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Headstone Poems - Poems about Headstone

Headstone Poems - Examples of all types of poems about headstone 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 headstone.
Premium Member Oh, My Papa
...As I am writing this poem, my heart aches with sorrow. Yet, a smile is on my face remembering you, knowing that you loved me, wishing I could hug you tight and bury my face on your shoulder and sa......Read the rest...
Categories: headstone, appreciation, father, father daughter,
Form: Elegy



Graveyard
...I watch from this quiet place, Standing upon the frozen ground. I pull the coat around my frame, Bracing against winter's breath, wondering how I got to this place. I look around and see someone......Read the rest...
Categories: headstone, death, gothic, grief, horror,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Think of This
... Imagine this – if you have the courage: scientists just conquered Death, the scourge and fear of mankind for millennia. But not everyone’s shouting halleluljah. Foremost are religionists a......Read the rest...
Categories: headstone, dark, humor,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Silent Stones, Eternal Echoes
...In the hush of a May morning, I wander through the murmurs of a forgotten meadow, where time weaves through the tall grass, and the stones speak softly of the past. Old, weathered headstones, s......Read the rest...
Categories: headstone, memorial day,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Toe Tag
...Here I lie in this cooler, this fridge where I would rather not be, but the truth of the matter is you’ve done it, you got the best of me I lasted as long as I could, and I put up a good fight, but ......Read the rest...
Categories: headstone, death,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member I love you Mom
... My healthy arm will be your stay; And I will smooth your pain away; And when I see you hang your head; It will be my turn to watch your bed; And tears of sweet affection shed. " ......Read the rest...
Categories: headstone, mothers day,
Form: Ode
Premium Member LIFE
...Laughter and love ,sorrow and pain In times both good and bad Finding the strength to meet the day Ending with a headstone engraved Even after death there is life Faith leads us so to believe ......Read the rest...
Categories: headstone, death, faith, hope, life,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Tattoo
... If l were ever to get a tattoo I know exactly what l would get Small yet with mammoth meaning One without regret My husbands favourite number is six My sons is two Mine is eight So this is......Read the rest...
Categories: headstone, family, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member To a Dead Mouse
... I Friend, whatever brought your life to end had no appetite for mouse flesh, nudged your small gray body on its side with a thorough sniff and left your corpse exposed on the asphalt path, ......Read the rest...
Categories: headstone, in memoriam,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Time To Reflect
... I have come to a crossroad in time knowing I should let go of the past but I keep recalling many things sublime and I must now reflect on a grief vast as storms shake the ocean o......Read the rest...
Categories: headstone, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
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 fate! Death is the end of everything held ......Read the rest...
Categories: headstone, death, evil, grief, image,
Form: Rhyme
Shiloh
...Shooting my classmate’s brother (that war within a war) I sat next to him at The Point still targeting him sure More than blood will flow this day memory also dies As honor sells its soul in va......Read the rest...
Categories: headstone, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Engraved in stone
...She watched the demolition team enter her old school. In the next few days it would be raised to the ground. The end of an era she thought, Christ, it was depressing. Suddenly a thought entered her ......Read the rest...
Categories: headstone, baby, death, love,
Form: Free verse
Media Mausoleum
... Media Tabloid Vixen. You seem to speak as if from the grave, a crosswired rig of McGyverse psyops in a disguised Ministry of Truth Museum Mausoleum. Report with vampires of halitosis, ......Read the rest...
Categories: headstone, art,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Wind Teased
...1) The wind teased the waves, diffracting the civil twilight. A crimson lily has shed some petals, staining the cobblestone path. Thoughts meander among memories - a fresh headstone in the lee. ......Read the rest...
Categories: headstone, loss,
Form: Sijo

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