Short Graves Poems

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


Stands For

for us all she stands
flag presented to trembling hands…
shallow graves in foreign lands


Robb A. Kopp
© Nov.13.2012
war
Form: Senryu


Adjustment

Orange skies fade to black.
Hearts fall in graves to plaque.



by Nikkia Roberts
Contest: In Its Essence
Theme: Time
Form: Verse

Premium Member In Words

Restive meadows, silent stones, shallow graves
                                            ~ in words their meanings emerge
Form: Monoku

Time Leaving Her Mark

Before marching To our graves, Time leaving Her mark On all of us Waiting for Your soul to Be saved

Unravel This Wind

Ghosts and spirits
Unravel this
Purple wind
Unleash your grin
The graves
Borrow deep, again,
Through the
Voices of dead men


Premium Member We Will Remember Them

war graves surround me stretching into the distance scarlet poppies grow N/A in original Contest 07~15~15
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Greedy People

Insatiable are 

Their greed millions of graves digs

Heavens in mourning!




© Demetrios Trifiatis
  01 September 2015
Form: Haiku

Waiting For the Moonrise

sleeping in their 
quiet graves
are
gray ghosts
with dark
amber eyes
waiting for 
the moonrise
to fill 
the breathless sky

Rustler of Graves

Translation,
  the executioner of emotion,
  —and rustler of graves

(Chicago Illinois: Water Tower with Studs Terkel—July, 1977)

Homage

the snow falls softly on the graves of heroes at rest...a winter salute!

Beatrice Boyle....For Constance's one line please contest.
Form: Monoku

Creating Graves To Rob

Prescott Bush proved his moxie
as war-profiteer proxy
with brother Harriman
since shame can't bury them
when suggestions turn Nazi.
© John Weber  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Among the Graves

sycamore trees
uproot 
themselves
To 
walk among 
the 
graves
to 
dwell inside 
the 
souls of men
and
walk
Among the graves

Deep Secrets


The deep things none can tell
People take them to thier graves
Hard to keep control
These are the reasons for deep secrets

Melodramatic Reenactments

melodramatic
dramatizations 
reenactments
of past scenes 
brought to the 
surface by the 
unearthing of 
the graves of 
past ghost
Form: Lyric

Premium Member Sentry

Sentry sits alone,
Amid fallen heroes graves.
He was their symbol.

Quietly he sits.
It is fitting he keep watch,
For they gave their all.
© Judy Ball  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Senryu

These Cracks of Light

For everything in sight
Dark leaves fall upon this night
Falling through these cracks of light
Among the graves, this wine cellar of darkness

Premium Member Grief of the unknown

Tear stained flowers left on mother and daughter's graves



*In memory of Bonnie Faye Todd and 
Crystal Faye Todd 
Conway, South Carolina
Form: Monoku

Premium Member Fuel of Destruction


For whose sake				
states indulge in wars?			
Chiefs of realms,									
so as to
fulfill their selfish egos
dig their people’s graves!
Form: Shadorma

Premium Member War

WAR


Red
White
And blue
Bleeds purple
Generations lost
In shadowed television lips
Smiling behind masks of golden mountains screaming graves
war
Form: Fibonacci

Premium Member At the Pagoda

The courtyard beneath the graves
Grew still in my heart.
My brother sleeps 
on a hotel bed
Sniffing in the soft air.
The present blisses my mind.

No Fireplace To Keep Us Warm

Graves standing
Out here,
In this cold
No fireplace
To keep us warm
The soul needs rest, 
When we get old
To lay here
In these 
Fields of gold

Graves Have Empty Souls

The grave
Keeper knows
Who shall
Fill these graves
When there is
No flesh or bone
Graves have
Empty souls
Death shall
Find the
Respectful owners

Premium Member Stain

Stain The crusades stain pure hearts Blood drips on graves Morning fog evil rises another stain on humanity
Form: Triolet

Premium Member Tombstone Destiny

Ghostly graves haunting the youth As they fear life more than death Too afraid to dig their own Hole, where they shall lie
© White Wolf  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Dodoitsu

Premium Member Waiting For Sailors

waiting for sailors who battle King Neptune's wrath. . . their watery graves For the Haiku 102 Poetry Contest of Nathan D
sea
Form: Haiku

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