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Gravestones Poems - Poems about Gravestones

Gravestones Poems - Examples of all types of poems about gravestones 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 gravestones.
valhalla
...Valhalla rest day Sunday is the day of rest for most people except for cooks, servers, and housewives They have Mondays that day hasn't got many customers they can warm up, Sunday's lefto......Read the rest...
Categories: gravestones, africa, beach, butterfly,
Form: Blank verse



I Speak For the Dead
...Note: This poem is the twin poem for "She Speaks for the Dead." This one is in the mockingbird's perspective. I perch upon the locked gate, awaiting the deepest hour of night. My abode is ......Read the rest...
Categories: gravestones, adventure, age, allegory, analogy,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Past Mistakes
...I often wondered how I came to be, Brought up by relatives so far away, My parents fought, in parting they were free, My lonely life never indulged in play. Growing up, battling my sad life alo......Read the rest...
Categories: gravestones, love,
Form: Sonnet
Why of all souls, you had to be the chosen one
...Why of all souls, you had to be the chosen one, But without you, these verses would have never seen the light of day. You’ve stolen a shard of my essence, now shackled in the cuffs of your hands, ......Read the rest...
Categories: gravestones, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Within The Realm
...On ruby red sunsets demise Etched on gravestones sorrow Below the beds of cobblestones Less compromised then when alive Lie the fallen upon the morrow From the depths of empty wells Fire d......Read the rest...
Categories: gravestones, absence, deep, image, perspective,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Wizard
...don't be fooled by the grey beard, I'm the science fiction you speak of, the little wizard bloke in the picture whose antics between gravestones and christening robes jerk like those flicker b......Read the rest...
Categories: gravestones, birth, death, grave, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ouroboros
...do not look for me among gravestones by black attire once chiselled ergo sum but instead a mother’s arms a womb from whence laid cobble stones I paved in tears, in many strides and tread alo......Read the rest...
Categories: gravestones, death, deep, life, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I walk through the cemetery
...I walk through the cemetery where my dreams and heart have gone, Among the silent gravestones, shadows linger on. A somber pilgrimage, where echoes of love reside, In the hallowed ground where dre......Read the rest...
Categories: gravestones, absence, bible, christian, cry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bells
...It was the bronzed bell of a tinseled Ocean ship. Until destiny was scuttled by a fiery water witch. In time, it became the haunting clang upon a reef. A macabre Nic Nac for cliques that ruled t......Read the rest...
Categories: gravestones, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Final Danse Macabre
...* for maximum effect cue audio at stanza break "For as they were in those days before the flood... so the presence of the Son of man will be." - Matthew 24:38-40 I see them, though the......Read the rest...
Categories: gravestones, bible, judgement,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Once Upon a Time
...They worked at the same place, A place of no space, Always running into each other they did, Bottled crushes, with a tight lid, Asked out, Joy shout, Lovely first date, Neither were late, 10......Read the rest...
Categories: gravestones, death, first love, heartbreak,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Family Plot
...gravestones one by one nestled in the countryside stone's throw from small town......Read the rest...
Categories: gravestones, family,
Form: Haiku
Lens of Life
...Can blackwater lilies sing forth sonnets of daylight and unsung those cacophonous notes of omen, which rhymed with sombre elixir of spruce rivulets and veiled your crimson tou......Read the rest...
Categories: gravestones, angst, betrayal, death, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bit of Nothing From the Graveyard
...Wandering round a grave yard and so many unreadable gravestones yet there was a tiny one from the 1800s still as perfect as the day it was made. Felt the sadness of the effort put into choosing the w......Read the rest...
Categories: gravestones, angst,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Grim Reaper Greets Gremlin Gregg
...grumpy grumbling grungy gregarious gremlin Greggory gratefully grasped grainy grandma’s green grapes in glee greathearted Gretchen greeted greenhorn grim-reaper with gee grinning, groovy, grown gr......Read the rest...
Categories: gravestones, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Alliteration

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