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Interred Poems - Poems about Interred

Yorick 'tis Not, Alas
... Tho' not with a dagger in the library nor candlestick in the conservatory someone done the dirty deed and yet of bodies none were found perhaps the evidence had been concealed interred......

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Categories: interred, bird, death, fun, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Long Forgotten Cemetery
...Strolling along a winding country lane the other day, I came upon a desolate cemetery in abysmal disarray. 'Twas barely visible, hidden among overgrown weeds and brambles; Untended over time, it h......

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Categories: interred, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme



Our hero on epitaph
...our mouth owes a debt to your buried bones a hot lead cracked in a jiffy, and your brain splashed~ in the thick forest of Hanoi, with the stains sucked by soil as a flow thicker than......

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Categories: interred, america, death, eulogy, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Overlooking Lovers
..."She reassured me with an unfamiliar line." Love is a mystery school, yearning for sages well able to reckon sixes from nines. True wits should elect sin's disbursements rather than reflect on lo......

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Categories: interred, heartbreak, irony, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Windflower
...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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Categories: interred, beauty, feelings, flower, garden,
Form: Lyric



Before the brow grows cold
...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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Categories: interred, encouraging, extended metaphor, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Roots of Rebellion
... 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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Categories: interred, education, metaphor, political,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Self Love
...*“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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Categories: interred, feelings, life, self,
Form: Free verse
Whispers Of The Dead
...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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Categories: interred, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Sappho Translations XV
...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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Categories: interred, destiny, evil, heart, innocence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Breathe
...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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Categories: interred, horror, moon, night,
Form: Rhyme
Sappho Translations III
...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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Categories: interred, beautiful, beauty, desire, earth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Haunted House
...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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Categories: interred, scary,
Form: Rhyme
Ohio Ashes
...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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Categories: interred, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member GRIM REAPER CAN WAIT
... “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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Categories: interred, dark, death, humor,
Form: Epitaph

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