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Best Afterlife Poems

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Premium Member The Clouds
"HOLDING HIS HAND"

*The Voice*
God, can I hold your hand and follow you?

"God's voice"
My child, it is I who will walk with you! You walked down...

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Categories: afterlife, angel, beautiful, beauty, blessing,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member An Omen of the Taste of Twilight
Vanished

the wild magic of this place;

this wilderness I now roam alone
as its lifeblood seeps 
into 
Afterlife

..my mournful howls
across time and distance
go unanswered -
Oh, how I...

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Categories: afterlife, animal, death, fate, grief,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rebirth of the Third Angel
A body abandoned 
needs to mourns its last breath in death
a heart cast aside 
still aches to meet its last beat

and a free spirit yearns...

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Categories: afterlife, angel, beauty, butterfly, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Flight
You gave me wings 
    to experience the 
         freedom of flight 
 ...

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Categories: afterlife, beauty, death, flying, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Illuminations of Wonder and Warmth
from the sky’s black velvet cloak
points of light emanate 
drawing the wonder of all who see

but are these sequin stars
or tears in the fabric of...

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Categories: afterlife, spiritual, visionary,
Form: Free verse



An Involuntary Shudder
VII.

An involuntary shudder as I watch her 
Spread                 ...

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Categories: afterlife, myth,
Form: Rhyme
As I Dream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeJWKSbbq68

There beyond the afterlife a glimpse of a passing star 
an orbing light that flickers in submergence with the dawn
The memories of a life exuding...

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Categories: afterlife, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Nevermore Will Raven Return
*Note:  A 60-year annual tradition that involved a mysterious visitor leaving three 
roses at the grave of writer Edgar Allan Poe on the anniversary...

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Categories: afterlife, mysteryhouse, loss, birthday, grave,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Whisper of Death
My life spirals ever downward...
The grave taunts me with its laugh.
Death's bony fingers are affixed my throat
As the jester of my unmerited epitaph.

My angst at...

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Categories: afterlife, angst, confusion, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Doublethink Beliefs
  This Life

From a child taught Catholic creed,
drilled, drilled into me by school nuns;
those teachings will never recede,
but, since those days I have lived...

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Categories: afterlife, life,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Child
A child lights our way in life...
The greatest gift there is to be.
They suppress our selfish inclinations...
They set our passions free.

They give sense to our...

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Categories: afterlife, children, love, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Bard Visits 2023
Awakening with heart and mind a-spin,
methought midst some psychotic malady.
"What hellish afterlife am I now in"?
Yon passerby said "2023".
Eyes fixed on "mobile phones" with no...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: afterlife, society,
Form: Sonnet
Celeste Romance
I gaze at those fireflies in
your butter-sweet eyes that shine,
succulent with white lush pulp
of love's purity,

you hue my wildflower heart
with hyacinth, as we twirl
like spring-shaded...

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Categories: afterlife, deep, emotions, fantasy, first
Form: Dodoitsu
Premium Member Can You See?

I can’t see the muses,
Before they steal my heart.
There are simply no excuses,
For the wonder they impart.

I can’t see the wind,
Before it attacks the calm,
Leaving...

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Categories: afterlife, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, christian,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Rum n Raisin Special - Seeking Milton
Their human ma and pa were spark out in reclining chairs
But Rum and Raisin watched the TV with enraptured stares
The western had just ended with...

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Categories: afterlife, cat, remember,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs