written by
Paul Callus
Categories:
bird,
A Cardinal
a red cardinal
flies down on the silent grave -
the time for closure
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For the contest of Tania Kitchin
19th January, 2021
Placed 3rd
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written by
Jan Allison
Categories:
dark, death, deep, weather,
Thirteen Syllables Or Less
thunderclouds
shrouding the grave
my falling tears
03~30~16
13 syllables or less contest sponsored by Timothy Hicks
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written by
Paul Callus
Categories:
death, flower, life,
Optimism
life after death
chrysanthemums
atop the grave
- - - - -
*Chrysanthemums symbolize optimism
Contest: 2 or 3 line poem
Sponsored by Brian Strand
Placed 3rd
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written by
Lyn Church
Categories:
america, anger, bullying, death, life, philosophy, political,
Grave Society
Society's dead
Digression came with costs
We are digging graves
M. Lyn Church
August 2, 2013
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written by
Christuraj Alex
Categories:
grave, satire,
Cemetery
sleek sepulchers smile
deceptive dirges die down ---
souls sing solo songs
12 March 2022
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written by
Demetrios Trifiatis
Categories:
beauty, language, poetry,
The Healer Ii
Poetry's rain came
Cleansing barbarism's grave wounds-
Language's beauty healed.
© Demetrios Trifiatis
21 March 2021
* TODAY IS " WORLD POETRY DAY" My humble contribution.
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written by
Skat A
Categories:
abuse, animal, bullying, death, funny, humor, imagination, water,
Bunny
-Bunny Hole- by:SKAT
hidden muddy home
dirty paws, good boy' good boy!
yummy with carrots :)
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-Unwanted Fluffiness- by:PD
Big Brown Burlap Bag
drop Bunnies down By the Bay
Better off -Blue grave
~SKAT & PD~
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written by
Audrey Haick
Categories:
nature, daffodils,
Nature In the Mix
daffodils---
spring blossoms
happy smiles
periwinkles
blue attire---
blaze like stars
the black hole
grave yard for stars
no headstones---
~*~
2/09/13
Note: For Gigno's Ellip Contest ( Listed under Haiku Form)
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written by
Michael Miers
Categories:
allegory, arabic, baby, bereavement, care, grave, hyperbole,
Sun On Brick
line against the wall
fat birds too wrung out to drive
later, rooms' sweet ease
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written by
Anne-Lise Andresen
Categories:
miss you, mom,
- Haiku X 14 - Your Soul -
Kneeling by my mother's grave
All the flowers had faded away
Her soul breathed on me
06.05.2013
A-L Andresen :)
*Miss you mom !
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written by
Darlene Gifford
Categories:
death, god, grave, moving on,
A Change of Address
Summer storm flooding
in city cemetery.
Moving day at last!
Author notes: This is a Bible-based Haiku. To understand it please read 1 Thes. 4:16 and 1 Cor. 15:52
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written by
Kathryn Collins
Categories:
funeral,
Almond Petal Pall
barely pink blossoms
Vincent’s funeral blanket
lay atop his grave
Kathryn McLoughlin Collins
July 26, 2012
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written by
Jack Horne
Categories:
death,
Twilight of Memory
he tends his wife’s grave
and hears the wedding march - -
smiles and tears
For Andrea’s The Twilight of Memory contest
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written by
Kim Merryman
Categories:
death, love,
Love Is Forever
a red rose
lying on a grave --
love is forever
8/5/13
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written by
Tony Driskell
Categories:
fear, grave,
Ebola
at first just a scare
population control fear
ebola is hear
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written by
Jack Horne
Categories:
fear,
Woman In Black: Hears the Rooks Cawing
hears the rooks cawing
as he strolls through the grave yard - -
sees her watching him
* for Andrea's (and Nikko's) contest
The Woman in Black is a book and a film - a big buck version is currently being filmed, I've heard
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written by
David De La Croes
Categories:
flower,
Dandelions
green fingers plucked you
to become prima donnas
of the dumping site
on a sandy grave
poverty's roses are placed
by sorrowful hearts
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written by
Arden Gopela
Categories:
farewell, for her, grave, memory, mother,
Cotton Candy
"Voluminous sweet
She bought me one and then leave
On her grave I give".
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written by
Marty King
Categories:
dedication, for her, how i feel, missing you, mom, remember, thank you,
Flowers On Mom's Grave Haiku
flowers on Mom's grave
like a soft, sweet northbound kiss
Her Memory Etched....
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written by
Sandy Ivy D
Categories:
art, fear,
Mountain Grave
Mountain Grave
I know you are scared
up into the sun lite sky
do not look down, SPLAT!
7-7-12
S IvyD
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written by
Cassie Smith
Categories:
animals, funeral, nature,
Two White Butterflies
I sit alone
At her sunlit grave site
Two white butterfles
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written by
Mark Goodson
Categories:
death, funeral, loss, lost love, love, people, sympathy,
Hank's Grave
Forget-me-nots bloom
My darling's epitaph reads
Do you hear the whippoorwill
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written by
John Michaels
Categories:
death, farewell, grave, grief, loss, sorrow,
Gravestone
A few simple words
chosen with care; etched in stone.
You’ll be remembered.
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written by
Samuel Lovitt
Categories:
absence, death, dream, grave, loneliness, scary, sleep,
Forever Quiet With the Shadow of Black Noise
one day i shall sleep
My body still ,had been reaped
cold..., silent..., nothing?
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written by
Andromeda Elektra
Categories:
nature,
Morning Dew
having drank its fill
it bade goodbye to the leaf
then fell to its grave
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written by
Handful Haiku
Categories:
sad love, words, writing,
Headstone Headache
take me to your grave,
secrets must be kept, see you
on the other side
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written by
Marty Owens
Categories:
angst, death, depression, loss, natural disasters
Deep Dark Double Grave
Stale waters go deep.
Sneaky double mountain peaks,
Death environment
Inspired by Raul's Morning Ambience contest
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written by
Jan Allison
Categories:
death of a friend,
At the Graveside
pine coffin’s lowered
into the freshly dug grave
raven caws in tree
in memory of our treasured friend Don whose funeral we attended yesterday
Bite Size Poem no12' Contest Info
Sponsored by Line Gauthier
04/17/21
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written by
Pheko Motaung
Categories:
africa,
I Know
I know
In the grave i am
In his thoughts
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written by
Randy Steele
Categories:
nature
Today
Morning lights the earth
Factories of life at work
Breath for the taking
Horizon afire
Quenched by a watery grave
Night shadows the earth
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written by
Denis Bruce
Categories:
nostalgia,
Paradise Lost?
Where eagles fly high
And bison and deer run free,
The land of the brave.
Where the planes fly high
And highway and mall hold sway,
The land of the grave.
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written by
Luminita Stoica
Categories:
introspection, life
Waves and Graves
Wrinkles on the waves,
Each pebble tries to leave marks,
Water is their grave.
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written by
K. Paige
Categories:
grave, imagery, metaphor, nature, symbolism, yellow,
Yellow
that field over there
graveyard of skeleton grass
not always happy
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written by
CayCay Jennings
Categories:
earth, emotions, environment, grave, nature, pollution, sorrow,
Nature
authentic nature
sooths my mystical spirit ...
trash distracts us both
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written by
Rae Stegall
Categories:
death, lost love, sad,
Beloved
Kill my beloved,
See him to his early grave,
Our love has ended.
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