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Short Corpse Poems

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


Death Watch
The day I died,
My wife cried out
Beside my corpse....

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© Jack Horne  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: corpse, death
Form: Than-Bauk



The Corpse of the World
finally laid out conquered


bleeds salvific Light...

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Categories: corpse, philosophy, religion, symbolism,
Form: Haiku
The Corpse
The corpse
Handsome looking face
Was he kind to her?...

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Categories: corpse, africa,
Form: Questionku
Answered Prayer Beside the Corpse
Rooster crows
after long night shower.
Farmer is never to wake....

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Categories: corpse, death, rain,
Form: Haiku
Son of Man
Stormy cloudy day
Offset by intense sunbeam
No corpse in the tomb...

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Categories: corpse, inspirational
Form: Senryu



The Killer's Touch
unholy romance
lavish kisses on my corpse
death wrought by your love...

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Categories: corpse, angst, family, passion,
Form: Senryu
Insanity
a peerless being
of fluttering eyes
the walking corpse of speed end....

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Categories: corpse, angst
Form: Haiku
The Lost Cause
Like a corpse laid bare,
Honing the hatchet of hate,
Is a lost cause care....

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Categories: corpse, anger, death, lost, war,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Life
Like a great beast
Its age set course
Futures the feast
Exits ones corpse...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: corpse, analogy, death, future, growing up, imagery, life,
Form: Acrostic
Death and Beyond
Open grave lies death door
festers corpse with rancid air 
igniting a flight....

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Categories: corpse, death,
Form: Haiku
Driftwood
Leaves of reddened corpse
Fall on me like driftwood dies
When it leaves the sea...

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Categories: corpse, life, nature
Form: Haiku
Second Thoughts
Regrets of aborted revisions 
Corpse of yesterday’s decisions

By Robb A. Kopp...

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Categories: corpse, introspection
Form: Crystalline
Frozen Mud Puddles
Broken ice
Shards like glass
Fatal wounds
A winter corpse
The weapon
Now dirty pools...

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Categories: corpse, imagination
Form: Free verse
Fate
We all recall the past
Yet ignore the future
Only to become a corpse
That offends nature...

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© Monk Frost  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: corpse,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member The Corpse Flower
The corpse flower, like the armpits of rancid love, your bouquet floors me.
...

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Categories: corpse, flower, funny, humorous,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Corpse Flower
foul odor describes
unusual attribute 
of the odd flower














3-26-2016...

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Categories: corpse, flower,
Form: Haiku
The Evil Deeds of Man
Maggots
Come to feast
On the evil
Deeds of man
No corpse shall rot
We eat the flesh of Camelot...

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Categories: corpse, imagination
Form: Free verse
When Ashes Burn
Grant me death from you, 
though corpse you drag. 
Bury me, and this, 
so good it does earth, tomorrow....

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Categories: corpse, farewell,
Form: Free verse
Gone Again
People crying
Blue ice cold skin
Corpse rotting in
The coffin
Nothing nothing will ever be the same again...

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Categories: corpse, depression
Form: I do not know?
I Go To My Wife
I go to my wife
The jaws of poverty
Rats eat the corpse
The maluti mountains order
Senqu river to close it's eyes...

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Categories: corpse, africa,
Form: Tanka
Hirudines
Parasites never worry
about the host
Sucking out the lifeblood
—spitting on the corpse

(Dreamsleep: August, 2022)...

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Categories: corpse, pain,
Form: Free verse
Time Lives a Battlefield
Time is a corpse,
Buried in this grave
Time lives a battlefield
Time is patient and 
Heals slowly, but
Time captures all...

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Categories: corpse, imagination
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shroud Wrapped Around the Corpse
a time of sadness a time of mourning a death a dark shroud over the realm
1//30/2017...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: corpse, loss,
Form: Verse
Red Bar
red bar
triangular table transmuting itself
happened at noon tomorrow

last morning
an old man's corpse bellow it
was in the ground...

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Categories: corpse, sometimes,
Form: Free verse
The Something In the Air
miasmic,


alighting the foul bourgeois powers that be


bounce like carrion crows


on the prone corpse 


of the bled world....

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Categories: corpse, peace, political, power, simile,
Form: Prose Poetry

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