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Corpse Poems - Poems about Corpse

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Premium Member Three Travelers
...On a dark and lonesome road On a dark and stormy night There were three hellbent travelers Just out looking for a fight After closing down the bar Saw a boy standing in the road So they pull......Read the rest...
Categories: corpse, death, fire,
Form: Rhyme



Winter Bear
...The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you ~ Rumi To me, you were my youth. The remainder of my childhood dreams, the obscure smiles of benign warmth the gentle whispers to a tear so......Read the rest...
Categories: corpse, beauty, first love, innocence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To a Dead Mouse
... I Friend, whatever brought your life to end had no appetite for mouse flesh, nudged your small gray body on its side with a thorough sniff and left your corpse exposed on the asphalt path, ......Read the rest...
Categories: corpse, in memoriam,
Form: Free verse
Africanism:Rise
... The ancestral savannahs of my people Are still alive in the unseen horizons Our grandparents have told us many Wonderful things about our tribe Before they arrived, we were here On the banks......Read the rest...
Categories: corpse, africa, confidence, courage, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Life
...Like a great beast Its age set course Futures the feast Exits ones corpse......Read the rest...
Categories: corpse, analogy, death, future, growing
Form: Acrostic



Premium Member Mus Musculus
...Amidst summer’s day Post middle school finale In the concrete valley A vanguard viking lay We gathered as a ragtag crew Peeled his corpse off the floor Carrying him, despite the gore. To the......Read the rest...
Categories: corpse, boat, childhood, death, memory,
Form: Rhyme
April 9th, 2024 would be ninety fifth birthday poem for dearly departed papa
...April 9th, 2024 would be ninety fifth birthday poem for dearly departed papa The following words crafted soon after the soul of me daddy set adrift into the empyrean realm joining the rank and fil......Read the rest...
Categories: corpse, absence, age, anniversary, april,
Form: Rhyme
Mermaid Epitaphs
... As heartrose epitaphs swathe earthly echoes with swelled up w a v e s of spiritual sirens, sea-fairies collide with honeysuckle footprints, traced by mint-green manta rays al......Read the rest...
Categories: corpse, deep, destiny, emotions, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Vampires and Mosquitos
...Vampires and Mosquitos, they’re both out for blood each in their own way, one sucks the life out of you and the other just wants a taste But when it pertains to love there is a big difference betwee......Read the rest...
Categories: corpse, dark, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Beg for Love
...By Cherbo Geeplay “Don’t die,” his mother cried by his hospital bed, weeping. “I will be fine,” he managed to mutter under thick breath, the stars visible as he stared at the c......Read the rest...
Categories: corpse, black african american, class,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dawn Never Dies
...I was a red-violet, sunny morning person, usually up at the crack of dawn, When orange light poured from the east, upon revival, dewy green lawns. With a cup of aromal coffee, I'd watch y......Read the rest...
Categories: corpse, beauty, color, fantasy, morning,
Form: Couplet
I Wish this was a Joke
...I am in love again I never thought I'd see the day It was among things I had forgotten How to feel in eigth grade The first time that I met him I was seventeen And for a reason unannounced A......Read the rest...
Categories: corpse, 8th grade, best friend,
Form: Rhyme
In Which the Tick's Head isn't Removed Along with the Body
...smoke sour and singed crawls from my lips. too deep I did go, now I’ve lost my wit. In a graveyard of ticks, I’ve dug my own bed. They drain me alive, then leave me with heads. Detached from th......Read the rest...
Categories: corpse, heartbreak, heartbroken,
Form: Rhyme
The Green and the Black
... Child of floor and shackle mocks, a cooperation of physic-circumstance. A stalwart drag, stale wart brags. Dungeon, so damp, the bottom feeding vampires in vitro. Morph of mind sired, ......Read the rest...
Categories: corpse, art,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Easter
...Easter Anointed Eternity Rises up above the paschal dawn Heaven’s wounded Prince returns to outshine glory As the sun blushes – witness to His splendor – Waters from His wounded side christen ......Read the rest...
Categories: corpse, easter, jesus, joy, life,
Form: Free verse

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