I Laugh And Smile
When somethings so right
We laughed like children
We were as big as the Universe
We laughed at the sun and smiled at the moon
Choosing to return your smile on this April day
Something feels so right
The Universe echoes forever its beginning of time
I could take you home
The tyrrant of truth at your comnand
There's voices in the...
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Categories:
color, encouraging, universe,
Form: Epitaph
enough
"Have lived thousands of days; Have loved a hundred loves;
Have written thousands of words; And this has been enough."
...
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Categories:
me, meaningful,
Form: Epitaph
insurection dayit twas evereth the 14th
and ladle had stilled consequence
perceptive decorum and froth's
constable would, could naught
cold heart and battled fart
bequeath to thee
a brothersome free
door and locksey
leashed a board in mercy
a wait, as bait, beside boyhood fate
to undress against
shallowed peasant
four returned to Ireland
bedside and tired
blankets paging in grass
ant's weary temperment at gas
a home a key
a...
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Categories:
america, betrayal, dedication, endurance,
Form: Epitaph
Categories:
appreciation, beautiful, blessing,
Form: Epitaph
Categories:
appreciation,
Form: Epitaph
840 Israeli Soldiers
Here lie 840 Israeli soldiers
Each one defending his state
840 Israeli soldiers, knowing what might await
The ultimate sacrifice ~ their fellow Jews to liberate
...
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Categories:
destiny, jewish, love, patriotic,
Form: Epitaph
survivorSurvivor?
The ex. president
of the US.
Jimmy Carter
God blessed him
with old age
Carried around
in a crate
sleeps with open
mouth all-day
emits silence
...
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Categories:
absence, age, america,
Form: Epitaph
PoetrySoup EPITAPH r i p
Categories:
allegory, word play,
Form: Epitaph
Blown awayMy next door neighbour
was killed in a gas explosion.
On his tombstone
it simply said.
Rest in pieces
long time dead....
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Categories:
humor,
Form: Epitaph
Categories:
allusion, creation, poetry,
Form: Epitaph
THEIR NOT DEAD ENTERED IN OUR FATHER'S EMBRACEMENT-Fleshly vessel, lay incasket
Upon their death, though
Instantly, they are with the Lord they“soar”
Our God’s embracement ;
Their newencasement ;
Renewed, renew whole body made ;
Now that there in the presence of God saved ;
Hallelujah
Epitaph
8/24/24
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2024©
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Categories:
analogy, appreciation, bereavement, blessing,
Form: Epitaph
Robert Sherriff - Australian -Pearly GatesRobert Sherriff - Australian - Poet -Author - Singer - Actor - American Historian Photographer
Pearly Gates
In life, I never take anything for granted. Everything is free, but nothing is guaranteed—except for the certainty of tomorrow when we all must face our final moments. Will God or Jesus take you by the hand and lead...
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Categories:
cancer, care, dad, daughter,
Form: Epitaph
GRIM REAPER CAN WAIT
“Amazing tradition. They throw a great party for you on the one day they know you can’t come.“
Quote by Jeff Goldblum.
JOHNNY SPICER
In this tomb are the bits and pieces of the butcher Johnny Spicer
Got distracted whilst cutting meat and fell into the meat slicer.
JAMES.D.BOWLER
In this crypt are the flat remains of...
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Categories:
dark, death, humor,
Form: Epitaph
Late DaughterPoem that is written with each gentle kiss
Music I play twitching the corners of my lips
Art brush paint four magnum opus till death
Final one I will whisper with my dying breath...
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Categories:
beautiful, child, death, depression,
Form: Epitaph
Second ChildhoodThis epitaph— the grave beats with silence
betweeen the lines, signature of me be read
Now a second childhood's play—
for heaven was created before death....
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Categories:
beauty, childhood, death, heaven,
Form: Epitaph
Specific Types of Epitaph Poems
Read wonderful epitaph poetry on the following sub-topics:
beautiful, father, friendship, funny, here lies, mother, rhyme, school, sports
and more.
Definition | What is Epitaph in Poetry?
Poems Related to Epitaph
commemoration, elegiac lyric, elegy, eulogy, funeral, legend, memorial, monument, remembrance, sad, sentiment