Best Skeleton Poems

i am the skeleton tree
bare branches where leaves
are suppose to be
i am the skeleton tree
bare bones and no flesh
not another me
i am the skeleton tree
thousands of ancesters
but not one child for me
i am the skeleton tree
the end of my fathers name
and so called legacy

yet i...

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 the dream painted itself sad ashen grey
a parched desert where rain never falls
this dark metaphor in her barren heart
loneliness whispering of love yet to call

bones of long lost hope on the ground
amid sands of uncountable empty years
she picked up the skull bleached white
all that...

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Morning fog was parting  for the day's performance,
and an audience of just me sat cross legged,
waiting for ghosts.
They appeared slowly, one by one.
Old whalers, freighters and, fifty yards out, 
slate grey bones scarred with burnt sienna,
a young trawler.
A Cormorant dried its wings on the...

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Cracking lifeless limbs.
Casting creepy dark shadows.
Illumined by moon...

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The skeleton

On the day you were born
I have bestowed upon you
We will spend together a lifetime
Without me inside you compare to glue
Like the cockroach who always hides
I can only be found deep inside the skin
I am not the one you find in the closet
I am...

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Well tickle me bum and call me Lucy
Got really great news, pay attention, it's juicy
Seems to lose weight
All you need do is wait
Eventually you'll be skeleton thin, quite spooky...

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Skeleton in my Closet 
  
I had many sleepless nights 
And walked a painful path 
Sorrow, heartache and pain 
I remembered from my past 
I've done many things 
I know wasn't right 
And the skeletons in my closet 
Came back to hunt my life...

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Afterlife Azaleas rise as apparitions 
Bony Buttercups bathe in blooming moonlight 
Cobweb Carnations cater to crystal chaos
Deathly Daffodils dance to the eternal dusty doors
Eerie Evening Primroses prance to ethereal exits
Frightening Foxgloves flame their foliage 
Ghostly Geraniums gleam and gallop over graves
Haunting Hydrangeas heighten hollow horrors
Ivory...

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TO PRESERVE YOUR HEALTH
   YOU MUST RESERVE YOUR DATE AND TIME
TO ENTER THE EMPIRE OF DEATH

“Arrête, c'est ici l'empire de la mort!"

      Sign in Paris Catacombs

SKELETON OF PARIS

i dared each dank step
into the catacombs of Paris
thank the Lord
each...

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Wrought liquid metal, hued in the fire's of hell,
Pored into a castings shell, then hammered well,
By the angry fists of Satan himself, behold the skeleton key.
Accursed by evil's malevolent spell, one size fits all,
No locked doors can resist against its turnings twist,
Opening unto the supernatural's...

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No leafy clothing -
Simplicity not foiled by
A cushion of sky.


Written on July 5, 2012
Gail DeBole
Skeleton Tree Haiku Contest...

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knobby tentacles
begging an angerly sky
dead by lightning bolt

©Kathryn McLoughlin Collins
July 5, 2012...

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Skeleton, Skeleton, Skeleton, Skeleton, Skeleton

Closets ablaze, melt my past reality. Lets push the 
boundaries to what is real and not rel for this clan 
you see.

Let's get over all that doesn't last cause the present moment
has come and gone. No more skeletons shout to death...

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~His Promise~ 
(Skeleton Key) 



Christ 
Came **And 
Rose 
And now 
He sits with 
God His Father 
And one day He'll return 
Need to be prepared all the time 
Because no one knows the day or the hour 
But He promised that He'll return 
And God...

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forest in winter
skeleton trees - nature’s own 
nudist colony

 
7/2/12...

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