Short Cremation Poems

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Cremation

Into the flames,turned into ash,tempreture rising,no looking back...Gone in a second,a goodbye,a tear,death is a warm welcome,with nothing to fear...
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member The Cremation of Your Love

I cremated you
In scorching flames of passion
His blaze a consuming fire
Now only ashes
I have no tears left to cry
The kind wind bears you away

Eileen Manassian Ghali
Form: Sedoka

After Crime

After Crime

After Crime was a cremation
Happening after a situation
When a child was killed
Whose life was not fulfilled
May never find an explanation.

Jim Horn
© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Okay! I'Ll Settle For Cremation...

Wrap-me-up in a sheet, dig a hole, dump me in!
Let me fertilize a tree, would that be a sin?
Don't want no one cryin' over a shell of me...
Let me turn back to earth and rot naturally!
Form: Couplet

Premium Member Unlikely -- But You Never Know -- Coming Attractions

I have yet to write a poem about a toothbrush
   or toothpaste or cremation or zinc

One thing I am sure of, however, and that is
   if I do, I shall have merely wasted a little more ink


Premium Member Cremation

Cremate my soulless body
and collect my ashes in a black urn
Take my flakes of cinder
and free them into the calm Pacific
Let my spirit flow toward peace
and embrace the waves of eternity.

Eternal Spark

Buried in the ashes
of life’s cremation
Human effort smolders
but embers await
Tomorrow today
today gone forever
Forever rekindled
—the smokescreen of fate

(Dreamsleep: November, 2023)
Form: Rhyme

Party Time

. it is a condition of my will that popcorn is inserted into my body cavities soon after my death . that will make my cremation a bit more interesting to say the least .
Form: Shape

We Can'T Go Back

We can't go back, 

you poured pain like gushing rain, 
we can't go back, with broken trust. 

We can't go back, your arrogance stand like  fortress.

We can't go back after cremation, 
nothing to go back to.
© Bee Cee  Create an image from this poem.
Form:

Premium Member Zen Mode

within the burning castle
in vibrant joy I stand alone
unable to quite understand
why close ones fate bemoan

at the cremation ground
the aghori sings a hymn
behold the light of his soul
it never ever grows dim
Form: Rhyme

Playing With Fire

Creation and destruction
Seeing the animation,
Intimidating cessation
Mankind’s foundation
Youthful fascination
Delivers elation and sedation
Yes even fixation
Even deep temptation
Sometimes cremation
Depending on location
Form: Monorhyme

Buried, Not Cremated

Here lies the arsonist, Ash James -
Although, he would have chosen flames.

It amazed us, once, to see the grave of a notorious pyromaniac in a local grave 
yard - I know that she would have certainly preferred cremation!
© Jack Horne  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Epigram

I Fire Dance With the Stars

I'm strapped in a charred skin
Preview live cremation
The death of the sun star
To end all creation
I fire dance with the stars



Thabang Jan Ngoma
08-07-2015
#2--union with higher self

Sponsor: Nette Onclaud
Contest Name: MYSTIQUE
Form: Verse

Premium Member Nothing Left to Live For

(Cremation in Kathmandu, 2009)

The longer I live 
The more I think a life well lived
Is one that leaves you fully hollowed out, 
Nothing left to grasp, 
Nothing to be attached to
And thus ready 
To go in peace and leave no trace.

I still have a ways to go.

(2/13/26)

Premium Member Letting Go

on return from cremation - they dropped the urn with my ashes

shards punctured remains - I would have the last laugh at my farewell

memories down the drain - at least I knew where I was going


21st May 2020

Let the Pens Flow - Sijo Poetry contest

Sponsor Jenish Somadas
Form: Sijo

Victimized Animals

Lying in the street
Bleeding to death
Pleading for life
Not any Medicare
Or Inquiry 
Offender at large,
No burial or cremation
An innumerable number of tires
Run over the dead body
Justice is beyond the reach
Of the loved ones 
The life of every animal matters,
be the motto of the motorists.

The Last Chapter

Do we have someone around us
A guide thru life's tough times
Maybe someone to take us away
As we lose the pain forever and a day.

Is there a tunnel with a white light
That when we go, it's astoundingly bright
Is it the end, can there be another round
Maybe it's just cremation, or buried in the ground.
© Chris Gair  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Of Cremation

Listen to poem:
Tell me, mother

what did the fire
whisper to you

as it wrapped your frail body
in its flaming blanket

as it caressed your cheeks
and clenched your hands

as it kissed your eyelids
the way I tenderly used to

closing those deep oceans of love



AP: Honorable Mention 2022

collaboration with Chandana Ramachandran

Premium Member Evaporate Me

I've thought it over carefully.
   Evaporate. That's my choice.
   No funeral; no oddly posed corpse 
   arranged with great care in a wooden frame.
   Not burial or cremation. 
   Just evaporation.
   Like I was just a refreshing splash
   of summer rain and the sun erased me.
   I'll live in your memories.
   I promise you'll live in mine.

Premium Member In You, I Find Something More Appealing

I witness both
The emergence of silence
And, its dilution in action
I go to sea side
After tide, I feel 
The shore is gripped by silence
Often I noticed for a few minutes
Silence grips the street
After a dead body is carried for cremation
You know
Each time I try to draw an image of silence
I fail 
As in you, I find something more appealing
A bundle of action…

Premium Member Pennies from Heaven

Lay me down in open skies

Put the pennies on my eyes

Wrapped in my suit and tie of gray

Say a couple words of grace

Toss the earth upon my face

And let's call it another day 

Endless time is all I've got

As I decompose and rot

It's a horrid situation 

As I leave you all behind

The one thing that comes to mind

Should have asked them for cremation
Form: Rhyme

The Missing Part In My Eulogy

That the truth to what I am writing is bare
Is a fact you will determine when you find the missing piece. 
This eulogy is long overdue. 
Then again, even you reading this yet to be told story, 
Even you have words for my corpse then. 
Nonetheless I would not want controversies during my cremation 
So I will tell it in writing…………………...
 Only read my eulogy when the time comes.

Fallen Nation

I stand here all alone
For our justice’s been dethroned
Waiting for my trial
Which is more in truth my exile
I know there's no justice here
For it is that truth I fear
The judges here corrupt
No way to resurrect
What's now a fallen nation
That is now planning my cremation
Or rather a public execution
For this is their solution
To the problems caused by me
And my views of liberty
Form: Rhyme

Work Sees You Dead

A sign that casts the longest shadow
It reads works sets you free
Nether a politians  prejudice
or a capitalists pay packet 
these  will not set you free
The cremation chimmney 
will still burn bright 
Whether a life cut short 
by genocide or work
theres no escape
for you and me 
the language of persecution
Knows no borders 
colour nor religon 
Arbeit macht frei 

Arbeit sieht dich tot

Premium Member OF LIFE AND DEATH TODAY: A 5-7-5-7-7-7-5-7-5-7 FLOW

OF LIFE AND DEATH TODAY: A 5-7-5-7-7-7-5-7-5-7 FLOW
(Apropos Of An Ironic Juxtaposed Reality)

Ironically,
it’s cheaper to live than die:
Save, self-cremation:-
Even then, you must pay for
The ashes to be cleaned up:-
And don’t forget, the family
Is charged to pay off all debts
That you may have left behind:-
Ironically,
We are born to live and die,
Life, being cheaper:
Funerals are expensive!

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