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Best Afterworld Poems

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Between Storm and Afterworld
opening and closing
wings bare of colored dust
a butterfly dies...

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Categories: afterworld, death, loss, nature,
Form: Haiku



Afterworld
Walking in the cold void,
Armies retreating in paranoid... 

Families living in pride, 
Flag honouring the patriotic souls...
Medals of honour for the call of duty. 

Cold...

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Categories: afterworld, adventure, faith, war, world,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sailor At Sea
Sometimes I feel like I am just slipping away.  Slide me in the water like a dead man at sea.  I can feel...

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Categories: afterworld, allusion, death, farewell,
Form: Narrative
Slowly
The entire time we spent
Searching through ruins and sands
For a reason or just
An answer that would
Allow us to sleep
But the rain
Didn't come to save us...

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Categories: afterworld, magic, math, memory,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member She Sits Alone
Two gazes crossed in the crowded room
Discreetly, without being discovered 
Sending a message that only someone
Who is in love decodes its meaning 

Sometimes eyes reveal...

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Categories: afterworld, love,
Form: Free verse



Addictive Ampoules Annihilate After Alluring
amphetamines acquaintanceship assuages 
agonizing aches also advocates amorousness
assiduously activating admiration
aggressive attacks assault afoul 

affable affinity and affectionadumbration
anatomical accidental addiction attested as academic,
although afterward abnegation absolutely...

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Categories: afterworld, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Alliteration
Peyote
Shadows dance upon the plains as spirits speak their prayers
In the light of the flickering flames they reflect in flares
Smoke and ash, they hint their...

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Categories: afterworld, imagination, native american, nature,
Form: I do not know?
On This Life's Sorrowful Barge I Doth Float
On this 
Life’s sorrowful 
barge I doth float 

Much too 
much a traveler 
Alas too far 
remote 
from any 
hearing and 
caring Being 

Caining 
me...

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Categories: afterworld, son, song-lyric
Form: Free verse
The Heart's Malcontent Eye
Secluded mind murder
Windows are false inside here
I find here,deep inside here...i don't find myself hoping for peace
These clouds of despair that blind the battlefield have...

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Categories: afterworld, angst, art, confusion, death,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Of the Coming Fire
the skelton of the watch
a vigil for the passing dead
things left unfed 
wraiths wander on 
watching wanting waiting 
guiding the blind in to the light
the...

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Categories: afterworld, age, allegory, allusion, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Numb
Do they see how I feel?
Hate is all I see in their eyes.
My body has no feeling at all. 
Numb.

I can’t feel the pain that
They...

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Categories: afterworld, angst, depression, body,
Form: I do not know?
Eternal Flame [ Minus One Stanza and Envoi ]
The wicked world, in this age is full of sin,
All youth have a lust for the obscene;
The hour has come to cleanse the skin,
Our bodies,...

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Categories: afterworld, death, fantasy, imagination, life,
Form: Chant Royal
Premium Member Skin Color Is a Thing
Until I got to college I had never heard the term black or white.
Because I was not listening possibly, or more so that I never...

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Categories: afterworld, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Dastardly Dispirited
Sadness within me is my skald,
Ignorant world, taunting my afterworld,
Why is my soul in this soil pinfold... 

The sky is filled with dark enshroud,
Am dumbstruck,...

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Categories: afterworld, abuse, betrayal, courage, lost
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Anubis
Anubis

Life to death to afterlife
Anubis closes the sarcophagus
With words of farewell
To the mummy enclosed within,

“Expand your horizon
or shrink your vision
this perception
will be your universe,
and when...

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Categories: afterworld, bereavement, death, religion, spiritual,
Form: Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs