Sepulcher Poems - Poems about Sepulcher

...In dust-laden silence, past the reach of day, The mansion's library whispered of forgotten tales, Its heartbeat echoed in the books arrayed. Time's soft touch graced each spine and page, Among ......Read the rest...

...Based upon an entry in the mid-19th Century autobiography of Presbyterian Theodore Clapp, who lived for several decades in New Orleans, Louisiana. Of the many young brides who I’ve married, None ......Read the rest...

... The Hypocrite The Doubter hides behind religious guise, Mistakes the raven for the pigeon in darkened skies. His words beguile, twisting my skeletal fancy into a deceitful smile, E......Read the rest...

...The Revenant pt. 3 - The Midnight Hour ~{Renatus}~ Toll of the bell at Midnight Hour, High above, —the full moon still Below, a sepulcher in darkness devoured, E......Read the rest...

...In my sanctuary’s hush, Poe’s tales I clasp, Into his world, I plunge, a breath, a rasp. Beneath the creaking floorboards, a heart's pulse In my mind, it throbs and gasps; Suddenly, I'm t......Read the rest...

...Written: October 30, 2023 __________________________________________ Amidst bouts of deep pain and hellacious strife When anxiety overwhelms and exhausts life. Hyacinth......Read the rest...

...The living to themselves gossip attract, but at death eulogies mitigate lies. Love and care from he who breathes is withdrawn, but his slumber does attract parties. Fake mourners with feigned t......Read the rest...

..."I did not but see her passing by, and yet I will love her until I die." ~ Robert Menzies You don't know I ......Read the rest...

...The sepulcher within its confines hold a withering shell where once a grand life spent a journey both of joy and discontent - of pain and love and stories left untold. Too simple and complex I co......Read the rest...

...How melancholic was the silent Saint Peter's Basilica without a melody played by the bearded deacon, priest of the Camelites who died in sea-washed Licata; there, the Viol was played by Angelic of......Read the rest...

...Now, sepulcher after sepulcher! Bitter fall-out of a massacre! After talks failed: the Bilateral And later the Multilateral: Fortunate corpses for epitaph, Missing in action for cenotaph… Men......Read the rest...

...His day had come, and so He went and prayed. The woes of all mankind upon him weighed. His brethren slept; He knew what would befall. His enemies conspired and did not stall. A midnight kiss, and......Read the rest...

...Time is like a shadow bright It fades and never can requite A lip, a shade, a palest kiss The sorrow that my heart did wish Clasped upon the rose and chain When fate cannot thus so agonize ......Read the rest...

...Each day another velvet petal fell like somber tears from weeping eyes. A perfect flower was severed to quell and lay withering as it droops and dies. Flawless flower, from bud to bloom... swe......Read the rest...

...Chalice of Darkness Buried deep inside the blinded eye of midnight My fugitive heart, Homeless in winter’s frozen wrath, Seeks an abyss with rotund borders – A rounded vault of endorphic sacr......Read the rest...