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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.


Trees Rise
trees rise 
from forgotten graves
unkempt weeds...

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Categories: graves, death,
Form: Haiku



Slaves
We are just slaves

Our life waves bye

Our graves our rest...

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Categories: graves, life,
Form: Than-Bauk
Premium Member Drifting
spirits of nine-eleven victims...searching for unmarked graves...

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Categories: graves, dark, death,
Form: Monoku
Be Wary
Wise man say

Before you set forth for revenge dig

two graves....

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Categories: graves, visionary,
Form: Haiku
Eternal Mansions
People nowadays
Will love beautiful mansions
Forget graves in peace....

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Categories: graves, destiny, devotion, faith, grave,
Form: Haiku



Cemeteries
Sad graves comprehend
Red dirt freshly mounded up
Flowers crying out!...

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Categories: graves, bereavement, death, flower, grave, grief, sorrow, symbolism,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Rustling Leaves
Leaves rustling softly
over the graves of loved ones,
beckon us to life...

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Categories: graves, feelings,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Ancient Things
melting permafrost
ancient graves yield rich treasures~
revenant anthrax...

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Categories: graves, earth,
Form: Haiku
The Headstones At Their Graves
The headstones,
At their 
Silent graves,
Whisper to
The windless caves...

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Categories: graves, imagination
Form: Free verse
New Mexico
home to cowboy graves
people still worship the news
all the death,a-famed...

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Categories: graves, art,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Sailors Beware
foghorn's soulful moan
dense cover hides shallows' graves
mariners be warned...

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Categories: graves, sea,
Form: Senryu
The Tao of Hunger
Chi eats the body.
Even starving it still has food.
Then graves feed the earth....

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© J. Rivers  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: graves, food,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Deer season ll
gunshots ring out loud
fields trampled by running deer 
mass graves along roads...

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Categories: graves, nature,
Form: Haiku
Waves and Graves
Wrinkles on the waves, 
Each pebble tries to leave marks, 
Water is their grave....

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Categories: graves, introspection, life
Form: Haiku
Premium Member my worst nightmare
bats in the church yard
weird spooky sounds from the graves
its my worst nightmare...

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Categories: graves, animal,
Form: Haiku
Strife and Saunter
Sons' (graves) crunch afoot;
my retch (rose) on pale marrow.
Late, this sun's dissent....

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Categories: graves, war
Form: Haiku
Floral Honor
white lilies await
the arrival of soldiers ~
deep newly dug graves


07 October 2021...

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Categories: graves, irony,
Form: Haiku
Whippoorwill
grass on the graves
the whippoorwill
far away

published The Heron’s Nest # 9: Sept 2003...

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© Rd Mcmanes  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: graves, bird, death, grave,
Form: Haiku
Cemetery
crosses everywhere 
is anyone crucified? ---
graves, yet, tell tales 


07 November 2022...

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Categories: graves, grave,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Standards and values
Today's standards don't hold the value they use to-our forefathers are rolling in their graves...

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Categories: graves, life,
Form: Monoku
Devil - Haiku
Devil – Haiku

red pain with scales stalks
empty souls in shallow graves 
devil fills in sin...

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Categories: graves, abuse, conflict, death, evil, identity, image, pain,
Form: Haiku
Grave Society
Society's dead
Digression came with costs
We are digging graves

M. Lyn Church 
August 2, 2013...

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© Lyn Church  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: graves, america, anger, bullying, death, life, philosophy, political,
Form: Haiku
Arabic Homeland
From the room over looking of the face of graves    
I thought of a future of the Arabic homeland!...

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Categories: graves, sad,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Epilogue
Night chills
the aging bones-
blowing on the east wind
flurries fine and dry settle on
new graves....

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Categories: graves, death, seasons,
Form: Pastoral
Premium Member MY FIRST N-A an american cinquain
Night chills
the aging bones-
blowing on the east wind
flurries fine and dry settle on
new graves....

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Categories: graves, poetry, word play,
Form: Cinquain

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