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Burials Poems - Poems about Burials

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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 Love and care from he who breathes is withdrawn, but his slumber does attract parties.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......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
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 ......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
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-......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
Categories: burials, change,
Form: Free verse
At the Foot of the Unknown Soldier
...At the foot of the unknown soldier I heard them speak about the past The generation born after the war I heard them sing of warfare Like children recite rhymes I heard their threats of war Ev......Read the rest...
Categories: burials, africa, angst, betrayal, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Why Are You So Loud
...there comes a time when people you once respected reveal or you discover the real person behind the mask face facts people who never wanted you to do better than them are now wishing tha......Read the rest...
Categories: burials, anger, betrayal, black african
Form: Free verse
The Virus's Leveling Effect
...The naked truth sprinkles holy water at curfew hours with touch of morbidity. I'm on the brink of shortages -- of food and faith, parading before my eyes the endless stream of bodies dispatched t......Read the rest...
Categories: burials, anger,
Form: Prose
Pity the Shovel That Buries the Light
...I am not a geomancer but I do sometimes read earth on a new grave, how it struggles to represent even though it’s thrown haphazardly; yet still, let the wind, sun and rain shape it and......Read the rest...
Categories: burials, poetry,
Form: Free verse

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