Cortege Poems - Poems about Cortege

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...

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 ...

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-...

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...

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...

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 ...

Powerful Sun King

...When  king  Sun outbreaks,
  preludes immense cortege:
   rays, lights,  heat, colors ......

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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