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Best Undertakers Poems


Premium Member The 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic
...In nineteen eighteen there was an outbreak of flu
Caused little concern, only affected a few
But it returned with a vengeance later that year
And the world over it caused widespread fear.

F......

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Categories: undertakers, natural disasters,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Lockdown
...Solitary sun in sapphire skies,
beams its rays upon Earth's radiance.
A tepid breeze flows between
daffodils and bluebells, gently rocking.

Spring is in the air,
yet streets remain silent.
Ma......

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: undertakers, angst, environment, hope, spring,
Form: Alliteration
Winter of Life
...A lonely coffin, bleak and bare,
with only undertakers there.
The vicar, saddened by the sight,
envisioned everlasting light,
and prayed a lost and loveless soul
could find salvation and be whol......

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© Jack Horne  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: undertakers, death,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member Four Walls
...Four walls


Stuck inside these four walls
The sky
The earth
The east
The west

Where does one run
Where does one hide
Four walls inside my head
Imprisoned by butterfly wings

Four hour......

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Categories: undertakers, angel, art, destiny, freedom,
Form: Free verse
The Evil Bloodline of Money
...There are many life species, on our planet
whose lives, are desperate and stressful
trying to cope with life, as we know it
dealing with strive, that is not normal

Humans have invented, this th......

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Categories: undertakers, corruption, earth, environment, health,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Faux Dough
...
Blowing up things, unfortunately,
Birth’s the printing of endless money.
By Gov’ments and world money makers,
That overwhelm global undertakers.

Yet we cry out that war is unsound,
That it s......

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Categories: undertakers, money, peace, war,
Form: Iambic Pentameter



Premium Member Foxtrot For People Or For Horses
...Foxtrot for dances or horses?
Both I suppose.
Who does it better?

Comparing them would be 
Like comparing onions to Lazy-boy-recliners,
Comparing lima beans to undertakers,

Comparing lavend......

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Categories: undertakers, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Light Verse
Mark Twain's Retort of Sort
...At odds about the undertakers fees, Mark Twain jeered:
	“There is a system of extortion going on here!” 
	What horrific prices to pay for just a box and hole
	When it's not the body we care about, bu......

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Categories: undertakers, funeral, funny, satire,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Death Wish Haiku a Musical History of Cigarettes
...DEATH WISH HAIKU (AS Musical History of Cigarettes)
L.S.M.F.T.
Snooky Lanson sang it clear
smoke in every ear.

From your Hit Parade,
Frank Sinatra blew the words one time
Didn't Fence Him In.......

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© Vee Bdosa  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: undertakers, adventure, angst, art, black
Form: Haiku
The Miracle
...Lift the wailing wood
Hammer the tortured nails
Place the ghostly steps
Below the battered rails

Invite those crazy strangers
Dressed in stranger clothes
Join the mighty miracle 
Ready to un......

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Categories: undertakers, allegory, angst, death, inspirational,
Form: Ballad
Octogenarian Wedding
...( Hum to the tune of "Get me to the Church on time!"

The old guy's getting married to a fat virgin,
Ding dong, the wedding hearse does shine!
That's what he gets for perving!
Get him to the mor......

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Categories: undertakers, farewell, funeral, grandfather, nonsense,
Form: Ghazal
The Nana Hex
...Every time I get happy
the Nana-Hex 
comes through.
A dog's canines 
change into chainsaws,
toothpicks turn into knives,
coral reefs diverge into dirty sponges,
a sandcastle into a mausoleum,
......

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© John Heck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: undertakers, lost love, lovetime,
Form: Free verse
The Lion King
...As the known hunter shut up the lion with his bullets.

The jungle lamented over another fallen king.

The other animals weep as the undertakers lift the King's casket to its apartment six feet d......

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Categories: undertakers, community, corruption, i love
Form: Prose Poetry
Die the Death
...DIE THE DEATH!
(Dona eis requiem sempiternam)

Die the death and transcend vanity
O poor vernal flesh and bone,
Waned out of this primal valley
And sink like the moon beyond the coast.

All e......

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Categories: undertakers, celebration, courage, death, destiny,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Monoku Monday - May 2021
..."Well, I Never"    posted 3 May 2021

Six musings on the word never...

you should never marry a tennis player      love means nothing to them

my wife t......

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: undertakers, humor, love,
Form: Monoku

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry