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Headstones Poems - Poems about Headstones


Premium Member When Headstones Cry
"In the garden built on a graveyard. The death of every flower added a little more life to the hearts of the corpses, buried deep inside." ...

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Categories: headstones, grave, growth, nature,
Form: Than-Bauk
Premium Member White Headstones
White Headstones by Bob Moore-14/09/20230 Until you see those white headstones all standing, row by row, until you feel the silence then you will never know, just what it was, these young men, thought, as they marched away, never thinking they may not return to their families one day. They marched away, into the fight, not knowing what may befall, they knew it was their duty, to answer...

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Categories: headstones, remember, soldier,
Form: Rhyme



Headstones
Headstones By Michelle Morris 12/01/2023 We put headstones On the graves of our loved ones Names and dates and epitaphs That cannot summarise a life That dash in between the dates The dash that encapsulates everything And nothing of human existence Except joining two dates of significance For almost everyone knows When they are born A starting point of a journey That takes many forms But not everyone knows The...

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Categories: headstones, bereavement, death, destiny, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Farewell
Born two centuries yesteryear A young pair who passed through Ellis Built a frame home with rose trellis Intertwined blooms like them bound dear. Last roses on their headstones rest, Grandparents by whom I was blest. Bitesize Poem no52 Poetry Contest...

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Categories: headstones, farewell, grandparents, home, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member About the Dead
pink granite headstones white cross above resting bones down with Davy Jones ashes thrown to the four winds places death’s journey begins where their spirit is under massive pyramids led by Osiris not toward the Pearly Gates where just Saint Peter awaits stored in a grotto angels singing vibrato chanting staccato entombed under earthen mounds where their artifacts are found still and decaying all said to be awaiting the Second Coming coffins into...

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Categories: headstones, death, fate, perspective, voyage,
Form: Tanka



Premium Member Concrete and Steel Headstones
plywood windows dusty streets faded graffiti...

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Categories: headstones, city, humanity, society,
Form: Monoku
Headstones and Chattels
HEADSTONES AND CHATTELS ‘Twas pure chance that I discovered Just the other day, A place passed Countless times, Never had the thought of calling in, Inner thoughts and misplaced fears Oh there must have been countless other reasons For one to just go there inside, But however on this particular day, I stopped, I looked, Then summoned up some kind of an internal fortitude And through...

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Categories: headstones, meaningful, society,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Funny Headstones
Following are a number of funny headstones “Don't forget to feed the cats" but she doesn't like bones Or, “Damn it's dark down here” Hope you can find the beer “Think I'm running on empty” another hilarious stone...

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Categories: headstones, fun,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Forgotten Old Headstones
A lattice of vines covers this resting place Some headstones fallen, lying in the grass, That I drift back into hedges of t i m e, Where markers seem to hum life’s stories. This quiet glade, an archive on a ridge, keeps secrets untold where stones are marked~ As a cloak of vines...

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Categories: headstones, grave, introspection,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Reading Headstones - 2011
I've walked up and down the rows; skipped a few, then went back to look Since I was seven, this ritual continues; A routine going on more than 51 years A sad silence as I look across the grounds, always the rush of tears As I read each name, I wonder who they were; what their story was A...

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Categories: headstones, angel, beautiful, bereavement, childhood,
Form: I do not know?
The Headstones At Their Graves
The headstones, At their Silent graves, Whisper to The windless caves...

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Categories: headstones, imagination
Form: Free verse
Cracked Headstones & Unfinished Thoughts
six writers in a cemetary each scribbling at the ears of the others focusing through drunken desire what could be better? these casscadeing lines, broken sonnets shouted into fields of dead cracked headstones & unfinished thoughts Where have i been? so many years squandered i've sat here before, in this very spot & felt that somehow, it must be my own i've read these lines before, never quiet...

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Categories: headstones, introspection, on writing and
Form: Blank verse

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