Short Boneyard Poems

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

10.15.17

Third place
"Halloween Senryu"
hosted by Laura Loo...

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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...

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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...

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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....

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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....

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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. 
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