Short Corpses Poems

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


Premium Member war in the swampland

most violent war
a marshland for the masses
crocodiles eat

loving their fodder
dragging corpses in water
hiding evidence
war
Form: Senryu


Premium Member Dark Days

hunger gnaws haplessly
harvestless, stark, earthen womb
sparse amniotic fluid
vacant calcified corpses
emphysemic ether blooms

Premium Member Mirageatrois

Low slung countenance
Mobile corpses mirror truth
all lies? bouquet of pains gain
creatures we house inside life
makes use of oblivion time.
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Deep-Freeze Alaska Warning: Dark

DEEP-FREEZE ALASKA

corpses in a row
hung on meat hooks in the morgue
until Summer’s thaw

8/30/2017

Hopefully, they don't do this anymore! :0
Form: Haiku

The First Apostle

The decay of corpses is my domain
Abandoned in the dread mountain region
Unrestrainable through fetter and chain
My bread mouldy but my spirit Legion
Form: Couplet


Death's Tune

10-21-12

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Rotted corpses play
As dead trees disintegrate
Lost in their own fog
A song that I long to hear
Is lost in the obscure fear
Form: Tanka

Colapsed Infinitian

Crumpled to the ground once again
Overcome by life's despair
Like corpses we lie here
All broken like dolls
Painfully tossed
Shamefully
Ended
Dead

10-12-15
Form: Acrostic

The Truth In Battle

Now we stand on the precipice. 

They lie before us in their own blood and corpses

Yet while we stand victorious, 

None who were there shall forget the horror of that battle.
Form:

Premium Member Ladybugs are not so ladylike

Sweet ladybugs are not so ladylike
When frightened by oldster or a young tike
Squirting yellow liquid that tastes horrible and stinks
Putrid smelling, worse than corpses of six rotting minks.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Ghouls

Gloaming gone, gloom begins;
gabbling ghouls gyrate on
gargoyles, gawping with their
grim glaucous eyes, scaring
gravid girls, gormless boys;
goatish hooves gigue upon
gibbets, grave corpses jig.
Form: Pleiades

Premium Member Refugee

Corpses wash up on a distant shore
Crowded train station shelters
Psychological trauma
Personal needs of children
Go begging in the rain
The dream of freedom
Keeps hope alive
How many will survive?
© Uwe Stroh  Create an image from this poem.

Foul Perfume

Hypocrisy 
is like a thin 
layer of scum
on the surface 
of an expensive 
perfume.


Its foul stench 
cancels out 
the celestial fragrance,
like that of corpses 
that your nightmares 
exhume.
Form: Didactic

Premium Member Wallowing

Wallowing with worries of yesteryear 
Is mowing lawns no longer there
Memory moves us where we yearn - 
A universe to which we cannot return –
To exhume corpses of our youth
And reverse adamantine truth
Form: Rhyme

One-Way Ticket

Phantom cities
Buried under chemical smell

Beasts digesting corpses
A Vomitus crush 
and a ticket to hell

Griefs and woes 
Nobody can spell

Souls out of shell
time to ring the bell 
A heartbreaking story to tell
Form: Sonnet

There Were Many Shipwrecks Here.

On a robust breeze, the sunset flares
through the ripe peach filtered clouds.

As they extend garish golden glaze
past bleached sands, salted corpses.

Cold crying of sailors washed clean
slipping off the clambering crabs.

Premium Member Mayday Tomorrow

Mayday tomorrow, 
but the pole has been toppled,
the good earth churned by munitions,
and then seeded with Claymore mines.

There will be no dancing on rubble ruins,
as we bury desecrated corpses, 
this year’s harvest will be lean.
war

The Murder Diaries Iii

Raspy, sexified tones began tightening
Like nooses around my throat
A trail of corpses appeared nonexistent
To millions of natural eyes
Catastrophically I was yet another victim
In the pages of murder that she had composed
She must be found…
Form: Verse

When the Earth Was Not Round

Volcanoes dignified this land
barren and deserted
Bound to be an abaddon 
scared and agitated

Fed on flesh and corpses
hungry and underfed
Needed more to devour
lustful and crazed

But this lust for blood never ended
when the earth we lived wasn't round

In Revalations Bosom

In the bosom of the earth I wept,
Wept like a child of genocide.
And unto its rising back I was laid bare,
Bare like a million corpses…………
Lust and un-fruitful    explosions blackened her lips,
With death, lips that where once potent with pure life.

Plague

beak
of the plague mask
    lest I smell
your rotting bodies
    strewn
I smell your crosses
  daub your doors
I smell your corpses
  pile your carts
I smell your fires
  flame your dead
I smell you earth
  and weep for you
    cried moon

The Stars Die

Fifty-thousand stars died last night.
Painting a beautiful picture,
(with an absurd haunting allure)
on an abandoned sandy site.

Swept up in a sharp, vicious storm,
celestial corpses to be found,
their lives absorbed into the ground.
Genocide given an art form.

Premium Member Ukrainian Spring

We watch from afar. We wring our hands
seeing the treachery of our governments
who do nothing, as if it is 1941 again.

UKRAINIAN SPRING yellow sun blue sky burning sulfur and flint ash corpses springing up 4/7/2022
war
Form: Haiku

Mortar maze

In a coiling maze
mortars fume.
Crimson cadavers
dye the verdant soil.
Poison spears plunge
craters into young flesh.
Scattered moans rise
into the sorrowing air
of deafened canons 
and carbon.
No succour or welcome
for the maimed.
Only ghosts
of peace.

Premium Member Pale Shroud

Pale Shroud A pale moonlit shroud envelopes garden corpses silent reverence abides. Soft breezes rattle amongst trembling outstretched limbs crisp farewell of flaming leaves ©9/6/2017 submitted to – Moonlight Delight – poetry contest
Form: Sedoka

Before the Kaiser Came

Before the Kaiser came
Swallows fed on the wing
Above green meadows
Butterflies danced on the breeze
And birdsong filled the copses

Then the Kaiser came
And no longer did birds sing
Mud filled the meadows
Gunfire echoed on the breeze
And rats fed on the corpses
war
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