Short Burial Poems
Short Burial Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Burial by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Burial by length and keyword.
King Tut
King Tut was too young
magnificent burial
worshiped by many...
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Categories:
burial, history,
Form:
Haiku
8th Street Elergy
Ramshackle house in town
Torn down
Leaves burial ground...
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Categories:
burial, bereavement,
Form:
Haiku
Burial Ground
So this is where the
fallen lay. Below the earth
they have to uphold....
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Categories:
burial, faith
Form:
Senryu
Tears Don'T Freeze
frigid March morn burial, ice crystals cover flowers ~tears don't freeze...
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Categories:
burial, bereavement, imagery, sad love,
Form:
Monoku
Burial of Jackson Five
may you rest in complete peace
the myths owe nothing
to mere mortals......
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Categories:
burial, allegory, allusion, appreciation, memory, metaphor, tribute,
Form:
Epigram
Gardens
Seeds of remembrance.
Bulbs and tubers
tamped under soil,
a burial that isn’t death....
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Categories:
burial, nature
Form:
Free verse
Burial of History
under the asphalt,
history train loses tracks
underground dark land,...
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Categories:
burial, allusion, appreciation, extended metaphor, history, journey, life,
Form:
Senryu
Death and Life
after burial
the seeds she recommended
in the mail today...
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Categories:
burial, analogy, death, life,
Form:
Haiku
Thoughts Behind a Burial Cortege
We,like annual flowers,fade,then die
As clouds evaporate up in the sky.
(American Doublet)...
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Categories:
burial, death, introspection,
Form:
Couplet
Silent Elegy
paths of the graveyard
greetings of burial hymn
with yellow leaves-birds
-14/11/19 CTG, BD...
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Categories:
burial, how i feel,
Form:
Senryu
Between Reality and Dream
If I live
in a dream
why does every cut
draw blood
and the sheet
sticks
like a burial shroud....
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Categories:
burial, life,
Form:
Free verse
Solarity
Harbinger of dreams
pillars of Infinity
shadows hide twin elms
paths lead to burial isles
crash upon your shield...
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Categories:
burial, adventure, age, allusion, angst, appreciation, future,
Form:
Tanka
Burial
a small plot of tears
overflowing discerned
ground uprooted now covered
friendship overturned...
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Categories:
burial, cry, death, friendship,
Form:
Rhyme
If the Good Lord Tarries -
in five thousand years
our entire planet may be
a cemetery…
***Cremation anyone? Burial at sea?
For Susan’s contest...
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Categories:
burial, angst, planet,
Form:
Senryu
I Want To Always Look Up
blue skies smile at me
white fluffy clouds lift me up
lay me down in sun
Written October 2, 2022...
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Categories:
burial, death, happiness, me, perspective, sky, sun,
Form:
Senryu
Sacred Land
Don't tread on
this sacred land,
a burial ground
for our Native man.
Copyright Cynthia Jones
Jan.14/2005...
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Categories:
burial, art,
Form:
Quatrain
My Contst Pom
A masochist plans his own burial
You'd think our man was malarial
But a fallacy it is
'Tis pain that is his
Ado for such an actuarial...
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Categories:
burial, bereavement, dark, humor,
Form:
Limerick
Stonehenge
Stonehenge sang to me.
Singing stone-age ancestors.
They chant in the stars....
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Categories:
burial, death, extended metaphor, mystery, myth, prayer, spiritual,
Form:
Haiku
I Planted My Dad
i planted my dad
it was a fad
his ashes under the sod
bottled into an organic burial pod
his soul came out of the free
to see himself turn into a tree!...
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Categories:
burial, destiny, fantasy, father, tree, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
Politicians Gather Money
One thing said about politicians
They can gather money like morticians
Who bring dead for burial
That go to meet Gabriel
While politicians greet contributions...
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Categories:
burial, funeral, funny, imagination, life, political
Form:
Limerick
De Dirt Ain'T Got No Back Door
Tick-tock, tick-tock;
De time done gone ‘long.
De dirt ain’t got no back door.
I churning de butter
Inside dry wood -
De belly burning
Tuh see de old world....
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Categories:
burial, dark, death, destiny, earth, grave, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
December Reimagined
The moon risen high, over
the burial vault of the sun
to the accompaniment of fireworks
from competing constellations
~ All this, before suppertime...
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Categories:
burial, december, light, moon, stars,
Form:
Free verse
Burial of Devotion
BURIAL OF DEVOTION
petulant his eyes
devotion to dear mother
forever in love
infatuation flickers
blue-diamond eyes slay him
7/10/2018...
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Categories:
burial, love,
Form:
Tanka
The Burial Ground
Our common end
we're swept
out of sight
and the bird
lies on the ground
neatly hollowed out
by the army of ants
an awesome flying creature
reduced to a few feathers....
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Categories:
burial, life,
Form:
Free verse
Broke
Here lies my wallet.
On my desk he sleeps.
His malnourished stomach’s
been empty for weeks.
No family survived him.
There is only me,
With no way to pay off
his burial fee....
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Categories:
burial, humor, money, poverty,
Form:
Epitaph