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Dirge Poems - Poems about Dirge

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Premium Member You Will always be on my Mind
...She lay serenely on the cold slab Elegantly dressed in white, A secret smile embossed upon her lips That even death could ne'er erase. I looked at her for quite some time. My memories dwel......Read the rest...
Categories: dirge, appreciation,
Form: Free verse



Thinkable unthinkable knee, are you still composing poetry?
...Your most recent interest in observational truth in laptop monitor Gave you an ultimatum today. He , as she, in he, as she again, grabbed you in all kinds of tree , remnant there before serenity ......Read the rest...
Categories: dirge, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Lost Track of a Ginger Snap
...Get in your room now,” as daddy fashioned a gun. Mom grabbed me and her facial expression was undone, something must be wrong, I ask she looked at me and welts started to run, down we hunkered ......Read the rest...
Categories: dirge, animal, dark, death, dog,
Form: Narrative
Acts of Horror Gets Horror
...Eyeless it manifested from the depths of the abyssal darkness of the woods. Hide reflective more muscle almost fleshless ribbon peeled back skull necklace. Limbs contort and pop grotesque as it mov......Read the rest...
Categories: dirge, dark, death, dog, gothic,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Requiem for a Motherless Child
...I was buried in a tomb for unknown persons. When I was alive I knew nothing of this life. Now that I'm dead I seem to have acquired it all. My heartless mother abandoned me, unwanted, Left me on ......Read the rest...
Categories: dirge, baby, death,
Form: Free verse



Crimson Bouquet
...In spectral glow moon's pallor, country home towered ominously, fortress bearing silent the tragedy, ensnared within its stone. Her footfalls echoed in the hollow foyer, mournful dirge in the c......Read the rest...
Categories: dirge, dark, gothic, grief, horror,
Form: Free verse
Rose Red Pyre Black Petals
...Visceral incantation from onyx velvet lips, moan, groan, to twist my bits as a witch. Salem pyre ancient oak standing the edifice, wrist shackled chains gather round vile cultist. Breast ......Read the rest...
Categories: dirge, dark, death, horror, murder,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hyacinth and Daffodil
... Hyacinth and daffodil bloom on yonder verdant hill Though roses struggle to emerge thorns impaled on concrete's dirge ......Read the rest...
Categories: dirge, flower, grief, music,
Form: Couplet
Rebirth
...Rebirth: Tragedy has been your favorite genre— A fount of acts and scenes of wailing tears and excruciating scars punctured alive by so-called healers. That oozing wound paints the genr......Read the rest...
Categories: dirge, 7th grade, poems,
Form: Free verse
Love Is Dead
...LOVE IS DEAD ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Heart's garden, once bloomed love's sweet delight, Now lies in shadows, hidden from our sight. Whispers of promises, now faded and frayed, The echo of laughter, in s......Read the rest...
Categories: dirge, 1st grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dead of Fall
... Dead of Fall In gathering storm clouds, Fall whispers its dread, Cold tendrils coil, as life's colors shed. Once vibrant hues, now wilt and fade, As darkness creeps in, a cold, si......Read the rest...
Categories: dirge, autumn, beauty, dark, faith,
Form: Rhyme
The Raven
...In the shadowed grove, where moonlight wanes, A raven perches, feathers inked with midnight stains. Its eyes, twin orbs of obsidian, hold secrets untold, As it croaks its mournful tale, a story of......Read the rest...
Categories: dirge, animal, bird, dark, gothic,
Form: Free verse
A Dirge
... (In memory of Uncle Thomas) Bumpy breeze, like a blasting roar That day when you did soar without an oar Twenty-two years of sorrow, too long For many years, I sang a solemn song Days of dar......Read the rest...
Categories: dirge, dark, death, depression, sick,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member That was Then, and This is Now
... That was Then, and This is Now In the crypt of our loves memory, we danced so free, Our romance, a cursed flame, burned with spectral glow. But secrets, whispers from the damned, yo......Read the rest...
Categories: dirge, anger, break up, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member After the Floods
... Dark clouds loomed over the horizon They broke loose in unprecedented force Nature’s wrath, sudden violence acquired It rained down as if unleashing all her fury It was a downpour w......Read the rest...
Categories: dirge, angst, destiny, earth, rain,
Form: Free verse

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