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Cortege Poems - Poems about Cortege

Premium Member Graveyard
...Time's flowing tributary; the future changes the past. Our burial cortege concludes its course at the graveyard. Falling leaves collapse, crafting new fates; feel the weight of dust. S......

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Categories: cortege, allusion, anger, bereavement, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Full Moon Night
...As darkness descends like foggy mist, God turns on His ornate chandeliers. Attended by a cortege of starry maids, Full Moon arrives in her glowing raiment, Beckoning us heavenward to ......

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Categories: cortege, appreciation, beauty, moon, night,
Form: Verse



A Man
...He was a man of many parts, most of them didn't function too well. Born extraordinarily, labeled ‘disabled,’ he lived a life of boisterous solitude. Friends he had on the periphery of a wheel-......

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Categories: cortege, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Rhythm
...See them dressed in colors soldiers, regiment, British royal guards, guard bearskin, grandier guards, Buckingham palace guards dressed in scarlet red walking behind the queen’s casket and reminiscing......

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Categories: cortege, animal, death, destiny, endurance,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Death and a Coronation
...Over the west Sun dies, oozing blood, The hillside glows in a ruddy blaze, Pink and crimson fade slowly around, And a pallid shade taints the twilight haze. By and by, darkness desce......

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Categories: cortege, beautiful, death, moon,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Death and a Coronation
... Over the west Sun dies, oozing blood, The hillside glows in a ruddy blaze, Pink and crimson fade slowly around, And a pallid shade taints the twilight haze. By and by, darkness ......

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Categories: cortege, analogy, birth, night,
Form: Rhyme
Powerful Sun King
...When king Sun outbreaks, preludes immense cortege: rays, lights, heat, colors .........

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Categories: cortege, allegory, allusion, creation, extended
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Maze
...she had lost the plot long before in an insane labyrinth of her mind trapped in the rat race of high speed and the volume on full blast incarcerated shackled and straight jacketed thumb screws ......

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Categories: cortege, 5th grade, drug,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Social Distancing
...The earth seems flat and Godot decided to arrive on the scene Like a boil stuck on a pancake dressed as a trans gender carnival queen He carries a prophecy written on a tag hung from his should......

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Categories: cortege, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Talking To the Dead
...Mission half completed, I’d watch from behind a tombstone quite a distance away, the crowd gathered around my accomplishment for someone else’s final resting place. The cortege carried the coffin......

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Categories: cortege, death, life,
Form: Free verse
Walk the Path of Odin
...On a Snow Full Moon I walk the Path of Odin Like an initiate I wear only a white robe On a Snow Full Moon I walk the Path of Odin I am sacrificed I walk through the city streets followed......

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Categories: cortege, celebration, mystery, myth, mythology,
Form: Verse
Autumn Among the Stones
...I sit among the stones under a lowering October sky, longing to see more than others have seen, And tarry where the hurried have passed. And sit, remembering streets of earth, and hooped Bla......

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Categories: cortege, autumn, gothic,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Haiku Strings
... Haiku Strings autumnal cortege files in scarlet and orange under azure skies yellow evening beams pots of gold across the grass daylight early fades saffron harvest moon be......

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Categories: cortege, autumn, color, nature,
Form: Haiku
Lament of My Life
...My funeral cortege has reached its destination I see the serious visages of many, And sniffs from the hearts of my cherished few. My soul has a quick run through of my deeds Pride that I loved......

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Categories: cortege, abuse, death, husband, journey,
Form: Free verse
Mourning Has Broken
...I attended a funeral service today for someone's loved one. The room was full of garments of black, consoling gestures, and fond memories. Tears were shed, sobbing was heard...but grief cannot be a......

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Categories: cortege, bereavement, eulogy, faith, funeral,
Form: I do not know?

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