Short Headstone Poems
Short Headstone Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Headstone by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Headstone by length and keyword.
Headstone
I did not run out of time, time ran out of me.
4/26/2021...
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Categories:
headstone, death, life, time,
Form:
Monoku
Memorial Day
worn headstone
place a flag in honor
memorial day...
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Categories:
headstone, death, dedication, history, life, war, , memorial,
Form:
Senryu
Epitaph
leaning on both sides
of an old granite headstone
blue forget-me-nots...
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Categories:
headstone, loss
Form:
Haiku
Headstone Headache
take me to your grave,
secrets must be kept, see you
on the other side...
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Categories:
headstone, sad love, words, writing,
Form:
Haiku
Halloween In the Graveyard
cobwebs brush my face
leaning against the headstone
screaming silently
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Categories:
headstone, mystery,
Form:
Haiku
Premonition
Fog lifts from headstone
Reveals your name, birth and death
Time nears mend your ways...
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Categories:
headstone, identity,
Form:
Senryu
My Headstone
Here lies Barbara
She tried to write about life and living
But couldn't write about death
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Categories:
headstone, deathwrite, write,
Form:
Light Verse
Grave-Side Service
weather-beaten sign
driven down in dying weeds
forsaken headstone
oh nameless, forgotten soul
the Savior knows who you are...
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Categories:
headstone, funeral,
Form:
Tanka
Pact
The Pact!
True love intact
headstone unravels all,
their land infertile took them both.
Invoked.
© Harry J Horsman 2012...
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Categories:
headstone, death,
Form:
Cinquain
Ornament On the Headstone
Stoic and proud the eagle sat
On one of a thousand graves
Punctuation for the epitaphs
Of the proud, courageous and brave
Who died so our freedom was saved...
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Categories:
headstone, inspirational,
Form:
Quintain (English)
The Headstone
his life so shallow
needed to dig a little
craves not to lie there
in depth hopes to find his way
her eyes the deepest of green.
© Harry J Horsman 2016...
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Categories:
headstone, desire, destiny,
Form:
Tanka
No Headstone Please
No headstone please
Sprinkle me among the flowers
But not the roses, I'm mad at them
Written July 17, 2018
Entered Kevin Shaw's Life or Death Epigram Contest...
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Categories:
headstone, death,
Form:
Epigram
The Serendipity Field
If I could choose
a burial ground
I'd rather a field
of freshly mown grass
bordered by lavender hedges
of colour and perfume
and my headstone
a giant purple jacaranda
in full bloom....
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Categories:
headstone, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Once Upon Her Lover's Grave
Thinking there of how you gave love so free
When I became desperate for a pee
Incontinence lets me down
Your headstone upon I frown
Where to relieve this bodily spree.
© Harry J Horsman 2016...
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Categories:
headstone, remember,
Form:
Limerick
On the Road
gift of one’s soul
poor poet such wealth
time to hit the road
reflection
dew drop prism
spider weaves
lazy river
silvery moon
image
time
left behind
headstone
© Harry J Horsman 2021...
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Categories:
headstone, social,
Form:
Haiku
Solid Gold
The lottery just don't like me too much
Played 27 years to win six bucks
You can't win if you don't play
Thats what my headstone will say
Solid gold font "two, four, six, eight, aw
shucks
7/11/13...
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Categories:
headstone, humor
Form:
Limerick
Within a Lifetime
granite headstone, proof of existence
fresh flowers and stones marked visits
overgrown weeds, unread engraving
no flowers, no stones
abandoned memory
sun warms cold headstone
BiteSize Poem No 29...
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Categories:
headstone, death, imagery, sad,
Form:
Free verse
Final Parting
Here lies the body of a memorable man
Unfortunately, he passed while on the can
We found his body beside his throne
And buried him here with this headstone.
Written August 28, 2022...
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Categories:
headstone, humorous,
Form:
Epitaph
After Dark
After Dark
The moon splays its splendor.
Red roses somber in vase.
Subliminal shadows, peaked and sallow,
flicker like windswept, willow flame.
Inscription, on her headstone, illuminated.
10/14/2017 ...
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Categories:
headstone, death, grave,
Form:
Free verse
Ghosts of Tomorrow
The graves of my youth
lay scattered behind me
Each headstone a failure
endorsed by my hand
A shroud covered memory
encloses my history
Where ghosts of tomorrow
roam—haunting my past
(St. David’s Church: September, 2022)...
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Categories:
headstone, grave, time,
Form:
Free verse
Left In Song
Be somebody’s hero,
give more than you get
Reach for something bigger,
cast a wider net
Be somebody’s hero,
your name to live beyond
The casket and the headstone
—your memory left in song
(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2019)...
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Categories:
headstone, hero,
Form:
Rhyme
Stones
"A rolling stone gathers no moss."
What am I
So stationary now
Is there moss growing
I hope not
It will come soon enough
Upon the headstone
Help me dear, Lord
To get stronger
Better, so I can count once again ...
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Categories:
headstone, faith,
Form:
Other
Egypt
her copper desert
flames old pyramid's headstone...
earth's timeless mystique
incense fill the wall
to seal odor of glory...
preserving legends
PremiereContest 120: Brian Strand...
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Categories:
headstone, beauty, places,
Form:
Senryu
Shiloh
Shooting my classmate’s brother
(that war within a war)
I sat next to him at The Point
still targeting him sure
More than blood will flow this day
memory also dies
As honor sells its soul in vain
— each headstone marks the lie
(Maryville Tennessee: March, 1999)
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Categories:
headstone, war,
Form:
Rhyme
On the Threshold
My weary eyes have yet to see
The threshold of eternity
But with the moon and stars around
My heart and mind and spirit bound
Then on my headstone there will be
A glimpse of my humanity
And when they lay me in the ground
Unburdened by all sight and sound...
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Categories:
headstone, death, life,
Form:
Rhyme