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Best Posthumously Poems

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


Premium Member The Loss of the Lifeboat, the 'Solomon Browne'
In the year ninteen eighty one on the nineteenth day of December
A day the town of Mousehole in Cornwall, will always remember
An R.N.L.I. Watson class...

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Categories: posthumously, boat, death, people, rain,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Light Years
LIGHT YEARS


Some advance before their time, they
Shine so bright they seem to blind.

Those who undermine can never see,
Unless they change their frequency
Dull minds, can never...

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Categories: posthumously, future, wisdom,
Form: Verse
Premium Member I Do Not Like You Folk
I do not like you folk                   ...

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Categories: posthumously, funny, poems, satire, word
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Gypsy Eyes
The pierce, the flame of gypsy eyes, that roam
    about your cheeks aflame, that throb at knees.
     ...

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Categories: posthumously, sensual,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Death Row Blues
He’d spent nearly a decade on death row
Praying for appeals that were not bestowed
     Had a solid alibi
   ...

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Categories: posthumously, satiredeath, death,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member The Strange Case of Ft
"The Strange Case of F.T."



They say the dead don’t talk
the stories I have calculated
to deliver a saving grace 
confessional shared amongst 
my equal peers, or...

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Categories: posthumously, dark, horror, poets,
Form: Narrative
Just Visits
Just Visiting

While my visiting days are over,
I am left with another gift,
Fantasizing as a butterfly
Landing softly on a cruise ship.

I don’t drive down the Texas...

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Categories: posthumously, age, fantasy, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Save Him From Delilah's Deliverance
???•?SAVE HIM FROM DELILAH'S DELIVERANCE?•???
 
Who is being delivered here?
Who is the one that needs the deliverance?
Is it the deliverer or the "deliveree"
who seductively came...

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Categories: posthumously, 1st grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member W-Death Mystery of Subhash Chandra Bose-1897-1945
Described as “patriot of patriots” by Mahatma Gandhi
His Words, ‘Give me blood and I shall give you freedom’
Are still ringing in the minds of each...

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Categories: posthumously, august, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Back Door Side Door Front Door : Which Door Might a Confucian Take
Back Door Side Door Front Door : Which door might a Confucian take
 
..................for René ETIEMBLE (Jan. 26, 1909 – Jan. 7, 2002)*

In homage -...

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Categories: posthumously, books, eulogy, french, poems,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member From a Criminal To a War Hero
True story, my uncle was a famous safe cracker

Before becoming a soldier in World War I

Known to police in New York City for robbery

The army...

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Categories: posthumously, hero,
Form: Narrative
I Wait With Bated Breath
I Wait With Bated Breath...
(slack jaw froze mine countenance
when eyes blinded with figurative
daggers asper mistakes in original draft,
hence...this flood proof, fire resistant,
and fever reducing error...

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Categories: posthumously, 12th grade, 9th grade,
Form: Free verse
World War One One Hundred Years Later
WORLD WAR 1 ONE HUNDRED YEARS LATER 
(AMERICAN VERSION)
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS


Patriotic songs give us reason to cheer
Except when “over there” is over here
Living underground is...

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Categories: posthumously, memorial day, war,
Form: Rhyme
Anne Girvan's Decree
At the heart of Marescaux Road’s maroon and gold,
Lived a timid girl whose pitted dreams longed to unfold.
An inner-city teen with a spirit that gleamed,
But...

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Categories: posthumously, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Ode
Animation
Animation I grew up with,
Bride of fantasy stories.
Comedy with action I watch,
Death of worries I snatch.
Earth of penitence is
Fist of imagination I sense.
Girdle of suffocation,...

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Categories: posthumously, color, feelings, fun, inspiration,
Form: Abecedarian

Book: Shattered Sighs