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Charnel House Poems - Poems about Charnel House


Nothing There
...You left. I’m not full of anything but nothingness. It’s an interesting feeling, nothingness. It hurts so badly you’d think something was there. But when I check, it’s empty. There’s nothing there.......

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Categories: charnel house, dark, death of a
Form: Free verse
On Looking At Schiller's Skull Translation Goethe
...ON LOOKING AT SCHILLER’S SKULL by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Here in this charnel-house full of bleaching bones, like yesteryear’s fading s......

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Categories: charnel house, best friend, body, death,
Form: Free verse



No Mark
...No Mark by Michael R. Burch A wave implodes, impaled upon impassive rocks... this evening the thunder of the sea is a wild music filling my ear... you are leaving and the ungrieving ......

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Categories: charnel house, break up, change, divorce,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Unknown
...The Unknown While standing on a razor-edge end of my mortal time, I’m not sure of what lies beyond and what I shall find. Death’s dead, cold eyes stare me down now, as I wait; My spirit sweat......

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Categories: charnel house, death, evil, god, heaven,
Form: Lyric
Hard Lessons Before Cgi
...It happened many years ago, just after World War ll. When I was just a little girl with lots to see and do. A visit to my cousin's house, ten miles northeast of town, Would cause the frown upon my......

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Categories: charnel house, dark, death, sad, scary,
Form: Dramatic Verse



If Tomorrow Never Comes
...If tomorrow never comes my heart will be kept in your hands you remember me when sword is seen by my words will never lie like an eunuch wind i tried hard to discard those ugly image of war fro......

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Categories: charnel house, anger,
Form: Elegy
Charnel House
...a clock strikes twelve - - the old charnel house door creaks open for Tracie’s Scary Ku contest......

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Categories: charnel house, mystery,
Form: Haiku
Ossuary
...There high on an outcrop of sun bleached rock A skull and bone house please no feign of shock Resting a place following the charnel house of life Layered guests welcomed from past time be it hu......

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Categories: charnel house, allegoryhouse, house,
Form: Couplet
Night Terror.
...Night Terror. You need no introduction. Into my slumber, With skulking cats eyes. Now, You build a charnel house. Bricks and mortor, sinister. Laying claim to my dreams. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~......

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Categories: charnel house, sad
Form: Personification
Galactic Gothic
...The Age of Man Is but a brief, abbreviated span Of seconds ticking in a moment’s course. Infinity: the final source Is like a charnel house, with cypress tree And yew and myrtle, growing in the ......

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Categories: charnel house, time
Form: Verse
Premium Member That Slow Green Burn
...Fire at the edge of the world. Eyes deep within the shoreless forest sea, Witnesses of most ancient ways Watch smoke rising from the approaching front Of treeless, naked land Stripped bare by bl......

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Categories: charnel house, nature, places, political, sad,
Form: Free verse
Les Mots, Les Vers, Le Pain
...words are not well today; starched you ate them up like bread in a box they slowly spoiled; parched charnel house for the unsavory dead. they’ve pickled long in quiet brine meaning chokes; for......

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Categories: charnel house, on writing and words,
Form: I do not know?

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