Best Mass Grave Poems
Below are the all-time best Mass Grave poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of mass grave poems written by PoetrySoup members
RamondaMauve sweetheart of mountains
your petals pulse twilight and scatter small stars
amongst scars, whilst wars rage on the world's dark stage
and the stage disintegrates, becomes a...
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Categories:
mass grave, flower, hope, love,
Form:
Alliteration
The Black Hills Wept For TheeThe Black Hills wept for Thee
East of the Black Hills of South Dakota,
On the Pine Ridge Reservation,
Live a proud tribe of Oglala Lakota,
Part...
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Categories:
mass grave, betrayal, blessing, children, december,
Form:
Ballad
The RiderIn a mass grave so long ago,
They spoke to me before they died,
I saw their souls, the outward flow,
All hope buried beneath that tide.
The many...
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Categories:
mass grave, humanity, mythology, sad,
Form:
Quatrain
They Call It Wounded KneeThey Call It Wounded Knee
I came, I saw, I cried;
To the field where they died.
They call it Wounded Knee;
My peoples' history.
Bodies lying, frozen to...
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Categories:
mass grave, america, death, history, native
Form:
Classicism
The UniformI noticed the uniform, and the heavy soled shinny black boots
Not the man within it, I apologized.
I remember the clean fresh smell of maleness, as...
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Categories:
mass grave, political
Form:
Romanticism
Perfect Christmas GiftIn a beautiful land far across the ocean,
People used to celebrate Christmas all year round,
Trees along the streets adorned with flickering lights;
Down the cities were...
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Categories:
mass grave, celebration, christmas, imagination,
Form:
Ballad
The Legend of Leap CastleTHE LEGEND OF LEAP CASTLE
In the dark shadows of the ancient past,
Creatures move within the kingdom of darkness,
Hidden illusions of faded forms of existence, roaming...
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Categories:
mass grave, evil, halloween, history, holiday,
Form:
Free verse
The Tolerant ManHe feels he possesses a high tolerance.
Living side by side
with those he abhors
Tolerating the smells
and the sounds
of those lesser men.
He is of a proud...
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Categories:
mass grave, bereavement, dark, hate,
Form:
Free verse
Climate Change and the Tales From the Victims of Typhoon YolandaThrough the storm surge and chaotic sky,
the scale of destruction: hell on earth,
towns flattened into a horrible wasteland,
the deluge created ghost cities...
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Categories:
mass grave, environment,
Form:
Classicism
Tales From the Victims of YolandaThrough the storm surge and chaotic sky,
the scale of destruction: hell on earth,
towns flattened into a horrible wasteland,
the deluge created ghost cities...
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Categories:
mass grave, environment,
Form:
Classicism
Categories:
mass grave, hyperbole, leadership,
Form:
Triolet
Mass GravesThere isn't a mass grave in my neighborhood
a creek has never flooded
(there is no creek, after all)
and bones have not surfaced.
A bulldozer never grinds to...
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Categories:
mass grave, death, depression, history, imagination,
Form:
Blank verse
Let Them Eat CakeThe Rich/the Super Rich/the One Percenters.
Then there’s the rest of us,
The Disappearing/Shrinking Middle Class.
Our “good paying “, American Dream financing jobs gone,
Overseas.
The Chinese/Japanese/Indian/Korean/Malaysian,...
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Categories:
mass grave, pain,
Form:
Free verse
Miklos Radnoti Translation of the Holocaust Poem Letter To My WifeLetter to My Wife
by Miklos Radnoti
translated by Michael R. Burch
A poem written during the Holocaust in Lager Heidenau, in the mountains above Zagubica, August-September, 1944
Deep...
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Categories:
mass grave, death, heartbreak, holocaust, humanity,
Form:
Free verse
Ceremony of Blood-BathCRISES IN THE DESERT
written in the effect of religious crisis in Nigeria
Our heart received the message
And tensions well-positioned themselves in the sky.
Heads sought refuge at...
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Categories:
mass grave, deathreligious, religious,
Form:
Burlesque