Best At Rest Poems

Where the bluebell carpet lies
Under green and silver trees,
Yellow primrose clusters guard
The place that no one sees.

Echoes of a gentler age
Now remote from days and hours,
This is where I visit you
Resting fragranced by the flowers.

Where the woodland hides your grave
Sunlit, stirring in the breeze,
Silver ash...

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As I look at this empty Pew, I  can't help but miss you
I thought of you in a special way, realizing you did not come here to stay
you took to heaven's airway.
Declaring a Hat at Rest.

Remembering and honoring you so well
you had to answer...

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The soil is dreaming in a silent technicolour, 
peaceful and alone. It exhales, gently without the tragic 
trampling of mankind snapping roots, without the world above

and its usual stampede. Gone. Branches noticed it
first - slowly having time to stretch, to watch clouds;
time to open their...

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A pharmacon was not be, God saw you confiscating drowsy

He mantled him in his loving arms and whispered come with me 

The Family has minus one gentle fervor and heaven one angel more

Fathomless in my heart  your memory is kept of one i admired...

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I long for a day I'm carried away to hide under a rock.
Inscribed with my name, engraved with two dates.
Where peace can be found that life cannot mock.

I don't mean this in morbid intent, it's not a wish to die.
but the simple reprieve from the...

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She Lies at Rest

My heart still sings the songs of yesterday.
Where wafting words soon find their pleasant stay.
But breezy winds forestall; and steal her way.
Her endless chatter lies at rest today.

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
    January 26, 2010

Poetic form: Elegy...

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I feel the thoughts of your demise; I see the wonder in your eyes.
I can’t be seen in the light, because I’m only out at night.
I fly through the darkness on wings so light, I see you hiding in great fright.
I won’t pass you over...

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You will enter into rest
Love
Lord...

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Whose lips descend
     to mock the pursed recluse
Lives trembling mute hand
They who laugh refuse
     the strong arm
     of yesteryear.
His the pastoral symphony
     the "peace that passeth"
Through the acid heart
Unseared,...

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While Still Being at Rest


I’m trying to stay in a place of rest.
The problem with that is there’s a
melee going on in my house.
It’s just too many situations
going on at once.

My head is on a swivel looking for answers
and I am breathing fast, shallow breaths


I...

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Nature in it's most peaceful form
Wolves at rest so quick to transform
When hunger takes over
No longer quiet loafers
Becoming ravenous beasts on the hunt...

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Our bodies meet in those 
places that we both long for,
warm embraces for when we part, 
so we're always wanting more
simple touches to be kind, 
gentle caresses to restore
soft kisses to remind us, 
longer kisses to explore
deepest passions to excite us, 
till we're trembling before
the...

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My Best is at Rest.
This is a tribute to my Lifelong Best Friend Katrina.

My Best friend/Sister has passed on from this life.
She lived a life of love. To know her was to automatically love her. 
She was a mother, wife, sister, friend, Meme, aunt… all...

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Sleepy little baby lying on billows of sheets
Stories read lovingly to lay him to rest
Kindly Grandma whispered words repeat
Softly painting dreams on a hugging-pillow caressed

Fairies that frolic in mist laden places
Carry Johnny's dreaming far and wide
Cherry blossoms fall to lighten their paces
Imaginary wings find their...

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Speeding away in a rocket to Mars to start a colony
The astronaut feels his body is at rest, indeed
But in space, there is no reference frame
To tell him he is moving at an unearthly speed
Is his mind at rest? That is the million-dollar question

Mission to...

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