest Poems
Below are the all-time best Laid To Rest poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of laid to rest poems written by PoetrySoup members
Laid To RestTears no longer come,
dried ducts of wrung emotion,
denied one more drop of release.
... but only to feel
Feel your finite presence beside me,
inhaling your sweet...
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Categories:
laid to rest, bereavement, best friend, death,
Form:
Free verse
Where the White Rose BloomsThe single white rose captured the old gardener's attention,
He lovingly cared for it, like it was his own grand-daughter,
The roses were just like family and...
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Categories:
laid to rest, death, funeral, garden, heaven,
Form:
Quatrain
Flight To MidnightO albatross guide my loosed soul
from the shipwreck seized by sandy shoal
persuasive Polar Star in quiet pull
a sailor’s tired eyes gone dark
I...
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Categories:
laid to rest, angel, beauty, death, forgiveness,
Form:
Verse
My Butterfly A perfumed breeze with summer lavender
Shapeless smoked clouds had come and gone
Through verdant valleys I strolled along
Honeycombed hues warmed the new...
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Categories:
laid to rest, lost love,
Form:
Free verse
Mimes At My FuneralWhen my time is done and I am finally laid to rest
I don’t want to be recalled as one who lived life depressed
So as I...
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Categories:
laid to rest, funeral, funny, humor, life,
Form:
Couplet
A Former Great Nations Squandered Wealth ISwept up into piles; everywhere
Abouts; in collected heaps all
Around. ...
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Categories:
laid to rest, philosophy, senses,
Form:
Rhyme
The Sun That Parts the CloudsThrough frayed seams a rosy dream bleeds
needled and re-stitched
with threads of time and love and hope..
and still — a rosy dream bleeds
the...
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Categories:
laid to rest, age, emotions, fear, hope,
Form:
Free verse
Our Final TestOur final test will be graded
When our breath has dissipated
Life itself is our final test
Final grade when we’re laid to rest
Taking the test may make...
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Categories:
laid to rest, death, heaven, judgement, life,
Form:
Sonnet
Categories:
laid to rest, conflict, hero, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Etheree of SeasonsSpring
summons
season of
rebirth, where birds
build nests for new-borns.
Nature's palette spreads joy
as bright colours flourish with
buttercups, daffodils, bluebells,
blooming with rows of vibrant tulips.
Golden orb begins to spread...
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Categories:
laid to rest, appreciation, nature, seasons,
Form:
Etheree
The Instincts of InnocenceI reflect upon a word -
Innocence
To understand more fully what it means,
I think of what it conjures up for me -
childhood times...
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Categories:
laid to rest, innocence, religion,
Form:
Prose
What Easter Means To MeI followed you from Galilee
To that sad day on Calvary
Of love You spoke
New hope You...
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Categories:
laid to rest, faith, holidayheart, easter, heart,
Form:
Rhyme
Life's Fading Light-Part 2-Heroic Crown of SonnetsAlone
For in the end it's just one soul that's passed.
Alone I'll lie in sod of greenest grass
to answer for the sins that I've amassed
at gates...
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Categories:
laid to rest, age, love,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Three Days PriorFriday, three days prior;
The Son was scourged and bleeding.
Sunday, when He rose again-
A spotless Lamb proceeded.
Friday, three days prior;
The Son had cried: “forsaken?”
Sunday, when He...
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Categories:
laid to rest, christian, easter, god, good
Form:
Rhyme
In Fields of SummerThe breeze has stirred the trees with tender strains
of promises. Refrains we could not keep.
But left behind, a fervent song remains,
in fields of grass,...
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Categories:
laid to rest, beauty, i love you,
Form:
Sonnet