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Best Back From The Dead Poems

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Premium Member In Land of Cockaigne
I was driving home late one cold Winters night
It was minus ten and the moon shone bright
Then in my car headlights a young girl I...

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Categories: back from the dead, car, chocolate, fantasy, girl,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Taunting the Dragon
My head rests on the doorframe, as I'm watching him at work.
I'm jealous of the devotion, and the motion of his hands,
much surprised at the...

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Categories: back from the dead, love, lust, senses, words,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Bill Clinton
Never hid in Jefferson Airplane
Never beat his wife
Never wept on the floor of jail
Never drank his life away
Never ranted on soldiers grave
Never changed his name
Never...

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Categories: back from the dead, art, death, drink, evil,
Form: Free verse
A Quiet River
Along a quiet river to nowhere were styx lean like broken crosses. The wind is gentle with a sent of quite decay or is that...

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Categories: back from the dead, adventure, allegory, allusion, analogy,
Form: Rhyme
Resurrection
Do you ever wish upon a star
That he will find out where you are
Come and find your hiding place
Make your cold heart start to race
Kiss...

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Categories: back from the dead, death, love
Form: I do not know?



Premium Member Strange Return
It was just an old ravish smile
that caused me alarm,
when all those years ago you first
resonated within my chronic confusion.
I thought you were my father
back...

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Categories: back from the dead, angst,
Form: Free verse
Resurrection
Cracked mirrors,
I stood alone in this blood soaked hell I created
I build this forsaken structure with my own two soiled hands 
Hid my tears behind...

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Categories: back from the dead, creation, youth,
Form: Free verse
All In a Days Work
God created the heavens and Earth,
Presided at a child’s birth,
Made man from a pile of clay,
Welcomes saints to glory everyday.

God smote the Philistines and Egyptians...

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Categories: back from the dead, religious,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Beloved Femme Fatale
“Beloved Femme Fatale”


Musk and Neroli satin skin spoons
Naked feet ‘neath The Pillars of Petra
She towers majestic above you, colours your grey skies
You are worshipping her...

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Categories: back from the dead, love, romance, sensual,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member We Are Pure Light and Energy
the biggest obstacle you face today, is not what's outside your door, but what's inside your mind......can you challenge yourself to challenge yourself?  You've...

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Categories: back from the dead, birth, graduate, humanity, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Notes On Death
It is the PROMISE OF NEW KINGSHIP.  THE END OF FIGHT  'Til an unending bloody finish.
The BEGINNING OF THE MIGHTY QUEST TO END...

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Categories: back from the dead, dark, death,
Form: Narrative
Why Does Your Heart Not Return My Call
Blinded by the light ahead

Looking back but feeling dead

A mystery written in our story told

Waiting for a new life to unfold

Changing ways bring a new...

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Categories: back from the dead, loss,
Form: Rhyme
Memories and Past Lives
Last night my sister died
One week before the Winter Solstice.
My father was worried about her jewelry.
He, one of my other sisters and me,
went to the...

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© Mel Brake  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: back from the dead, father daughter, inspirational, father,
Form: Free verse
The Man In the Mist
~~oooOOO  The Man In The Mist  OOOooo~~

Going to my cousins house, a long drive in the car
Over the moors with dry stone walls,...

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Categories: back from the dead, fear, house, sister, night,
Form: Narrative
The Comeback King Is Coming Back For You
The Come-back King is Coming Back for You  [Lyrics of Song]

(Written by inspiration of Singer, Wintley Phipps)

Jesus is the come-back King—
He came back from...

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Categories: back from the dead, faith, inspirational, song-
Form: Lyric

Book: Reflection on the Important Things