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Ashes To Ashes
A Beckoning finger glides her flight
tasting the wind,
to gather insight

Lifting her arms tendril-ed to light
drifting in feeling,
is darkness and fright

Soaring to plains,knights had fought
in helmets...

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Categories: ashes to ashes, fantasy
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Held Aloft
We'd laid old George to rest the week before,
at ninety-one he now rejoined his wife,
no heirs to his estate, so one thing more
to do, and...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ashes to ashes, heartbreak,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Last Train To Auschwitz Contest
Ashes to Ashes

Smoke
rises in the distance.

The boxcar
rocks,
rocks,
rocks;
stones
are placed along the ties.
Were they placed by Chance
or left 
as gently as Kaddish.
I lift my hands in the...

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Categories: ashes to ashes, angst, death, death of
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Monopoly - Fast Track Equations
“Monopoly - Fast Track Equations”



Razor sharp cut quite clear
He says Trust
She says Fear


Broken glass and hidden things
He says Respect
She says Trust 


Ashes to Ashes
Dust to...

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Categories: ashes to ashes, abuse, for her, for
Form: Free verse
Praying For a Quick Death
Quickly, 
Quickly, 
Quickly.

You spoke in search of light relief

And hearing your cries for Help

I cried myself to Sleep

On the rotten old couch upstairs 

While Mum...

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Categories: ashes to ashes, cancer, death, slam,
Form: Free verse



After Life
Ashes to ashes,
Dust to dust,

While you were alive,
Who did you trust,

Did you trust the One,
That did so much,

Or were you blinded,
By vanity,the evil touch,

The choice...

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Categories: ashes to ashes, faith, inspirational, life,
Form: Didactic
Mausoleum
‘Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust’

(No one is going to bust up MY insides,
sew my eyes and mouth shut,
drain my blood and...

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Categories: ashes to ashes, loss, mother,
Form: Free verse
Soul Transporter
What is Love?, but the transporter of the Spirit
Neither Fair or Foul the Truth of it is that we Fear It

When a woman of young...

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Categories: ashes to ashes, allegory, allusion, death, humanity,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Read Between the Lines
Read Between The Lines

It was the point of a meaningless moon,
That being dealt life, its absolute gloom,
Vague stars shone hope to reposed past of Earth,
Dusk...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ashes to ashes, crush, imagery, kiss, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Crackled
_ _ _ _While walking one day in crisp autumn air, 
On the edge of the sidewalk,  I saw it so clearly_ _ _...

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Categories: ashes to ashes, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Test of Faith 1 With Retort /Conor Jordon/ *d. Guzzi
He's running out of Colour.
                   *eternity eternal...

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Categories: ashes to ashes, faithheart, heart, daffodils, universe,
Form: Free verse
What It's Like To Sing the Blues
I was borne to the winter
Carried into this world with the wind
The snowflakes were my mother
And my father was the hail that ushered in
I've never...

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Categories: ashes to ashes, blue, character, farewell, how
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Buried
What do I say?
On this cherry day
At my own funeral
Where I execute and burry
The Burdon I once carried
Where I let go 
Of the life, I’ve...

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Categories: ashes to ashes, courage, emotions, freedom, goodbye,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Regeneration
each grain of sand, every molecule
has rested on Earth since time began
raindrops now fall and dampen my hair
once part of waves rushing through mom's hands
...

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Categories: ashes to ashes, introspection, life
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Poem To Self In Passing
Bury me not to rot deep in the bowels of earth,
all alone in the cold, silent, dank wetness of dirt.
For the very first day I...

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Categories: ashes to ashes, birth, death, sea,
Form: Rhyme

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