Best Afterlife Poems

Journey to the Afterlife - in Blue

The funeral barge of zaffre and gold sails 
as sunlight reflects like ultramarine diamonds
on River Nile. In the shade of a turquoise canopy, 
under the bright azure of heaven, Nefertiti lies,
draped in cobalt royal robes, regal
in silent sapphire. Behind...

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There is a her shaped hole in this world
A black void
If you look hard enough you can still see the sparkles of the departed
Black diamonds of the afterlife
The entrance left open 
In case he needs to follow 

It's not in the leaving she said
It's in...

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I held the hand of Jesus last night,
He woke me this morning and we looked outside.
Scratchy records played protest songs from
The 60’s, as hearses rolled by, filled with forgotten
dreams….”you can burn that paper box, boy, but 
you still gotta show”

I dropped out, then got drafted,...

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The afterlife will be full of surprises
Nothing like I might expect it to be,
No pearly gates or streets of gold--
Things won’t mean anything to me.

Life is surrounded with the material--
Money, possessions, things, and such,
In the next dimension* I’ll be spiritual
Material things won’t mean so much.

I...

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From streak and  blur of candle faint
Her  whispered breath gasps through dim hall--
That longing haunts without restraint
When a presence twirls come midnight:

Gently, gently she advances
Yet tapered wax fades…bleak the loft
And she aches for snuffled chances;
To meet him …in world’s afterlife.


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05/08/2019
Free Verse or Rhyme...

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If our soul is also mind
And we don’t leave it behind,
Then afterlife will be okay;
There is space for lots of play....

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The parade of endless colors is over, 
all the leaves are dead or dying
scurrying about like frantic crabs
back and forth across an icy-icy land
clinging along the fence line of time
swirling around cul-de-sac and doorways
like gothic teens with little reason to shine
...but unchained from their master's...

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in my later years
I ponder the afterlife
and part of me yearns
to meet up with loved ones
gone too soon

they are home
and sometimes
when I’m tired of it all
I miss home

I believe in my soul
earth is the place
celestial beings
choose to visit 
when they are bored
with being blissfully happy
and...

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Spreading the good news
Spreading the kindness
Kindness keeps spreading
Kindness heals rascals
Rascals were lying
Rascals and the pope
Pope and Cardinals
Pope re-entered Rome
Rome the papal territory
Rome the city of roman religion
Religion has no office hours
Religion as a set of an ‘unseen’ being
Being a light to others
Being Christian is more...

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I drown you in wine, the goddamn squatter 
who lives in me. Flow, Lethe, dark and deep!
But even through a drunken dreamless sleep,
like a nude drowned man in see-through water,
the memory is seen… That very sunny
day on the river, tender girlish hands
doing my back with...

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Meet me there ...
Be it rain or shine,
Since I like both
Any weather is fine

Find me there ...
With those already met,
To mingle there ...
With ones I haven't yet

In a good place where 
We can laugh and smile,
And talk to the ones
Not seen in awhile 

I'll be...

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Green is my Love, and all she touches, blossoms!
And from her fingers, golden flecks appear!
Green is my Love, her lips always Truthsaying,
She does not even know the name of Fear!

Green are her Eyes, as dark as moss, as agate…
And from her heart floods forth the...

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. . . and with a haughty drink 
of Virgil’s water 
from the River Lethe
I venture forth knowing nothing
bring on the steps ahead 
and what awaits . . .

but the waters have a taste
and some things feel familiar
a few of the steps ahead
look like my...

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I am in this quiet place.
I can hear laughter as they race,
To join me by these waters,
To tell stories of our journeys.

Shortly I feel their touch,
As our hands and faces embrace.
We are happy tonight,
Here in the quiet moonlight.

It is my friends whom I love so...

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there waiting for me
on the other side
i like to think
of all those
before me
who have passed
and one day
will line up
by the light
with open arms
to welcome me



AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Posted on July 23 2020...

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