Interred Poems - Poems about Interred

...I planted windflower in my garden plot Along with yarrow and forget me not Then a man walked over grass toward me Said "I’m Adonis, let me make a plea:" “Windflower you see, is named after me ......

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...lazy bones, bound in poverty’s grip in a garden, where hesitation weeds grow~ filled with s t r a n g l e d d e l i c a c i e s… a recipe of wisdom, never tasted couched like a fly in a......

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... For Tom's 1984 The Fall of Big Brother In the dark soil beneath the weight of stone and silence, the meek are not mere shadows, they are tubers, reaching deep in furtive places, attracted b......

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...*“The evil that man do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones;” Shakespeare in Julius Caesar Self Love Time has now dawned to start loving ......

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...Eavesdropping the liars where poison is stirred Their message rings toxic the future interred Foreboding forsaking all hope is unstrung While deaf to the mantra — where truth waits unsung......

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...Sappho Translations XV by Michael R. Burch Gaia, rainbow-crowned, garbs herself in myriad hues. (168c) We ran like fawns from the symposium: me, Cleis and reckless Gongyla. (168d) Destiny is......

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...I breathe; I think; I slumber and I wake I feel; I hear; I scream for pity’s sake I push; I shove with little left to give But six feet neath new fallen leaves, I live I breathe the fumes of my......

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...Sappho Translations III by Michael R. Burch Bed the bride with the beautiful feet, or bring her to me! —Sappho, fragment 103b, translation by Michael R. Burch I long helplessly for love. Ga......

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...On the outskirts of town there's a house on Brooding Hill that leaves those who pass by with shivers and a chill. It's rumored that murders have taken place in the home since it's been haunted by ......

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...She’d kept the pewter dusted and displayed since 1969. A verdigris had leached out of the urn nevertheless. She had been hard on him, had forgiven little, but felt much closer now. The televis......

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... “Amazing tradition. They throw a great party for you on the one day they know you can’t come.“ Quote by Jeff Goldblum. JOHNNY SPICER In this tomb are the bits and......

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...The journey lasted for not more than forty glorious and blessed years Before your smiles gradually faded as you journeyed to a land far away, The hearse swallowed you into its belly, while hearken......

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...Over the hill and far away There is a small but lovely bay. Not one building spoiled the site, Just old tombs that give me some fright. Seen from the top of each tomb is a soul, Interred, all......

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... Past Days Miracle Man 7/8/2024 Spent days are like a necropolis, where all of life’s former endeavors are interred. Those in shallow graves are oft laid bare in thought. While those......

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... Father’s Day 6/16/2024 Miracle Man Fatherhood is much more than planting a seed, An occasional visit or some meaningless deed. Many men can be fathers while only in name, Far f......

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