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Best Tombstone Poems

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Premium Member Dancing With Death
A 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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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tombstone, death, life,
Form: Rhyme



The Widow Among Roses
The 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
Premium Member Untouched Orchard
She'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 Daid
Grey 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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© Red Fiery  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tombstone, depression, grave, storm,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Too Late For Tears
Oh, 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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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tombstone, absence, angst, death, mum,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member To War, From Youth
oh youth in all its callow shades
               is from our hope,...

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Categories: tombstone, war,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Dark and Tragic, When Fate Sets Its Black Hand To Decide
Dark 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
Premium Member 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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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tombstone, angst,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member This Forever Artist
Swiftly
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
Premium Member On Halloween Night
I 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
Premium Member My Ticket
this 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
Premium Member Harvest Inferno
Take 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
Premium Member Along the Shady Paths of Vivid Green
And 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 Breakage
High 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
Premium Member Pale Shelter
Ashen 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

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