Friend Death Poems

Albert Nelson's father bought a huge clock, the very day he was born,
A happy fellow, with a winsome smile. Like the merry pink sun, at...

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In another life, we were.

I hope you found
what you are looking for.

Is it too late?
Don’t turn around.

Here and everywhere,
I remember you.

In the summer wind,
what once...

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It was a misty morning in Moscow—
When fate and palm first softly crossed,
In gilded halls where secrets sleep,
I met a man both sharp and lost.

An...

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Unexplainable 

Generations comes forth, Generations passing.

People acknowledging personal memoirs, 
Reflections with the truth, No assumptions.

Accommodations inexplicable,  unlike experiences. 

Delays of Mysteries are similar when...

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We hadn’t talked in years,
not really.
Not since childhood,
when grass stains
and ghost stories
bound us like magic.

Cousins,
but closer than that —
best friends
before the world grew quiet.

We were...

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Stun me.
Rewind your music.
Tap your feet to the sound that stirs you.
Listen—
the cuckoo clock is counting seconds back.
Brush the cobwebs from your eyes.
Reignite.

Slip into your...

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I'm sorry I didn't bring 
roses to your funeral. 

I brought a Christmas 
wreath instead. 

I didn't want to symbolize 
your withering, 

I wanted to...

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I went to drink 
coffee at one of those 
cute little coffee-drinking 
places, and I couldn’t 
help but think of 
you. 

I tried 
not to....

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There is too much silence after death
From the one who leaves and the ones bereft
And the ones bereft are the ones who need
The One who's...

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Contest : Alice through the Wormhole 
Sponsor : Tom Woody
29. 7.26
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warm sun sweet liquid
dark moist hole bristles soft sand 
wonder exquisite 
   ...

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Asleep
Awakened by a voice
The Deceased one appeared as an image
The voice spoke of encouragement
Felt a sudden excitement
Visualizing and wonder if what was happening all true
Thinking...

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dog stricken
with cancer;
euthanized.

out of her
 m i s e r y;
dog owner

hollowed out
by deep grief;
best friend, gone!


...

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Shudder not, for it’s the language of Death.
Who’s next? —it asks
Going from house to house,
Both of marble and mud
It cares not
Nor fears man, rich or...

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I don’t have to remind you. Yesterday is behind you. Temporary is the time these bodies will hold the spirit inside you. Whether you are...

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Hell’s fire does not now exist
for those who die apart from Christ.
The wicked dead are food for worms
As are the bodies of dead saints.

But death...

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