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Embalming Poems - Poems about Embalming

The Empty Hourglass
...Embalming your memory the funeral dragged on Returning the remnants that pain had prolonged The pallbearers stationed each side of the grave A grieving reminder that time — had ens......

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Categories: embalming, death, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Greatest Gift Ever Given
...This quiet night the earth was still. A Virgin birth would be fulfilled. A real bright star would lead their way, to a manger, so far away. The Magi's gifts were for a King. Frankincense , Myrrh......

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Categories: embalming, god, jesus, joy, love,
Form: Rhyme



Closer To The Heart
... Felicity balms in a vapor of gold, where the dawn silverly unfolds, as flagged standard- bearer showing, pregnancy of colors bold, of heavenly hue. Like dew on petals of hope- retu......

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Categories: embalming, art, color, deep, destiny,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Magnificent Masterpiece
... In toiling times the resilient state of self-discipline connects conscience with perennial precept in the algorithm of being with ego abandoned the meaning of life measured emotional......

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Categories: embalming, analogy, life, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Post-Mortem
...Their hands glide across his skin like death The coolness of hands, without emotion, felt by none 'It burns, it freezes, it hurts so much, make it stop' Is what he would say had he one breath of l......

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Categories: embalming, anxiety, dark, death, deep,
Form: Free verse



Disappearance
...DISAPPEARANCE Light baptised my forsaken body red whirling a glimmering ocean Perseidon’s crystalline tears drip-dropped into mine manifesting oyster shells Odysseus smiled blinking ......

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Categories: embalming, deep, emotions, growth, heartbreak,
Form: Bio
Premium Member You Name It
...The classic names of nursing homes make me want to puke and groan How about 'Celestial Gardens?' great place to dump your 'burden' Then there's 'Sunset Terrace' at sundown, f......

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Categories: embalming, care, identity, image, satire,
Form: Couplet
Worried Outlooks - In Manitoba
...Summer grasses, soft blown. As deep therein Of a sweet embalming Lie; on sleep's brink. Its this visual leisure Now stood up for Plain's dreamy farness, does more Such to blur; shrink.......

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Categories: embalming, peace,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Chapter 93 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: the Affluent Festive Funeral Family Reunion
...There was a twenty minute lull Before the paramedics arrived to Remove Greatgrand Dad's corpse. When the paramedics Arrived they examed Greatgrand And confirmed the family's dread. Damian a......

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Categories: embalming, birth, life,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Tear
...“From the shattered heart the streams of sorrow with the shards of dream drowned in tears flow.” – By Poet The cloud of gloom hovers over the sea of sorrow, surges in distress tempest ......

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Categories: embalming, analogy, sorrow,
Form: Rhyme
Inevitable Death Defines Life
...Inevitable death defines afterlife I mull mortality thru lens crafted occipital orbs regarding a better future experience sing a space oddity – whar incessant yaks exuding a big hurt emana......

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Categories: embalming, absence, allah, angel, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Christmas Thoughts From My Friend
...when I went through the living room they had turned the lights off on the tree, all but the star, sitting at the very top of the tree above all the ornaments, still shining brightly in the midst of t......

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Categories: embalming, fate,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Uncle, the Embalmer
...My Uncle Lotcha was an embalmer, you see, He took care of all the dead in our family Exactly what he did was always a mystery to me When he was busy embalming, we let him be. We knew ......

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Categories: embalming, childhood, jobs, mystery, relationship,
Form: Monorhyme
Treasure Box
...Dead white roses fade embalming to ivory and delicate lace These tears fall with thoughts like leaves How they fill heart’s green grass patch (9/17/2022)......

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Categories: embalming, remember,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Perchance To Dream
...Do you ever look forward to falling asleep... In hopes of escaping into sweet dreams so deep? :) If you dread nightmares, careful what TV you watch (My advice: E.W.T.N. is topnotch!) Could re......

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Categories: embalming, bible, cheer up, death,
Form: Couplet

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