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Obsequies Poems - Poems about Obsequies

Farewell to Poetry
... I have inked my verses All day for so long Poured my soul in pages But got nothing in return For being a full time poet Poverty has ruined my life Crippled my very spirit Hum......

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Categories: obsequies, death, imagery, memory, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Park Bench
...Open sky, sitting on a park bench with one arm curved behind a person; teething smiles shyly undressing my emotional puristic like Adam re-unclothing in Eden. Whatsoever is losed of my ascetic,......

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Categories: obsequies, cute love, family, feelings,
Form: Free verse



Ode to a Poetess
...The power to create lies not beyond my grasp Pawns of my making; Kings and queens, monarchs and matriarchs Emperors and empresses, enchantresses and peasants, Even those who dared defy the gods, ......

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Categories: obsequies, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Coronation for a King
...(Charles Philip Arthur George - b. 14 November 1948) I had a cousin called Charles, said Aunty Olive. Nice young man. That's him on our TV. That's not cousin: it's King, said Aunty Lucy. It'......

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Categories: obsequies, age, celebrity, eulogy, london,
Form: Free verse
Obsequies for a Queen
...(Elizabeth II 1926-2022) Are we - crow, blackbird, sparrow - aware of what's occurring? We cannot tell, they assume, but gape and gaze from up here. This is a land with a departed m......

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Categories: obsequies, city, color, death, grave,
Form: Free verse



Trooping the Colour
...(The UK Queen's Platinum Jubilee was in June 2022) You're at Trooping the Colour now, Dominic. Were we not friends when we were schoolboys? You look so smart now, Dominic, guardsman, w......

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Categories: obsequies, color, dance, memorial day,
Form: Free verse
When I Die
...When the sun has set for me and the stars should have blinked no more, When the time for me to go and see my friends on the other shore, When the breath that I have loved for seventeen years have c......

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Categories: obsequies, allusion, death,
Form: Free verse
Gelt
...Gelt quintessential of the mankind for bread and butter for toys and desires for a ride to long highways to high mountains for a disease's physic to treatments to obsequies Quintessential......

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Categories: obsequies, 12th grade, age, character,
Form: Narrative
Mini Dubai
...My town nicknamed, ‘Mini Dubai’, burgeoned and branched on the bank of Kanoli canal like a tamarind seed. Now the silvered canal sprawls on its death bed. Busy pedestrians walk down an ancie......

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Categories: obsequies, city,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dickens' Lament
...To her kin Catherine was I in flesh married To my young beloved Mary was my soul wed Too long that eve at my play we all three tarried And all of six hours later was my soulmate dead. In my ac......

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Categories: obsequies, bereavement, devotion, family, lost
Form: Metrical Tale
Grand Ma
...Grand Ma Depending on a day’s mood- Grand Ma my mind recalls; Saint or Devil in the wood For fast writ on the walls!!! Ah! Lovely Devil was she She’d catch you up the tree Or acted a wis......

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Categories: obsequies,
Form: Couplet
Odour of Death
...ODOUR OF DEATH Fumes of incense sticks Death sneaks into the drawing room Without consent of none. Shivering mourning, snub off With night spreading over Remnants of obsequies Twelve baske......

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Categories: obsequies, death, death, death,
Form: Epitaph
Terrestrial Journals Vi
...Obsequies final taste; within this secession from a lamentatives covenant.... I took this pomegranate tree and I crushed it to, make myself a natives chalice of wine Still, it remained bitter u......

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Categories: obsequies, hope, life, love,
Form: I do not know?
Weeping Heart
...Can you hear the crying of the world Hearts weep: obsequies of love The crime of loving is forgetting......

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Categories: obsequies, caregiving, introspection, life, people,
Form: Verse
Sunrise
...SUNRISE Sunrise, hasten Your feet to come For in you the blossom Of my heart berths Dusk, the mirth of my heart Has cocooned, and in frigid Warmth for sunrise it yearns For my sunshine to b......

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Categories: obsequies, loveheart, heart,
Form: Ode

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