Grief a New Best Friend
...Grief is so unimaginable painful it cant be explained,
To lose someone you love so much is unfeigned,
Once grief comes knocking at your front door,
Entering your life, It doesn't plan to stay as ...
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Categories:
bereaving, death, deep, emotions, father,
Form: Free verse
Bittersweet Morn
...Dreaded are the darkest nights inside
Souls bereaving just before the dawn
When new daybreak slowly appears
On the horizon of a bittersweet morn,
Comes the sun’s rays swift awakening
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Categories:
bereaving, death, grief, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Lay Me Gently Down
...Lay me gently down on a cold wint’ry day,
While the fireplace sparkles and blue flames rise
A day when the sun shines not to brighten, nay
Snow cloud blankets denying warmth to the eye...
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Categories:
bereaving, death, feelings, memorial, perspective,
Form: Rondeau Redouble
One Last Poem
...Love spills its final drop as I gasp for another breath
From this mortal wound, my afflicted soul is bereaving
I've one last poem to pen, in refrain before my death
about the brok...
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Categories:
bereaving, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Mournfully, My Heart Bleeds
...I've written of great longing while my teardrops flare
Rhyming lines of sorrow that were nested in my mind
Tomes of poetry that exposed the depth of my despair
Now, my heart lies withe...
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Categories:
bereaving, lost love,
Form: Quatrain
Caesura
...In lengthening slumberous reposes lies
Dickens' sterling pen under bluish skies;
And through them gloats deathless sun,
Taunting all that under his embers burn.
No more savoring of Oliver’s t...
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Categories:
bereaving, bereavement, books, death, destiny,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Apertures of Agony
...Was professor of astronomy, ah those heady days
Studied fields in cosmology, including solar rays
Observed galaxies all my life, seeking exotic events
Ironically happens now, as my death’s...
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Categories:
bereaving, allusion, death, irony, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme
Tears of the Cross
...Three crosses stood still that faithful day
As the skies sadly wept a guilted grey
On the highest hill, they would be seen
Ruled by Roman eyes that did demean
The middle cross cover...
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Categories:
bereaving, christian, easter, jesus, spiritual,
Form: Sonnet
How Could You
...How could you turn out like this
Maybe it was something that I did
I know I made my mistakes and had you feeling like second place
But I renigged on that bid
But how could you
Make me choose bet...
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Categories:
bereaving, anger,
Form: Rhyme
Ghetto Specific
...
Homegrown deprivation weeds of poverty
taste like grassroot famine
Detroit dark amber alert operatic style ...
Ms. Sing Hope
is an Ursa skydive dirt bier
Purchasing uninsured ash faul...
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Categories:
bereaving, metaphor, poverty, society, truth,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Nature of Man
...What prey tell is the nature of man
Is it to enslave, oppress and cause genocide
Or is it to love to share and to unite
It's hard sometimes to tell
As the signs are written on the wall
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Categories:
bereaving, dark, humanity, inspiration, introspection,
Form: Narrative
Stop All Wars
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~ (~) ~
"Who
is this
speaking
what can I
say for the
bereaved - lost
amid the shell of
their bitterness
and abhorrence?"
"Who will reject this
speak for their...
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Categories:
bereaving, visionary, voice, war, wisdom,
Form: Concrete
Dragons Breath
...Within the cankerous catacombs of the slaving still
Where torrential tears fall like rumbling rain
As the decomposed dust gets its felonious fill
And sanctioned sorrows receive their parasitic pai...
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Categories:
bereaving, deep, fear, imagery, pain,
Form: Rhyme
The Cross of Destiny
...Three crosses stood still that faithful day
As the skies sadly wept a guilted grey
On the highest hill they would be seen
By Roman ruled eyes that did demean
The middle cross covered in rustic ...
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Categories:
bereaving, celebration, christian, destiny, easter,
Form: Sonnet
Lament of My Life
...Lament of My Life Contest
Sponsor: Casarah Nance
~My Bereaving Eulogy~
Time seemed to pass so much faster than I expected,
All the love, loss, passion and things I have negl...
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Categories:
bereaving, bereavement, blessing, death, eulogy,
Form: Verse
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