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Memorials Poems - Poems about Memorials

Memorials Poems - Examples of all types of poems about memorials 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 memorials.
Memories Lost
... Slowly a little bit each day So I won’t notice their passing Thoughts and dreams drift away To a time when I was younger Try to remember the small corner store Where I bo......Read the rest...
Categories: memorials, blue,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member STILL LIFE MODERNISTA 20-21 century
...Still life nature mortista an immersive   conception enveloped & surrounded with imagery of the commonplace a disguised symbolism in a cloak         of    interpretations appearance......Read the rest...
Categories: memorials, art,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member In A While
...Bruised moments, flooded with shadows, Silhouettes of lonely graves, Hidden in the promises of fate’s disgruntled maze, Bedded down on prickling thorns of loss, Lavender faded beneath the stones,......Read the rest...
Categories: memorials, appreciation, beautiful, dance, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Heart Attack
...Sometimes we rush around far too much for sense, in desperate persuit of pounds, shillings and pence; no wonder that we're falling down like finished flies, I'm outa here but I don't know about al......Read the rest...
Categories: memorials, anxiety, heart, money,
Form: Sonnet
Not In My America
...It doesn’t do any good to mind your own business, if you’re black, you’re going to get knocked down. Makes no difference if a hundred people beg them, they’re going to keep you pinned to the groun......Read the rest...
Categories: memorials, america, anger, black african
Form: Lyric



Rave At the Gate
...Rave at the gate, With chant and shout! Make God mind how large the turnout When his hand, so grand and devout, squashes us like candles snuffed out. Bid him not drop any more like flies. Why ......Read the rest...
Categories: memorials, anger, bereavement, bible, cry,
Form: Rondeau
Premium Member Dwindling Decay
... "Dead leaves lay still until the wind takes them here and there: even the last flower is withered: yet there is a beauty in decay. " ......Read the rest...
Categories: memorials, autumn, dark, death, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Suppositions An Open Form
...SUPPOSITIONS pensive  syncretics suspended  contrasts spread  continually changing & gathering a poignant  process of past existence  memorials encrusted in arbitrary shapes ......Read the rest...
Categories: memorials, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Gallipoli,
...A Poem Of WW1 ANZAC Day 25th April 2018 Let’s have at Johnny Turk Winston Churchill said, We’ll secure the Dardanelles, Keep our Russian trade fed. His words so casually uttered May hav......Read the rest...
Categories: memorials, memorial day, military, remembrance
Form: Rhyme
Priory Woods 2022
...I walk through the pristine green Follow the footpath around And finally arrive at the unkempt Natural burial ground. The field has matured over The past ten years The Hawthorne now overshado......Read the rest...
Categories: memorials, lost love, memorial,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Momento Mori
...time standing stlll arrested moments revealed in stimulations of the mind revealed lluminations of the past yesterdays becoming today tomorrow's postponed memory past pictures live a......Read the rest...
Categories: memorials, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Evocations An Ekphrasis
...EVOCATIONS a still life ekphrasis time standing stlll arrested    moments revealed in stimulations of the mind revealed illuminations of  the past yesterdays becoming today to......Read the rest...
Categories: memorials, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
This Journey We All Make
...This journey we all make Through this winding path Scorched by the sun's anger. It scalds our bare feet Already torn by thorns. The rains make it slippery, We fall and bruise our knees. Like w......Read the rest...
Categories: memorials, death, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dull Enthusiasm
...Refined on blazes of judgments haphazard yesterday's zest is a fortress of embers memorials burn surrendering souls into the fumes plaguing your emotions the cinders awoke allow t......Read the rest...
Categories: memorials, adventure, best friend, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Why I Write
...I write… Because my heart feels, pounding Away, breathless, filled with enthusiasm For the moments that bring joy, hope, peace The wonders of a light drowning in liquid sweetness Syrup, raining ......Read the rest...
Categories: memorials, muse, passion, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse

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