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Best Mortuary Poems

Below are the all-time best Mortuary poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of mortuary poems written by PoetrySoup members


In the Mortuary
When I lay in the mortuary, 
Don’t cry, smile and appreciate my journey.
Throughout life, at times, I lived wary.
I carried hope, love and even the...

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Categories: mortuary, death, grief, pain, poets,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Broken Hearted Monoku
Why is it called ECSTASY – your two friends lie in a mortuary.

I wrote this poem for my son who was devastated after the death...

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Categories: mortuary, heartbroken,
Form: Monoku
Dark Whispers
dark whispers took shape
                     ...

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Categories: mortuary, fear,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Death Comes
Death Comes

All arguments and denials were fruitless;
The deceased fell prey to the Master Thief.

The “One” whose icy-cold touch is . . .
Just Too Cold to...

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Categories: mortuary, change, dark, death, horror,
Form: Lyric
Transcendental Time
Incandescent illusions of massive transfusions
For we are all trapped in tautological time
There is no escape for when you awake
A punitive prisoner that has committed no...

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Categories: mortuary, time,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Chicken Little's Sad Demise - Fable
(7/5 Trochee Poem)

Chicken  Little, thinking that
sky was soon to fall,
saw a mortuary and
crawled beneath a pall.

He was in a strange dark box
where a dead...

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Categories: mortuary,
Form: Quatrain
The Legend of Robotoria
Upon this world in centuries long past, 
  Dwelt in woodland glades and pastures fresh, 
The spirit of Utopia was cast 
  By...

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© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mortuary, science fiction, world, dark,
Form: Verse
Swallowed Death
I wade the waterside enticing death.
The sea extols the brash to th’ outermost
Abyss. A ‘know it all’, I challenged this 
Watery host.

I capsized in the...

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Categories: mortuary, death, loss,
Form: Quatrain
Battle Rap
hey buddy, I have to tell you,
you stink just like rat pooh!
raw effluent smells so much better!
I wear a gas mask so I can breathe...

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Categories: mortuary, rap,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member From Where To There
Washed up on the beach

Laid out on a mortuary slab



My entry into Brian's " SPACES " contest...

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Categories: mortuary, life, loss, sad
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Mocking Dance of the Dead
Written: September 19, 2023
Mocking The Dead Poetry Contest           Sponsored by: Silent One 
"Do not be...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mortuary, analogy, bereavement, death, giggle,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Series of Unfortunate Darwin Awards
The Darwin Awards are a posthumous honor, recognizing those who have improved the human gene pool by removing themselves from it by their own foolish...

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mortuary, death, humorous, silly,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Polish Woman Made Sure To Cancel Her Own Funeral
She was going to visit her old auntie at 91 years
  The sweet old aunt lived in her own home
  in the town of...

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Categories: mortuary, death, life,
Form: Narrative
The Cost of Education
Ossenburger, the business genius, 
when he graduated from college, 
he started a budget mortuary service.

Five dollars a corpse!
He was the Wal-Mart of death.
Burry ‘em, burn...

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Categories: mortuary, business, death, education, funeral,
Form: Free verse
Believe
When I was younger i was taught to believe in god
Now i wonder if i misunderstood, Whether it was all a mirage
Baptized in holy water...

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Categories: mortuary, depression, faith, introspection, spoken
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things