What is the meanings behind the Day of the Dead poetry?

Those with a distinctive talent for writing sometimes create short poems, called calaveras (“skulls”), mocking epitaphs of friends, describing interesting habits and attitudes or funny anecdotes. This custom originated in the 18th or 19th century, after a newspaper published a poem narrating a dream of a cemetery in the future, “and all of us were dead”, proceeding to “read” the tombstones. Newspapers dedicate calaveras to public figures, with cartoons of skeletons in the style of the famous calaveras of José Guadalupe Posada, a Mexican illustrator. Theatrical presentations of Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla (1817–1893) are also traditional on this day.

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IF you can get to it, a good 3D object to turn in is one of the Sugar Skulls they use for Dia de los Muertos.

Thank you bob_ for that answer!!

Do a paper Mache Dis de los Muertos skull. Just get a balloon and some paper mache startch from an art store. And make a skull, and paint it when it dries, a hair dryer can speed up the drying process.