Short Boneyard Poems

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Red-Haired Poltergeist

red-haired poltergeist
in a spine-chilling boneyard
a blood-spattered cape

10.15.17

Third place
"Halloween Senryu"
hosted by Laura Loo
Form: Senryu


Angry Souls

I am haunted
The grave calls out to me
It screams
The ghosts of the innocent
Want their revenge
The slain are crying
Little bodies lost
The chilling boneyard
Of lost souls

Where Buffalo's Jump

Politics & Religion
boneyard 
of existence
Power & Corruption
misleading
in kind
Promising & Deceiving 
legislation
and dogma
Politics & Religion
deathtrap 
— for mankind


(The New Room: June, 2025)
Form: Rhyme

A Woodlot

Standing in a woodlot
A boneyard of fallen timbers
Lifeless they are

Warming sun on earth
Thick with bush
Bulging buds spring forth

Where violets grow
A stream - flowing low
Scarcity of winter snow

Painful to the eyes
Stands of willows gnarled
An artist records
© Tom Cook  Create an image from this poem.

At Least Once

At least Once lay your body in a boneyard. While you are young enough rest with the remains of the dead, perhaps lean against a mournful angel. Soon the fear of non-survival or survival will leave you. Heaven and hell will both pass away like smoke from a cigarette, you will commence to relax like a well-loved woman.


At Least Once

At least once lay your body in a boneyard. While you are young enough linger with the remains of the dead, perhaps rest against a mournful angel. Soon the fear of non-survival or survival will leave you. Heaven and hell will both pass away like smoke from a cigarette, you will commence to relax like a well-loved woman.

Boneyard

Boneyard Abandoned, Peaceful Sprawling, Watching, Waiting Still as the Night Graveyard July 31, 2019 **Side note: I was inspired to write a cinquain poem after my son brought one home that he had written in his English class back in 2017. I kept his poem because it was something he created for class and when I found it two years later, I thought it would be fun to try my hand at it.
Form: Cinquain

Practical Uses for the Human Skull

Through the ages
monkish chapels have erected alters
built from human skulls.
Mystics have understood
that such morbid displays
can lead to a fervor
of jaw-dropping moments.
The human skull reminds us
that death leaves its own gravestones.
Besides,
such boneyard objects de ’art
simply beg to be made into candle holders
or useful paperweights
additionally,
a dislocated mandible
serves as a most adequate rest
for a lit cigar.

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