Crematory Poems - Poems about Crematory

Eluding My Ressurection

...Eluding My Ressurection

Eluding the proposition of more work to be done 
Prelude to the inquisition that is blocking out the sun 
I can only conclude that the ammunition was hard fought and won ...

The Departing of the Heart

...The Departing of The Heart 

Salutations for the sound of mind and poverty of heart 
Reparations that don’t come through in time to rectify the start 
Commiserations for the ones who find it hard...

To Be a Poet

...To be a poet, a sagacious sage
Who spills his blood across the page
That  tells his tales in black and white
Where wrong is wrong and never right

He knows each breath could be his last
How qui...

Lying In My Crematory

...One day, my hair will turn gray,
And my skin will sag,
My legs will shiver when I walk;
And for the last time, I'll look back 
To the memories we made.

The way we shared our lives,
The way we...

On the Crest of a Wave

...Sometimes,
sailing in ebony blades
of saturnine seas 
brings forth a forsaken froth
of scarred reveries, 
when musk-ochre 
tints of sunshine cease 
to slice through solemn 
scarlet skies and ...

Zen Death Haiku Vi

...ZEN DEATH HAIKU VI

These are my modern English translations of Japanese Zen Death Haiku.

Both victor and vanquished are dewdrops:
flashes of light
briefly illuminating the void.
—Ouchi Yoaka...

Love Honor and Respect

...Love Honor and Respect
For Crowe's Mortuary and Crematory
By Franklin Price
02/08/2022

My wife was lifted up by God
While we held her by the hand,
With her, our daughter and myself,
As she l...

Life and Death

...Unknown, unseen, the invisible demon has arrived to annihilate 
Anybody out in open becomes a pray of his wrath
Soon gasping for breath, gone forever
Such is his might that no one dares to go near...

Matsuo Basho New Haiku Translations

...Matsuo Basho New Haiku Translations

Air ballet:
twin butterflies, twice white,
meet, match & mate
—Matsuo Basho, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch 

Denied transformation
...

I'Ve Been Working In the Crematory

...I've been working in the crematory,
All the livelong sob story,
Can’t you hear the gas jets breathing?
Play too close and you’ll get urned.
Plus we only queue up two-a-day,
So you could really m...

Red Frozen Flower

...This Poem about an instance of pain and plight of Sex workers.
Red Frozen Flower:

Multiple cars flashing the red lights,
Coating red lipsticks on street.

Decorated like a model,
Hair perfect...

Up In Flames

...

My daughter heard
a Decent Cool-lio smart phone stranger
(with an African sounding name)
give a four fifty one Fahrenheit warning
Some said: the fellow was loco insane
Others said, 
...

Monorhyme On Egoistic Head

...The world is full of fools’ theory
Listening to them I feel weary.
Such egoistic heads tell not to worry
And at our back talk oscillatory
Bad about us, creating a crematory
Where they bury their...

Living In the Dark

...
It is the night, in deepest dark, that death foretells
the demon heart in which all lonely feeling dwells.

Yet, in plain sight, our eyes can’t see what life impels,
emotion’s plea, our dee...

Behind the Barbed Wire

...Behind the barbed wire

Behind the barbed wire a cherry tree blooms:
bustling petals in the land of death.
Behind the barbed wire a gradient runs
between the scent of flowers
and the omnipresen...

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