Short Cremation Poems

ashes to
ashes and
dust to dust
i urned this...

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After life and death
Give me the warmth of
Cremation...

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cremation...ashes
  in an urn...interment, at
    least Mom won't get burned...

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sea-foam collects from fountains of dust
how can cremation, for you be just?...

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My poetry's too cute
    I need a vacation

  I'm better off mute ~
    though I'm forgoing cremation...

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in five thousand years
our entire planet may be
a cemetery…

***Cremation anyone? Burial at sea?

For Susan’s contest...

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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......

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I’ve lived my life
As a free spirit,
And I’ll hopefully
Do so when I die,
So cast my ashes
To the four-winds
And allow my soul
To soar up to the sky …...

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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...

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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...

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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!...

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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...

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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....

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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) 
...

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.
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
....

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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....

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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...

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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...

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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!...

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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...

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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...

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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....

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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....

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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....

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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…...

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