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Life Grave Poems

These Life Grave poems are examples of Grave poems about Life. These are the best examples of Grave Life poems written by international poets.


PLEASE HEAR ME
You don't seem to understand
The truth I clutch in my hands
I never wanted to hurt you
I just wanted to show my virtue
It's the only thing...

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Categories: grave, age, anxiety, conflict, feelings,



Haiku Translations by Michael R Burch
Am I really this old,
so many ghosts
beckoning?
—Michael R. Burch

Sleepyheads!
I recite my haiku
to the inattentive lilies.
—Michael R. Burch

Stillness:
the sound of petals
drifting down softly together...
—Miura Chora, loose...

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Categories: death, god, grave, life,

SINKING
These are poems about sinking, poems about drowning, poems about loss, and poems about new discoveries we sometimes make while feeling lost...



Sinking
by Michael R. Burch

for...

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Categories: death, fate, fire, grave,

Chasing illusions
Chasing illusions
I lived my life
turning ghosts
into knights
talking to walls
carrying inside
a strong need 
to be liked.

Jessica 
...

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Categories: grave,

In search for happiness
Isn't this all I wanted? 
But why do I still feel haunted?
Flashbacks echoing in my mind,
Stop it now, just leave those memories behind.
This residential terrible...

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Categories: depression, emotions, fate, grave,



Sonnet to the Empty Grave - a Spenserian sonnet
The love of God is a priceless blessing
An affection mightier than fire
Empty grave; the saints, forever singing
To die for me was his greatest desire

Shall I...

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Categories: grave, mystery, religious, thanksgiving,

Premium Member A Seismic Afternoon Without Form, Name Or End
We are going to dig to bury our dead:
Mother, father, sisters and brothers,
Uncles, aunts, friends and strangers.
We are going to inter our dead:
Archbishop, pastors, Houngans...

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Categories: grave, courage, death, eulogy, farewell,

Premium Member Don't Come To My Funeral
Don't come, do not come
Do not come to my funeral
Do not come to my burial
Stay home in a quiet room
To read my God-given poems
Be inspired...

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Categories: betrayal, funeral, goodbye, grave,

Premium Member Letter from the Grave
Is the ship
still in its bottle..

Have your lips 
become dry,
tired from yearning.
Do you still wear 
my sage shirt.

Are you still crying,
are all those tears for...

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Categories: grave, emotions,

Premium Member After I'm Buried In A Common Grave
After I'm buried in a common grave,
simply marked by a grey headstone made
of granite, no human voice will rave;
isolated as in life: I won't condemn...

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Categories: grave, death, evil, grief, image,

Premium Member Tomb
Never had I met you 
Still I know your name,
Because of the notoriety 
Because of the fame

Written in stone
Forever and a day,
Many gone too soon...

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Categories: celebrity, death, grave, memorial,

Premium Member Tomb
“I feel my life so empty. It is preferable to fill a tomb to being doomed to live out a life that is empty” ~...

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Categories: angst, death, grave,

Tomb
Serene silence, its salient feature
The sapped bodies snug in solitude.
Not a mound of sand and cement.
A structure to showcase our reverence and regard and
Keep them...

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Categories: grave, tribute,

Premium Member EMPTINESS
       EMPTINESS

                 ...

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Categories: anxiety, depression, grave, loneliness,

Hospital Life


Life in hospital wards,
with blue drapes, white washed floors,
grey assets, wheeled tables.
Corn-beef hash, carrot mash,
day-pay TV cables.

Life in hospital wards,
spiked fevers, cooling aids,
pee cups, samples...

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Categories: environment, grave, health, how


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