Short Cemetery Poems

Short Cemetery Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Cemetery by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Cemetery by length and keyword.


Premium Member On a Final Note

Burn our bones, buried
Deep in the cemetery.
Pray for the restless
Ghosts among the living dead:
Awaken those far ahead.
Form: Tanka


The Rusted Gate

The rusted gate seemed to tell me a story as I heard the creak and squeak entering the windy cemetery...







11-7-16

Death

Cemetery grave 
   Patiently waiting to feed
       mourners now crying


    Just learned about syllables in Haiku. Updated
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Lorraine Cemetery

Near Saint Avold, France,
More than ten thousand heroes
Whisper from the soil.
Form: Haiku

Premium Member two spooky cemeteries

Illinois haunting
bachelors grove cemetery
white lady sightings

stull cemetery
shes known as gateway to hell
prominent legends
Form: Senryu


Nice Place For a Walk

Spring cemetery 
pretty white and pink blossoms
many birds that sing
grave stones scattered all around
lush green trees form canopies.
Form: Tanka

Memorial Day

A vampire known as Good Prince Harry
Set his fangs on the Virgin Mary
He took one bite
And saw the light
Combusting in the cemetery
Form: Limerick

Halloween

Miss Vi Brayder says Halloween
Is a night when spooks get obscene
In the cemetery
They were making Mary
Just as Randy was coming clean
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Jerry the Undertaker

There’s an old undertaker named Jerry
Who frankly refuses to bury
The newly dying
Since he’s been dying
To be first in the new cemetery
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Dwindling Population

The rural church closed.... cemetery still receives the dead
Form: Monoku

Premium Member we carry our grief

 
Oh, Dad to the cemetery we come our hearts numb with no glee though we know you were set free . . . rest beneath the weeping tree
Form: Englyn

When the Last Words Are Said

deep sorrow and regret the cemetery that captures the dead last verses are read bring sweet tears instead when the last words are said

Premium Member Halloween Roads

The Halloween roads That run in all directions Like Howling Alley And Cemetery Circle Take you from the telling sign
Russell Sivey
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Dark Cemetery

Why do crows stay in Inside the confines of a Dark cemetery Fearful tombstones their haven Why do they enjoy the dead
Russell Sivey
Form: Tanka

The Living Dead

While walking through a cemetery
Things were really quite ordinary
Until I finally saw
My "alive" mother-in-law
That's when it turned out to be quite scary
© Larry Belt  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Slow Down

Rushing home 
Late at night 
The cemetery gates 
Wide open,
Warning me to slow down. 

         
            W.A CHOLT.  Copyright Fergal O Reilly. 2018.
© W.A. Cholt  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Tanka

Alive and Dead

We’re upset when vandals
desecrate a cemetery 
and disrespect the dead
not so much when doctors
vandalize the womb
and desecrate the living


Donal Mahoney

Boot Hill

Boot Hill is filled with remorse
From folks who could not stay the course
But a lot could be worse
Than a ride in an hearse
For a cowboy who ain't got no horse!
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Melancholy

Words spoken at night
You and I forevermore
Melancholy without you
The cemetery
Came to tell you I miss you.

Second Place: Line Gauthier-20 Words Max-1/17/21

Cemetery Stones

I wander down the lane
Granite,
Cool beneath my fingertips,
Row upon eerie row.
I trace the long forgotten names,
The crumbling stones,
Time has tried to erase

Premium Member Cemetery Adversary

Here lies Abercrombie Wellington Jones
   Under the flowers are all of his bones

Young people like to deface his gravestone
   Due to all the slaves Jones used to own
Form: Epitaph

A Change of Address

Summer storm flooding

in city cemetery.

Moving day at last!



Author notes: This is a Bible-based Haiku. To understand it please read 1 Thes. 4:16 and 1 Cor. 15:52
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Knock Knock

You walk by a plot in a cemetery You hear a knock, it makes you hairy Call the crane experts Help you dig the dirt Probably just a recently deceased's fairy
fun
Form: Limerick

Bump In the Night

From the cemetery no specters arose
Why the teens then took flight, they did not disclose
What had incurred
Not seen, but heard
Discovered, because of the caws of the crows!
© Pat Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Ap-Pall-Ing

Four pall bearers with a coffin were not,
in a cemetery able to find their spot.
They walked ‘round and around
all the cemetery ground,
so I’m certain they have lost the plot.
Form: Limerick

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