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Gravestone Poems - Poems about Gravestone

Gravestone Poems - Examples of all types of poems about gravestone to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for gravestone.
Unclaimed fallen leaves
...Spring winds clean winter branches Leaves billow far from home A maple tree sheds its own in tune No one is around to collect them Flat and perfect to be pressed in a book Unlike humanity’s tree......Read the rest...
Categories: gravestone, august, death, farewell, freedom,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Unchain My Heart
...My head confirms what my heart denies I'm a prisoner of all your lies And though it may put me in my grave I'll stand forever your dying slave Of this Siren's call there's no defense A......Read the rest...
Categories: gravestone, heartbreak,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tomb
... “A member of our family- a heart of gold- eyes just for me.” _by Poet My Charlie Cat lies in his tomb with his old toys and lots of room.......Read the rest...
Categories: gravestone, cat, death, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Old Age
... How time goes racing now when there's no need to-- when there's so little farther left to go: over the river--under the trees. Time ought to lead us slow...slow! -......Read the rest...
Categories: gravestone, age, death, life, old,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Unkept Grave
...At the edge of the old cemetery, I found an unkept grave. It was though the person interned there, Had a soul no one could save. Her tombstone contained two dates That showed the term of her......Read the rest...
Categories: gravestone, death, extended metaphor, mystery,
Form: Narrative



Alone
...Please don’t count my cry as a sin, I don’t want to die. Lately I feel so alone, idk why I have a phone. On the cemetery mound. I been folding my hands looking up at the sky. If I die young, bury......Read the rest...
Categories: gravestone, angel,
Form: Free verse
Celebration of a Friend - Minichu
... Celebrate life as death; names iced across cakes with love as carved on gravestone— covet breadth. Reap or romance; same chance to see flames, cheer, lie prone. Our dance, on clouds— can......Read the rest...
Categories: gravestone, birth, courage, dance, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member His Grave
...snow covered gravestone monument to lost childhood cold harsh memories abandoned hope, love and dreams never a Christmas blanket ......Read the rest...
Categories: gravestone, dark, emotions, feelings, sad,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member I didn't know you
...Dusty shoes In the charity shop Moulded to the shape Of a previous occupant There must be evidence everywhere There is... Of who was there The grooves in stone steps in the mill Worn away b......Read the rest...
Categories: gravestone, fate,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member logical
...head empty awareness of skull like it is a texture I have placed my hand on the way you stroke marble dreaming of your gravestone ......Read the rest...
Categories: gravestone, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
A bud on a spruce tree
...Said the last goodbye, Leaving us, as old rye, Taking you, Earth withers, And I am left in shivers. Tears flow in eyes, The driest ones; wept, Grays are the skies, The wind, no longer kept. ......Read the rest...
Categories: gravestone, absence, age, appreciation, birth,
Form: Rhyme
To Write Palestine
...I know how it is, after they're done in the killing fields, they'll turn to ban your name in the dictionaries. But, on my car and on the trees, on the sands of desert, and on every beach, I will ......Read the rest...
Categories: gravestone, allusion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Freedom
...That sad lament flickering through her day Buried deep, but not deep enough Folded flag, a reminder of the love never returned Death the escape, but still the prisoner Married to the ego Maybe b......Read the rest...
Categories: gravestone, freedom, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member You Didn't Know Me
...You didn't know me Still, you can say hi, If you stop someday When out walking by I'm just a name now First, middle and last, Above two carved dates Important to my past All that is burie......Read the rest...
Categories: gravestone, death, lonely, me, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Strange Shadows - Shadows and Substance - Gertrude Abercrombie 1950
...It's all me How I perceptualise I place the chalice of expectation within reach Then plead with my shadow for just one sip I myself project the watchers, to create my own unease Always complete......Read the rest...
Categories: gravestone, angst, art,
Form: Ekphrasis

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