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Pallbearers Poems - Poems about Pallbearers

The Empty Hourglass
...Embalming your memory the funeral dragged on Returning the remnants that pain had prolonged The pallbearers stationed each side of the grave A grieving reminder that time — had ens......

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Categories: pallbearers, death, time,
Form: Rhyme
Shadows in the Dark
...Shadows in the dark keep staring at me and a visible image is walking swiftly behind me, the sun rises with pain in my head and the villagers are walking towards the cemetery to bury the dead; everyt......

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Categories: pallbearers, america, anger, betrayal, corruption,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Son of Nain
...Off to Nain, Jesus, his disciples and the crowd. See the gate! Approach the fate of Nain. Coming out of the gate, a widow, and a crowd. Her only son was being carried out of Na......

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Categories: pallbearers, christian, miracle,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Tomb
...“I feel my life so empty. It is preferable to fill a tomb to being doomed to live out a life that is empty” ~ By Poet. Darkness encompasses my space. My future is seen so bleak wher......

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Categories: pallbearers, angst, death, grave,
Form: Free verse
Severe Surge Regarding Thou Shalt Not Kill Violations
...Severe surge regarding thou shalt not kill violations Fifth commandment breached regularly epidemic of gun violence in America bullets fly, scream and tear into flesh senseless rampant mass kil......

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Categories: pallbearers, 12th grade, 1st grade,
Form: Rhyme



Obsequies for a Queen
...(Elizabeth II 1926-2022) Are we - crow, blackbird, sparrow - aware of what's occurring? We cannot tell, they assume, but gape and gaze from up here. This is a land with a departed m......

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Categories: pallbearers, city, color, death, grave,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member He Was the Brave
...Sat in his chair, the tv still on He’s not changed the channel for so very long The message on screen says a shut down’s ensuing But press any button to carry on viewing The remote, untouched o......

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Categories: pallbearers, hero, remembrance day, war,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Dance of Deliverance
...*Image of Ghana's Dancing Pallbearers by CGTN. Dance of Deliverance Portend looms gravediggers ere dusk Orange descend skies slipping purple Their courage ascend embolden husk Al......

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Categories: pallbearers, beautiful, celebration, culture, dance,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Elegy, Anniversary of My Fathers Funeral
...9/22/1983 I drove your shining,Cadillac, Daddy! The lead car to the cemetery. A stuffed bear, your Borsalino, In the August, back window,fino! You, in the hearse, a few feet behind.. Tears ......

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Categories: pallbearers, chicago, death, father daughter,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Sensations
...Does anyone see the people, perhaps its just a crowd Does anyone hear thunder, from inside a popcorn cloud Does anyone smell the fire, after lighting up a smoke Does anyone taste hunger, before ......

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Categories: pallbearers, allegory, feelings, humanity,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Heartache At Covid 19 Funeral
...Just the vicar four pallbearers and nine mourners gathered at the graveyard for the fun......

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Categories: pallbearers, funeral, grave,
Form: Free verse
Pallbearers
...Pallbearers filled the bus Off to funerals in an angry rush It’s the wicked; they say who have no peace That’s why the Pallbearers get their release They chose to capture all these ki......

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Categories: pallbearers, gothic, halloween, hero, judgement,
Form: Personification
In Our Hearts: Legacy
...In Our Hearts (Legacy) When we lay you, gently, in the most glorious mahogany box. And you are borne high on shoulders of six pallbearers. When we march, lazily, like a pack of starving school......

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Categories: pallbearers, bereavement, death, funeral, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Masterful Dilemma-
...A masterful dilemma; Did I mention; The contention; Dead overdressed pallbearers; 6 figures; Un moving vigour; Did I mention; Unloved catfished; Make a wish; Counterfit; The dea......

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Categories: pallbearers, analogy, anxiety, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Funeral
...The heavy rain was unforgiving with an air of forboding on this grey and miserable November day. At the cemetery entrance the chapel bell tolled ten times to herald the arrival of the hearse......

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Categories: pallbearers, bird, death, funeral, rain,
Form: Verse

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