Hearses Poems

Premium MemberA Distress Dish Of Blue Cheese And An Old Dill

...Blue Cheese and Old Pickles Poetry Contest
Craig Cornish

A dish of disappointment
mocks the kitchen chef
two anomalies sitting on his cutting board
all in their glory, dumbfounded
... and una...
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Categories: hearses, conflict,
Form: Free verse

Death by Clothing

...I worry that my coat will murder me.
Hanging on Banister’s Edge it’s a man lurking, dark.

I’ve seen rows of killers shadowed and waiting,
hidden in the ridges of the living room radiator,
ready...
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Categories: hearses, analogy,
Form: Personification


Premium MemberCovid Christmas

...Covid Christmas © 2020
by Bob Moore 

T’was a month before Christmas, And all through the town,
People wore masks which covered their frown.
The frown had begun, way back in the spring,
When a ...
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Categories: hearses, sick,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberMidnight a and E

...The sun descends this cloudless night
A moon for howling, full and bright
A moon by which the bats take flight
And wolf-men and the undead bite

Stretchered in, a bite mark cruel
He won’t heal ...
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Categories: hearses, halloween, horror,
Form: Rhyme

Tequila

...She was a shot of tequila,
Gulped by every tippler.
She was a vase of carnations
Set on a high table,
For everyone to smell.

She was a lodge napkin,
To absorb their bodies' muck
She was a cu...
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Categories: hearses, lust, sad love,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberYou'Re Never Too Old

...Joe and Ann liked to play docs and nurses
When their kids all came home there were curses
Well the problem you see
Is they're both ninety three
And both not quite ready for their hearses...
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Categories: hearses, humor,
Form: Limerick

The Witch

...Behold! 

A gaping black-
Curtains of a heaven, drawn
Set adrift
Across the wilt of the zodiac! 

An’ so, she emerged

An’ madness dreamt into reality 
A bow, to tether-
Then glide down hu...
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Categories: hearses, death,
Form: Free verse

A Dark Day Takes Its Picture

...Silt smears into a slow ebbing sea.
A sewage of disabled flesh leaks,
as a slurry of dissolution circles listlessly
until it drowns.
 
There is a tide, but its fed by breathing tubes
from an un...
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Categories: hearses, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member--Fear Is a Weapon--

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         ~~FEAR IS A WEAPON~~




To steal the calmness from your
soul's calm vibrations.
Thus~ stop listening to the news.
A fear mongering sensation!


We eat and s...
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Categories: hearses, encouraging, fear, health, humanity,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberRolling the English Premiere Credits

...Boys turned into men 
Acting chivalry needing to defend 
Thackray who never was 
Due to the wasp woman wanting buzz 
Gunners waited for Watford to arrive 
“Foul!” they did claim in a cry 
On ta...
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Categories: hearses, england, home, london, marriage,
Form: Rhyme

I Am the Project Air Bridge

...I am the Project Air Bridge, 
The veritable virus lord-cum-felon of duty fraud.
Fumaye's privileged his bridge that projects pompous airs.
Maelstrom, mammon coextend where it forks and fares.
Tra...
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Categories: hearses, extended metaphor,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Premium MemberWord Quintet In E Minor

...Word Quintet in E Minor

Too many tan hearses cruise down my street in 1963
Too many grieving souls cry shattered tears here.
Green throbbing lawns ruminate like grazing cows.
Red-bricked chimne...
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Categories: hearses, childhood, memory,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTogether Forever

...*Image of Fertiile Ground by Wordpress.com

Together Forever

Sweet-smelling jasmine flowers drifting neath, 
as matched scented ash filters near pursuit;
graveyard bl...
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Categories: hearses, death, deep, emotions,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberMonster Trees

...Monster Trees 

Monster trees reaching down through insane skies like spiders,
They see something coming in the green benign stretches,
We are the onion ring bearers wearing dark-day secrets.
We...
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Categories: hearses, anxiety, depression,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberOverworked Witches

...What's a single mom, overworked witch to do?
School potlucks won't suck up fat vats of witch brew
Green goop soup disinfects science projects
Magic wand deflects coupon blonde's rejects

Soccer ...
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Categories: hearses, funny, halloween, mom, school,
Form: Rhyme

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