Grave Poems - Examples of all types of grave poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read
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QUARANTINEQuality time at home has turned into a nightmare.
Under the smile, I’m hiding the true panic for me, for my family, for my
community, for my world.
Are we ever going...
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Categories:
anxiety, emotions, grave, home,
Form: Acrostic
Grand-Son-In-LawGRANDSON-IN-LAW
This wish is filled with lots of fun
For my grandson-in-law Andrew
He will turn 37 in the year of 2021
And will carry a few memories too
He married my granddaughter
Becoming my grandson-in-law
He is a loving husband...
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Categories:
grave, birthday, family, grandmother, grandson,
Form: Narrative
Sam Adams Woke Up DeadSam Adams Woke Up Dead
Sam Adams woke up dead
He had met a strange man
In a strange bar, in a strange land
The man told him
Beware, today is the date
You will meet your fate
Sam Adams drank too...
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Categories:
grave, age, allegory, death, evil,
Form: Free verse
Sorceress SupremeIt so happened some years ago,
a story of the past it seems,
the room was wide and huge,
absorbing the echoes of her screams.
Her tale is told in those corridors still,
where she roams, almost as if free,
the...
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Categories:
grave, abuse, angst, anxiety, gospel,
Form: Ballad
Monoku Monday - Some Grave Humor for Monday Mourning
take note: if you don't go to your friend's funerals they won't go to yours
some think our cemetery is nice but I wouldn't be caught...
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Categories:
grave, humor,
Form: Monoku
the half alive girls morning routineThe half alive girls morning routine
by americus
I wake up each morning, put on my silly mask, it can be such a soughtful task
Drain the water from my eyes, my brother complains about my cries
Watch the...
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Categories:
grave, anxiety, beauty, death, deep,
Form: Rhyme
Graveyard Angelswings unfurled in protection
eroded from surrounding rudiments
along a beacon of illumination
visage composed and serene
branching arms cradling cleaving souls
afraid to fade into eternal rest
gifts born from remembrance
weeping, wilting, worn
beneath a wandering ivy-covered guide
quiescent consignor of peace
beyond...
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Categories:
angel, grave,
Form: Free verse
C H A R - B R O I L E D F E A RHe’s lying down in a canopy of torture. Thinking how could soft powdery floral memories become so torturing. He dusts them off. Desperately. But they remain unruffled. Like braided wild allegories and herbal nuance of...
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Categories:
anxiety, grave,
Form: Prose Poetry
Ironic IconWrite on my gravestone.
It was a typing mistake.
Not a random skip.
Rather, it dropped correctly.
Was neater than other lines....
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Categories:
emotions, fate, grave, magic,
Form: Tanka
I Am the Green
Between the rows and rows of tombs of your beloved gone
I cover all the bones that lay beneath me_
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Categories:
grave, nature,
Form: Verse
Keep Believing I am not RealIt was all supposed to be mine. I bowed once, but refused to do it again for the lowly stupid small ones.
Exiled to my new land, I wandered back and forth, walking to...
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Categories:
angel, grave, religious, wisdom,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
White Crosswooden
cross along a
country road planted deep
in the ground where Spring has brought her
lilies
...
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Categories:
grave, death of a friend,
Form: Cinquain
Mild temperatures gradually melt snowMild temperatures gradually melt snow
I looked outside the bedroom window
here at B44 Highland Manor Apartments
today February 28th, 2021 low and behold
took stock of soundless grounded sideshow.
Barenaked lady, i.e. mother earth
partially sloughed off her downy soft...
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Categories:
anger, conflict, crush, grave,
Form: Rhyme
Grandfather GhostI just inherited an old creaky and rustic mansion.
It looks as if it’s “from the house of the dead”.
As I step in the house I felt creepy and freaky!
I see my hair rise on...
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Categories:
death, farewell, grave,
Form: Rhyme
Beckon
Speak to me in silence
or add color to your moat.
The Crocodiles glisten hungrily,
adorned, with a few laps more to go.
The rocks show a crystal promise.
Of your ebb and flow, water curtain
curtailed by still, a...
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Categories:
grave, beautiful, care, faith, garden,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Grave Poems
Definition | What is Grave in Poetry?
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