Best Tombstone Poems
Below are the all-time best Tombstone poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of tombstone poems written by PoetrySoup members
Dancing With DeathA raven sits alone, perched upon a tombstone,
humming an eerie tone, which is sombrely known.
This deadly treachery is disturbing my reverie.
A shadowy energy, ready for...
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Categories:
tombstone, death, life,
Form:
Rhyme
The Widow Among RosesThe widow among roses,
though a scent so sweet
she smells to near smile,
how red the vibrance of life
and soft the petals caress
her lonely cheek,
she remembers...
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Categories:
tombstone, death, depression, lost love,
Form:
Classicism
Untouched OrchardShe's untouched fruit
from forbidden orchards
barren and wrinkled
with fragmented twigs,
whirling to the beat
of melancholic musings
of black-winged butterflies
that croon and reflect
the true tragedy of a...
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Categories:
tombstone, crush, cute love, love,
Form:
Free verse
Dark Clouds - a Collaboration With Liam Mc DaidGrey clouds the innocent sky ambushing light turns dark
stumbling over a tombstone opening up cold graves
When eyes become frozen behind scenes in hidden truth...
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Categories:
tombstone, depression, grave, storm,
Form:
Free verse
Too Late For TearsOh, my brother..
I can see storms causing havoc in your eyes.
All you can do is stare,
seeking comfort from a tombstone.
Beautiful marble cannot reach out to...
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Categories:
tombstone, absence, angst, death, mum,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
tombstone, war,
Form:
Epic
Dark and Tragic, When Fate Sets Its Black Hand To DecideDark And Tragic, When Fate Sets Its Black Hand To Decide
Icy cold had invaded, her heart became a hard frozen tomb
Never again would she allow...
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Categories:
tombstone, bereavement, betrayal, dark, death,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Raining in Summer
If the sun married the rain - It would become a rainbow (quote by poet)
This aquamarine aquarium is a prismatic prison,
reflecting a reality of a...
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Categories:
tombstone, angst,
Form:
Alliteration
This Forever ArtistSwiftly
On a rainbow
Rode the moonlight
Surfing on the river’s drifting leaves
Afloat upon the hopes
Of spinning dandelions
Creeping through the gray
Of tombstone chill
Shadowing the sundials darker side.
Mingling amid...
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Categories:
tombstone, allusion, art, poets, writing,
Form:
Free verse
On Halloween NightI hear the October winds whispering and I think it knows,
as the witching hour arrives and a harvest moon glows,
only once a year, do we...
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Categories:
tombstone, celebration, death, family, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme
My Ticketthis is not just a poem
this is my ticket out of here
these are not just words
there steps taking me somewhere
this isn't just a page in...
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Categories:
tombstone, hope, me, society,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
Harvest InfernoTake me to the tombstone
let me touch the gray stone that stands
where life could not
I will put my face to that touchstone of deaf...
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Categories:
tombstone, birthday, creation,
Form:
Epic
Along the Shady Paths of Vivid GreenAnd the cemetery was fresh and vivid green
when we took our bikes down the paths of it -
past stones and trees and mausoleums and...
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Categories:
tombstone, sad,
Form:
Narrative
Revive the BreakageHigh upon the highest heights
I see the most tremulous sight
A small girl, fair and tranquil
Smiling strangely, sitting still
Beneath a sobbing willow tree
She recites a verse...
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Categories:
tombstone, allegory, death, devotion, forgiveness,
Form:
Rhyme
Pale ShelterAshen was the sky
That rejected hand of sunrise
Sullen was the heart
That stumbled in affection,
Incapable of lauding
Ruby blush of budding rose
And pink passions on horizon
Defying...
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Categories:
tombstone, angst, love,
Form:
Free verse