Graveyard Poems
#graveyard
Graveyard poems and graveyard poet style writing. Morbid and gloomy poems about graveyards and cemeteries, with gothic themes of romance, death, decay and supernatural beings. Along with poems about graveyards related to grief and afterlife.
Ahavati
Poem Published
11th Oct 2023 1:52am
11th Oct 2023 1:52am
Crucifix & Candlelight
In the necropolis
there is no life after sundown
Branches weigh heavy
with its slumber
Here at the ofrenda
we wait for the heart of it
amid sugar skulls
and old photographs
Course salt laid out as a cross
to purify and cleanse
providing courage to remain
and alter a memory
This is the part where we tread
gently, knowing the past is present
camouflaged in the thick space
of enveloping incense
wafting...
there is no life after sundown
Branches weigh heavy
with its slumber
Here at the ofrenda
we wait for the heart of it
amid sugar skulls
and old photographs
Course salt laid out as a cross
to purify and cleanse
providing courage to remain
and alter a memory
This is the part where we tread
gently, knowing the past is present
camouflaged in the thick space
of enveloping incense
wafting...
#death
#memorial
#graveyard
296 reads
6 Comments
PAR
Poem Published
29th Sep 2023 1:33pm
29th Sep 2023 1:33pm
Funeral of Flowers
Roses so red,
Violets half blue.
Shrubs are handsome.
and away so far are you.
Orchids so white.
Ghosts in a flare,
a lifetime is short
and soft was your hair.
Magnolias growing,
whose buds fade lilac
in the form so slender
of both your legs.
Sunflowers towering
up to the skies,
a smashing hammer
is the sun on your eyes.
Foxgloves in hedges
surround the farms.
Faces so tanned
so were your arms.
Daisies dry pretty.
Daffies in style.
My place is warm ...
Violets half blue.
Shrubs are handsome.
and away so far are you.
Orchids so white.
Ghosts in a flare,
a lifetime is short
and soft was your hair.
Magnolias growing,
whose buds fade lilac
in the form so slender
of both your legs.
Sunflowers towering
up to the skies,
a smashing hammer
is the sun on your eyes.
Foxgloves in hedges
surround the farms.
Faces so tanned
so were your arms.
Daisies dry pretty.
Daffies in style.
My place is warm ...
#death
#flowers
#mirror
#graveyard
#passion
99 reads
4 Comments
PAR
Poem Published
25th Jul 2023 12:44pm
25th Jul 2023 12:44pm
after the funeral
I think I burned all your presences
in the shadows that the sun puts on the walls
I think I tore up all the pictures
in which you weren't smiling your light
I don't think there's anything left under the rugs
after sweeping the room of the uninhabited house
I think the cup was half full of hot air from balloons
and the plate, chipped, was half empty and sad
I think you left without telling me what to do
I think you left without telling me what to do
I think you left
without telling me what to do
I...
in the shadows that the sun puts on the walls
I think I tore up all the pictures
in which you weren't smiling your light
I don't think there's anything left under the rugs
after sweeping the room of the uninhabited house
I think the cup was half full of hot air from balloons
and the plate, chipped, was half empty and sad
I think you left without telling me what to do
I think you left without telling me what to do
I think you left
without telling me what to do
I...
#death
#mirror
#graveyard
#philosophical
#funeral
125 reads
4 Comments
GraveRaven
Poem Published
3rd Jul 2023 9:28am
3rd Jul 2023 9:28am
Grave raven
In a gloomy place where sadness holds its grip,
Where lost souls wander aimlessly, consumed by grief,
There exists a forgotten realm, where melancholy reigns,
And the mournful echoes of ravens fill the darkest skies.
Within this somber city, where death rules supreme,
A land of withered flowers and memories filled with pain,
A place where lifeless graves stand, a valley of misery,
And ghostly figures dance among the epitaphs we see.
Under the hollow gaze of the moon, on endless still nights,
A crow with ominous feathers spills across...
Where lost souls wander aimlessly, consumed by grief,
There exists a forgotten realm, where melancholy reigns,
And the mournful echoes of ravens fill the darkest skies.
Within this somber city, where death rules supreme,
A land of withered flowers and memories filled with pain,
A place where lifeless graves stand, a valley of misery,
And ghostly figures dance among the epitaphs we see.
Under the hollow gaze of the moon, on endless still nights,
A crow with ominous feathers spills across...
#death
#graveyard
184 reads
5 Comments
KGERICD
Poem Published
29th May 2023 4:59pm
29th May 2023 4:59pm
Better to be gone
Ill hold my breath just
Incase ill never see you again
Ill bargain death so you may see me
Again
For the last time
Your tears will drop
But ill never see it
You'll scream out loud
But now i cant hear it
Cause i am already
Out of breath.
Incase ill never see you again
Ill bargain death so you may see me
Again
For the last time
Your tears will drop
But ill never see it
You'll scream out loud
But now i cant hear it
Cause i am already
Out of breath.
#love
#depression
#death #graveyard
#death #graveyard
144 reads
0 Comments
missjem56
Poem Published
16th May 2023 10:42pm
16th May 2023 10:42pm
As Quiet As A Worm In A Graveyard
I was sat
Within a wavering silence
The white noise
Was quietly loud
And fluctuated
Betwixt a deathly stillness
As dark as the darkest cloud
Whilst the sounds of worms
Wriggling through a graveyard
Weaving their way
Through the remains
Of the long forgotten
by Jemia
Within a wavering silence
The white noise
Was quietly loud
And fluctuated
Betwixt a deathly stillness
As dark as the darkest cloud
Whilst the sounds of worms
Wriggling through a graveyard
Weaving their way
Through the remains
Of the long forgotten
by Jemia
#silence
#graveyard
#philosophical
116 reads
3 Comments
PAR
Poem Published
9th May 2023 2:05pm
9th May 2023 2:05pm
Graveyards
I think I spent a few centuries
watching you pull weeds
tons of helpless herbs
and you took everything
that came to hand.
Nothing escaped your fingers
like a scythe reaping bodies
and limbs and heads
like floating dandelions.
The daisies lying on the ground
hopeless poppies, crushed,
lilies, yellow with fright, undone.
Nothing escaped your eyes
like electric scissors
that had come from outer space.
You, slovenly person, you
always destroying and undoing
what grows in freedom.
...
watching you pull weeds
tons of helpless herbs
and you took everything
that came to hand.
Nothing escaped your fingers
like a scythe reaping bodies
and limbs and heads
like floating dandelions.
The daisies lying on the ground
hopeless poppies, crushed,
lilies, yellow with fright, undone.
Nothing escaped your eyes
like electric scissors
that had come from outer space.
You, slovenly person, you
always destroying and undoing
what grows in freedom.
...
#hate
#dark
#death
#frustration
#graveyard
115 reads
2 Comments
gothicsurrealism
Daniel Long
Daniel Long
Poem Published
3rd May 2023 8:38am
3rd May 2023 8:38am
Longing For a Rose at My Grave
Prefer you my romantical ghost
with beating heart and spirit
ascending from this grave
to show I still love you?
Prefer you a love-letter
from the depths of my grave?
A letter penned in ink,
or in the tears from my veins?
Prefer you to pluck a crimson rose
adorned with vicious thorns wreathing
my headstone, watching the falling petals
plunge into the moss over my grave?
Prefer you then to lay on my grave
in the hope that you’ll sink into my hell?
To sip Rose Wine with me one last time
and...
with beating heart and spirit
ascending from this grave
to show I still love you?
Prefer you a love-letter
from the depths of my grave?
A letter penned in ink,
or in the tears from my veins?
Prefer you to pluck a crimson rose
adorned with vicious thorns wreathing
my headstone, watching the falling petals
plunge into the moss over my grave?
Prefer you then to lay on my grave
in the hope that you’ll sink into my hell?
To sip Rose Wine with me one last time
and...
#love
#grief
#death
#ghosts
#graveyard
238 reads
4 Comments
ThePalestRider
Poem Published
13th Feb 2023 7:00pm
13th Feb 2023 7:00pm
The Space Between Graves
Cold hard and frozen ground
Sleep silently heart that doth not pound
Under mounds of hard packed earth
Skeletal grins full of mirth
Each resting in their place
Yet avoiding the cimmerian space
That void between each casket
Insidious and silent not making a racket
Leering from the shadows gloom
The thing in the dying room
Ask not what it could be
For it's better that it should not be free
This thing with rotted eyes
An ebony intent fitting of...
Sleep silently heart that doth not pound
Under mounds of hard packed earth
Skeletal grins full of mirth
Each resting in their place
Yet avoiding the cimmerian space
That void between each casket
Insidious and silent not making a racket
Leering from the shadows gloom
The thing in the dying room
Ask not what it could be
For it's better that it should not be free
This thing with rotted eyes
An ebony intent fitting of...
#dark
#evil
#rhyming
#graveyard
#horror
170 reads
0 Comments
Mrd
Poem Published
31st Jan 2023 5:19am
31st Jan 2023 5:19am
we will never forget you
we will never forget you,
they say, sometimes while
the blood has not yet
been scrubbed from
the latest atrocity scene
your names will live on forever, they say,
because you are with the angels
or at the right hand of Jesus
or god needed a few more—
anything to assuage the pain,
even as the latest flower shrines
drop wilting blossoms from despair
even as the mass derangement ...
they say, sometimes while
the blood has not yet
been scrubbed from
the latest atrocity scene
your names will live on forever, they say,
because you are with the angels
or at the right hand of Jesus
or god needed a few more—
anything to assuage the pain,
even as the latest flower shrines
drop wilting blossoms from despair
even as the mass derangement ...
#death
#apocalypse
#memorial #graveyard
#memorial #graveyard
316 reads
5 Comments
ConsequentialChaos
Poem Published
29th Jan 2023 9:57pm
29th Jan 2023 9:57pm
Sublime Slumber
A man sleeps in a mausoleum, where the dead reside
Where bones of ancestors lay, in silent pride
He seeks a place of rest, and peace from the world
A refuge from the noise, where his mind can unfurl
The corpses and tombs, they converse with the night
Whispers of reverence, in the flickering light
For in this crypt of comfort, he finds solace and ease
A reprieve from the chaos, that's never to cease
The silence is his sanctuary, as he lays among the dead
Where the weight of life's troubles, are finally shed
The ancestors...
Where bones of ancestors lay, in silent pride
He seeks a place of rest, and peace from the world
A refuge from the noise, where his mind can unfurl
The corpses and tombs, they converse with the night
Whispers of reverence, in the flickering light
For in this crypt of comfort, he finds solace and ease
A reprieve from the chaos, that's never to cease
The silence is his sanctuary, as he lays among the dead
Where the weight of life's troubles, are finally shed
The ancestors...
#dark
#death
#sleep #graveyard
#sleep #graveyard
252 reads
2 Comments
Rachelleundrgrd
Poem Published
29th Jan 2023 6:36pm
29th Jan 2023 6:36pm
It is Well
The funeral passed as a fog set to Minor D.
My belly enceinte with her progeny
combined with a heart in pieces
sent my essence into auto-pilot
as the ceremony floated by.
The grand procession to the burial grounds
enlivened my dormant soul.
How she would have loved the pomp.
Motorcade police screeched an entire city to a stop
As her remains and those who mourned the whole flew swiftly by.
Inebriation caught from the very wonder and awe I’d inherited from her.
The weeping communion of family at the gravesite was a concert to...
My belly enceinte with her progeny
combined with a heart in pieces
sent my essence into auto-pilot
as the ceremony floated by.
The grand procession to the burial grounds
enlivened my dormant soul.
How she would have loved the pomp.
Motorcade police screeched an entire city to a stop
As her remains and those who mourned the whole flew swiftly by.
Inebriation caught from the very wonder and awe I’d inherited from her.
The weeping communion of family at the gravesite was a concert to...
#love
#death
#spiritual
#memorial
#graveyard
267 reads
3 Comments
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