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Burials Poems - Poems about Burials

When Grief Turns To Grave
...No one told me the moment you parted. My disheartened heart left the room the moment I turned the corner, and saw his golden badge as he nodded in comforting dismay. That day My heart learned the......

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Categories: burials, death, grave, grief,
Form: Elegy
Ring Around The Rosie’
... {"-Every second of my life in which I cherish, So that I will never burden myself with the thought of you, I try so hard to cope with the idea of straying yourself away from me, of you not being th......

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Categories: burials, absence, abuse, addiction, anger,
Form: Free verse



September 17, 1862
...(Battle of Antietam, Sharpsburg, Maryland, September 17, 1862; 2,100 Union dead, 1550 Confederate dead) the day September seventeenth in eighteen sixty-two found stalks of corn in Maryland ......

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Categories: burials, america, history,
Form: Free verse
Sonnet to the eels
...Those tender eels you rescue by the shore bring you empty news from the deep; they aptly sing your sunken score, vivid sounds from the liver of your ship. You rely on your Sunday best to warm ......

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Categories: burials, beach, depression,
Form: Sonnet
The Hypocrisy of Life and Death
...The living to themselves gossip attract, but at death eulogies mitigate lies. Love and care from he who breathes is withdrawn, but his slumber does attract parties. Fake mourners with feigned t......

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Categories: burials, funeral, hyperbole, life,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme



Premium Member Funeral For An Alien
...Friends, Trumpians, EcoFeminists We gather here to no longer hear divisions across a win/lose zero-sum aisle so we can see revisions within a win/win nonzero-exponential future free of b......

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Categories: burials, culture, education, health, peace,
Form: Political Verse
Indebted Forever
...We are indebted seriously To all free spouts covered Whose nozzles hardly suspire And hanged up to rest in subsequent sighs But keep hoping the wait be over soon We are indebted seriously ......

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Categories: burials, art, dedication, funeral, god,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Utterly Despicable
...Isn't it about time that the West and NATO stepped in To put a stop to brutal aggression by Vladimar Putin Men bound and shot, with their hands tied behind their backs Enough is enough civilis......

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Categories: burials, conflict, death, evil, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme
Rhymes At Times
...I'm often called upon to write a verse for someone's birthday or a funeral, four or eight lines, rhyme scheme of ABAB or ABBA. But here are no rhyming line ends - those small, same-sound four-......

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Categories: burials, death, nonsense, poetry, word
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Science of Signs
...Signs Of Science Geometry Geomancy Dots connect Ensuing forms Enclosing spaces The dimensionalities Carved or drawn on sands Or written by melting of snows We are enclosed by this geometr......

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Categories: burials, analogy,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member Dance of Deliverance
...*Image of Ghana's Dancing Pallbearers by CGTN. Dance of Deliverance Portend looms gravediggers ere dusk Orange descend skies slipping purple Their courage ascend embolden husk Al......

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Categories: burials, beautiful, celebration, culture, dance,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Stonehenge and Georgia Guidestones
... Stonehenge is a famous monument in Britain a prehistoric mystery, architecturally sophisticated built in stages, the first part built 5000 years ago the unique Neolithic stone circl......

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Categories: burials, history,
Form: Free verse
Returning To Abnormal
...What if this is the start of the end all those happy its over deceived death broken down in percentages lets all go back to the hells we had call me pessi mystical-thats a joke so many alone bur......

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Categories: burials, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Wolf Howl
...Release your look away at the horizon. And notice the people straining on the stoves. Arranging the days and the routes. Bereaved, surrounded by total silence. The waves slammed a......

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Categories: burials, allusion, angst, assonance, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
A Very Old Abandoned Church
...Walking hand in hand we pass a Very old and abandoned church That people gave up praying in So many, many years ago. Oh, my! The stories it could tell Of births and deaths and tragedies And sa......

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Categories: burials, change,
Form: Free verse

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