Short Coffin Poems

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


The Coffin-Maker

Tight like
coffin,
black like
nightmare...
The coffin-maker likes his black tight
wagon, driven by the mare at night.
Form: Tyburn


Premium Member A Nail In His Coffin

Human skeleton
shriveled body, blackened lungs
just yesterday, young...
Pleading, his final request
gasping: One last cigarette
Form: Tanka

The Gravestone of Melanie Walker

Here lies Melanie Walker.
A legendary hooker of old.
Her customers must have loved her
because they bought her a coffin of gold.
Form: Epigram

Sad Slosh Slides

one
too many
for the road
as the driver stumbled
to the coffin-black car
the sky's stomach rumbled
wet black tar
to fast
end
Form: Ninette

At Rest

Returning to what was,
  the past became death

All time in the coffin,
 —eternity at rest

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2018)
Form: Rhyme


Israel Coffin

All around the world that big demonstrations, songs, poems, and insults
Against the Zionists are nails hammering into Israel's coffin.
Form: Monoku

Bill Clinton's Epitaph

Here he lies as he always did.
I hope they locked the coffin lid.
O hark ye satan, watch and learn,
With glib of tongue he might return.
Form: Epigram

Navara's Wishes For the Dead

I'm gonna wrap each coffin
with a pretty bow or ribbon
just to show how much
death truly means to us
and you never will forget it.
- Navara
Form:

Premium Member Doesn'T Believe His Worth

swathe in red, white, blue
white rose buds, baby's breath quilt
soldier's coffin
old Vietnam veteran
recalls others the heroes


5/31/2021
© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Glorious Death

my grave is blessed 
my coffin is well-designed ---
detachment undone?

even midst rude beasts 
am I ready to be thrown? ---
renunciation...?
Form: Haiku

A Coffin Is a Small Domain

When laid inside from end to end.
And there a box reposed my friend.
When heaven's ground is not of earth.
Fear not your God, he knows this worst.
Form: Rhyme

My Reaping

I went out in a mighty coughin fit
but oh how that coffin fit
oh it fit and it fit well
now i'm crossing the river styx
coastin right on into hell
Form:

Premium Member Circuitous Kinetics

To believe it or not,
In my lifetime
Marches on
Or off with your head,
To toe nail,
The coffin close,
The open door,
Way to,
Believe it or not…

Be Greedy

You may crawl to the master, the bastard wants you cheap understood?
Greed, the love of greed a disaster, when death robs the rich in a coffin of wood?
Form: Ballad

The Ides of March

Saint Patrick feared the Ides of March
So Jesus filled his robes with starch
Saint Patrick said,
"I must be dead!
This coffin feels like sold larch!"
Form: Limerick

Premium Member highs come with lows

While weed could help your mood soften
Dear roommate you toked too often
The pot you would smoke 
On you played a joke 
As you're at rest in a coffin
Form: Limerick

Ode To Alf

Farewell then Alf Mitchell - Or is it Warren Garnett?
Your death has us now parted.
And like Dandy Nicholls,
The nails in your coffin are now Hammered.
© The Didds  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Clerihew

Winter Shock

fog covers the bier 
coffin on moaning shoulder
whitish grey the tears 
leaves in icicles dripping
cold shrouded abysmal love


-January 21, 2019 Chattogram
Form: Tanka

Enigma

Distant dogs
bark at rainclouds

Dead moons
collide with the living

A television blares
from a plastic
coffin

He watches distant dogs
hunt the sleeping

Long Ago In the British Empire

Long ago in  the British empire,
Lived extremely gentle vampire.
He, before lay in a coffin,
Loved to drink cup of coffee
And sing songs with guitar by campfire.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Envy

Envy Haiku By Tom 3/17/2020 “Envy is the art of counting others blessings, instead of your own.” Taken from a quote by Harold Coffin
© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Haiku

Ashe Flow Like Stream

Clearly it flows into my tongue,

Like flavors powdered into essence,

Of smoke, 

Smoke blowing mind with quivers,

Passionately like smiles thrown

Into coffin.

Mr Machiavelli

I have been reborn and have soared with aggressive force out of my coffin
 As I emerge from the cosmic womb covered in my Mother's blood
 Now I'm creator, now I'm universe.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Utter Emptiness

I find myself feeling utterly empty so often.
I find myself putting nails on my metaphorical coffin.
I find myself dwelling on what could have been and what could happen.
Form: Sijo

Why?

why did you have to die?!
i can't believe i didn't cry!
you, that padded coffin, i want it a lie!
i managed to bring myself to sigh.
at least i had that one day for goodbye.
Form: Monorhyme

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