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Gravediggers Poems - Poems about Gravediggers

Wangari Maathai’s Final Warning
...I planted trees, but you set forests on fire. I healed the earth, but you poisoned the rivers. I told you, again and again, that the land is not yours to wound— but you carve its flesh with greed......

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Categories: gravediggers, anger, deep, earth, earth
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Schnapper Rock
... All that ever was is all that ever will be and its pass of years washed to the sea. O’ death is woe, and I am as I feared alone beside the Estuary of the Dead. Hear the pitch and ......

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Categories: gravediggers, introspection, memorial,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member between nature's zones
...scotching sun I've seen to concerts of birds, I've been between nature's zones seen seedlings slowly mature. seen too moons and stars in lure between nature's zones season's weather beat fog......

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Categories: gravediggers, life, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Last Ghost
...The grave was freshly dug Just awaiting the arrival of the body Four Ghosts stood silent in wait They had waited a long time The waiting was over The gravestone would remain nameless ......

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Categories: gravediggers, death, evil,
Form: Free verse
Lilac Fragrance
...I was wondering today if something is wrong with me if I'm normal healthy it doesn't happen to me It doesn't I can't write anymore about shadows cemeteries crests I can't write like I use......

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Categories: gravediggers, 10th grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Dance of Deliverance
...*Image of Ghana's Dancing Pallbearers by CGTN. Dance of Deliverance Portend looms gravediggers ere dusk Orange descend skies slipping purple Their courage ascend embolden husk Al......

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Categories: gravediggers, beautiful, celebration, culture, dance,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member September 12th 2021
... So many more have died from ground zero exposure. Let us never forget! September 12th 2021 twenty years later dust, chemicals, fumes, fibers the body count climbs w......

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Categories: gravediggers, america,
Form: Tanka
War and the Middle East 2
...People are separated from good food, Babies delayed reunion with mother’s breasts; The innocent begin to ape the crude, Killer attacks a fresh retest of previous bomb tests. Gravediggers maximi......

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Categories: gravediggers, conflict, death, environment, international,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Whole In the Ground
...He wrapped his remains into his souls’ coffin at the cemetery An oracle told him to be aware of gravediggers at the boneyard Under cover of a midnight moon he sought solace and closure Remov......

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Categories: gravediggers, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The One Way Street of Revenge
...The seeds that dig deep into the heart rise up with all kinds of vengeance speaking with a voice that's deceitful casting upon one-lifetime sentence When one seeks to get revenge turns into a ......

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Categories: gravediggers, anger, hate, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Crap Shoot Poetry Contest
...On the surface you’re all sweetness and light But ... the truth is life isn't a game and if I were to start digging digging deeper than a gravediggers soiled shovel I'd see thro......

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Categories: gravediggers, bullying, poetry, slam,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Dead End Job
...the gravediggers crest two crossed scraping shovels lifelong employment they dig a large hole occupant won’t see their work yet pays final bill Contest sponsor John Lawler A Sc......

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Categories: gravediggers, death, jobs,
Form: Senryu
Adam
...Have seen the plunge of a dolphin And soar of a kite, Crows gulping every bit of rubbish in a habitual air. Have seen moths eating into the old books, Not that the knowledge they earn, No......

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Categories: gravediggers, art,
Form: Didactic
The Gravediggers
...Patiently they waited, Watching each of us exert Just a modicum of effort As we shoveled up some dirt. Every toss drew all attention As the soil came raining down, ‘Til the coffin top was cov......

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Categories: gravediggers, funeral,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ulzana's Raid
...In Ulzana's Raid, the Native- and European-American concepts of property ownership and rights are incompatible and irresolvable. McIntosh had no illusions about that. He said hating Apaches......

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Categories: gravediggers, america, art, friend, history,
Form: Verse

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