Short Gravestone Poems

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


Premium Member Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Life was a burden till death set me free - Now granite gravestone being hard on me?! November 15, 2021
Form: Couplet


The Gravestone of Melanie Walker

Here lies Melanie Walker.
A legendary hooker of old.
Her customers must have loved her
because they bought her a coffin of gold.
Form: Epigram

Premium Member His Grave

snow covered gravestone
monument to lost childhood
cold harsh memories
abandoned hope, love and dreams
never a Christmas blanket
Form: Tanka

Bogomil Graveyard

Gravestones lopsided
Forgotten behind the trees 
Surrounded by grass
Sun crosses risen from earth 
Crowned with some olive green mosh
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Ironic Icon

Write on my gravestone.

It was a typing mistake.

Not a random skip.

Rather, it dropped correctly.

Was neater than other lines.
© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Tanka


Premium Member Choosing a Gravestone Epitaph For Your Mother and Father As An Allegory For Writing Poetry

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[Author's note: if this poem needs decrypting, see my reply below]
© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Cemetery Adversary

Here lies Abercrombie Wellington Jones
   Under the flowers are all of his bones

Young people like to deface his gravestone
   Due to all the slaves Jones used to own
Form: Epitaph

Farewel

BY MY OWN HANDS I KILLED YOU
MY DEAR SELF 
TO HELL I SOLD YOU
I DIGGED A HOLE
BURRIED YOU 
AND WROTE ON THE GRAVESTONE
REST IN PEACE MY DEAR SOUL
THAT IS YOUR NEW HOME

Remembered

Remember where I lay 
Remember my gravestone
Remember this is now my eternal home
So remember my resting place and remember my new throne.
For my only fear in death - is again being all alone.
Form: Burlesque

Epigram

On a Gravestone 
 
   You always thought I was beneath you...
                     Now I am 
                          xx 

          (You Know Who  You Are)



30/11/2012 ~GG~

 btw This is written by me  and for me xx
Form: Epigram

Daniel

Daniel
Reminds me
That a name
That is not a casualty of war
Is a name that may not adorn
A war memorial gravestone 
But is rather living among the walking dead
That came home to live out
The days of thunder
For countless others

Beautiful Death

Caught
Cant Help Falling In Love
How Gone Will I Go
Im The Dumb One
Friendly Fire

Hostage
Pieces
My Heart I Surrender
Don't Care If I Make It
Your Guardian Angel

The Kill
It Ends Tonight
Losing Fight
Angels Die Too
Gravestone

False Hope

A gravestone.
It says Sheila Ryan, died aged 59
A devoted mother

Here clinging to the hillside
Striving, for the solemn white cross at the top

Standing
quiet, 
unmoving, 
unsympathetic.

As soil creep carries the believer down the hill.
Form:

Premium Member Gravestone

"Here am I, 
finally alone"
says this gravestone
placed on my bones.

I wonder why...

How long I have to sigh
under its monotone
grave good-bye?

***

Just a poem, nothing more :)

May 25, 2017 
Copyright © Darren White
Form: Rhyme

The Tombstone Carves Itself

The tombstone carves itself
When you are ready to embark
On an underground journey
Where your body fades
But your soul survives
Your name is being spelled out
In charming calligraphy
And as the gravestone crafts 2005
You are incapacitated with fatality
Form:

Premium Member Rambling

fragrant rambling rose entwined in honeysuckle memories of gran i cut some blossoms to place on her grey gravestone tears fall like raindrops ''R'' Contest, New or Old Poetry Contest Sponsored by Constance La France 10/06/21
Form: Haiku

The Holy Sepulcher

Here lies entombed a poet
Whose verses in ether lie, 
He seeks no tears of mortals
Neither seeks a mournful sigh; 

Gay blooms shrouding his gravestone
Are magical spells of his, 
They'll drench your soul with nectar
And pints of heavenly bliss.
       ***********

Premium Member Endless Love

Rose
Blood red
I placed it
On your gravestone
As a symbol of my undying love

You departed this life far too early
I’m all alone
In the world
I miss
you 

Two Stanzas Only Contest Sponsored by Broken Wings
Double Tetractys: 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 10, 4, 3, 2, 1 syllables

07~20~16
Form: Tetractys

Premium Member Crowvember

Blowing frost on a star and gravestone 
quickening our steps like Charlie Chaplin
turning maple leaf into rubies and gold
churning flocks into wind-splashed shoals
now we're hunched over like Quasimodo
the homeless sinking deeper into their hole
November struts about and barks like a crow.

:half:

The other half of me 
Explains what others see
But only few know that half 

That I choke and bleed between every laugh 
That there's a king behind the gaffe  
That there’s pain in every paragraph 

And those who know 
Don't know where I'll go 

But at least they will be at my gravestone
© Sandy Axe  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Melancholy Mood

My collie dog,
a mellon she has
 seen, there...
her feeling very
    Jolly...

my collie ate
 that mellon,
was filled with...
 melancholy,
  somehow...

Now my collie in her
 grave, for this...
mellon proved too
 sour, now there...
on her gravestone,
     appears
a Melon-Cauliflower

Premium Member Celebration of a Friend - Minichu

Celebrate life as death;
names iced across cakes with love as carved on gravestone—
covet breadth.

Reap or romance;
same chance to see flames, cheer, lie prone.
Our dance,

on clouds—
candles blown.
Crowds.

Celebrate life as death;
same chance to see flames, cheer, lie prone.
Crowds.
Form: Rhyme

The Potter's Field

No gravestone witnessed on these grounds,
Field of Blood the worn sign read.
Blue flowers thrive with tinge of white
within this field where mercy runs;

Countless folk lie buried here
Abandoned, forgotten– these dead.
Still nature honors them with care
each June when wild cornflowers bloom.
Form: Imagism

Premium Member Unfound


Under the old oak tree
Undying memories
Until tornado winds
Undid that tree, your grave
Unveiled huge toppled stump
Uplifted her through air
Unfound- Felisha Cat.


April 30, 2021

Contest: Pleiades U
Sponsor: Kim Merryman


True Story~ May 2018
(only a piece of her gravestone, was found)
Form: Pleiades

Premium Member Take My Breath Away

Sirens cut through 
the stillness of the night
blinding lights flashing
Police and paramedics 
battle to save you

Chest compression
rhythmic pulses
desperate attempts
to breathe life
into cyanosed lips

Now you rest
under a gray granite gravestone ...
I’m bereft, I feel so blue

Blue Contest

1/7/19

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