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Day Of The Dead Poems - Poems about Day Of The Dead

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Premium Member Will She Return on Day of the Dead
...My great great grandmother could not wait. Day of the Dead was two weeks away. She visited me on the 16th of October. I was sworn to secrecy, but they knew. Because I somehow knew how to do thi......Read the rest...
Categories: day of the dead, november,
Form: Blank verse

Premium Member day of the dead mushroom tree
...Day of the dead mushroom tree Around and around skulls looked at me I feel their spirits have gone off to play And yet they still creep me out today Three skulls drawn on by a skilled hand I h......Read the rest...
Categories: day of the dead, november,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dia de los Muertos
...Dia de Los Muertos Day of the Dead Originated by Aztecs Celebrated in Mexico and Philippines Aztecs called it Miccaihuitl Catholics call it All Saints Day and All Souls Day I call it Day of t......Read the rest...
Categories: day of the dead, travel,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Day of Death
...first freeze of winter to insects, “Day of the Dead” cycle completed ......Read the rest...
Categories: day of the dead, death, humor, insect, nature,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Mocking the Dead
...The splendorous span of my fervent firmament, twinkled with the tinsels of the cerulean night, where my yearning gleamed with transparent tinge, suffused with the sequins of the silver m......Read the rest...
Categories: day of the dead, analogy, death, dream,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member Cupid
...Cupid Herself sings to us a love song, hoping to infuse in hearts, love and light, that we enter heaven, where we belong but since demonic fear is our soul’s blight, cold heart notices not love’s......Read the rest...
Categories: day of the dead, love, spiritual,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member Day of the Skulls
...Las Pas Bolivia November 8th Day of the Skulls A bit different than Mexico’s Day of the Dead Prehispanic belief says people have seven souls One of them is located in the skull If they do not......Read the rest...
Categories: day of the dead, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member When I Die Make My Statue Tall
...Margaurita was always called challengingly short. In the afterliife I will be tall, she would retort. When I die, make my day-of-the-dead statue tall, she said. Give me a scary toothy face, and a ......Read the rest...
Categories: day of the dead, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Day of the Dead Honors
...November first, day of the dead Full of traditions, honoring the fallen We light a red candle at sunset Lay a table of food for the deceased Eat sugar skulls, signifying bringing dead to life wit......Read the rest...
Categories: day of the dead, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In Love With a Mexican Alebrijes
...I have fallen in love with a winged dragon alebrijes, Have to buy it of course, is it signed? What artisian created this piece of bright gorgeousness? I look for a signature. This phantasmagorica......Read the rest...
Categories: day of the dead, symbolism,
Form: Narrative
The Watchers Petition
...A boy is an undead While a girl is a leatherhead Mom and dad find a severed head The front yard is now flowing in red. What caused this bloodshed? From tombstones and crypts The moon disap......Read the rest...
Categories: day of the dead, adventure, courage, grave, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Holiday
...Day of the Dead candy skull on table child licks it......Read the rest...
Categories: day of the dead, child, holiday,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Day of the Dead
...weep not when we die don't let your life go awry for the time was nigh attributes were diminished the mortal course now finished words were all written no longer need to fit in worry what's......Read the rest...
Categories: day of the dead, day, death, destiny, farewell,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Day of the Dead
...La Cavalera Catrina 1910-1930: An etching by cartoonist and lithographer, José Guadalupe Posada Of a Garbancera, elegant skull, an upper-class woman of the Porfiriata Has become a char......Read the rest...
Categories: day of the dead, appreciation, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
Hank Williams
...You think country music’s so corny Well each to their own tastes and views Give me a cool stein full of Charlie Mit With Hank Williams singing the blues And I’ll paint you stories of life Of ......Read the rest...
Categories: day of the dead, dedication, drink, hero, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme

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