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Best Bequeathing Poems

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What We Leave Behind
I think of those I knew who’ve passed
And what they’ve left behind,
Impressions that remain engraved
In caverns of my mind.

Perhaps just an expression
Or some laughter we...

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Categories: bequeathing, memory,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member You Are the One
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Opening the closet of narra doors, I sweep through
organza skirts and  gemmed ringlets; my hair
ruffling aimlessly upon scalloped kerchiefs
smelling decade - old hyacinth, Mom’s...

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Categories: bequeathing, longing, mother daughter,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Our Midnight the Unseen Within
Our Midnight The Unseen Within
        ( Collaboration )

Silent unto our sense, yet musical
With eternal harmony, they move
About our...

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Categories: bequeathing, angel, appreciation, beautiful, blessing,
Form: Classicism
Unsung Heroes
What now of heroes can I speak
Who raise the mild and loft the meek
Bequeathing glory, love untold
With ne’re a thought their heart unfolds

A spirit bright...

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Categories: bequeathing, hero,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Absinthe Leaves
In the firmament of trees
October's eye
looks down in cruel azure
on summer's absinthe leaves,
flocking like survivors
to a mortal haven.
Autumn's blood magma
creeps through leaves
bequeathing fire 
and brittle...

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Categories: bequeathing, autumn, imagery, sky, tree,
Form: Ekphrasis



Premium Member Unassailable Purity
Unassailable purity, a cognition divine of venerated mind,
Proffers promise inviolable, beneficence sacred aligned,
With force invincible emanating from goodwill of heart
Forming precepts impeccable, teachings benevolent impart.

Purity...

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Categories: bequeathing, inspirational, meaningful, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member From the Cross
Of seven things you said while on the cross
Dear Lord, the one that pierces so my heart
Is what you said to Mary, suffering loss
Your agony...

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Categories: bequeathing, jesus, love, mother,
Form: Rhyme
Unrelenting
How does my body
This flesh that withholds my soul,,
manage to bear the weight from the chains that have been embedded upon my bequeathing heart?

Where does...

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Categories: bequeathing, bereavement, betrayal, confusion, devotion,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Last Detour
On this soft autumn evening all is still 
The moon drifts over clouds that gently flow
Bequeathing through us humbleness and thrill. 
To fade in its...

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Categories: bequeathing, life,
Form: Sonnet
Death
death can never cease to exist
what lives in my every moment
the softness within her eyes
a light brush of a hand
taking my breath away
lips as doves...

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Categories: bequeathing, death, encouraging,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Cruising With the Sky
By duskfall, I cruise with the sky, 
throwing life’s pebbles unto ripples
of yearning… and she lifts her veil against
the moist air fondling the blue of...

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Categories: bequeathing, music, sky,
Form: Light Verse
Our Midnight the Unseen Within Collaboration
Silent unto our sense, yet musical
With eternal harmony, they move
About our darkened vision, the beautiful ones,
Angels of destiny.

Pale with the dawn, sun-golden with the noontide,
They...

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Categories: bequeathing, angel, hope, love, senses,
Form: Classicism
Methuselah Star
Those who do not die are known to live beyond the veil 
disheveled in the light like a Polaris star
that lusters in the sky with...

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Categories: bequeathing, star,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Awesome Gems, As Were Set By Divine Measure
Awesome Gems, As Were Set By Divine Measure

The Sun, a shimmering sky fired lake
Oft penetrating the soul, body and heart
No worries, shining glow it never...

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Categories: bequeathing, appreciation, art, beauty, blessing,
Form: Rhyme
Stone
Stone did not give up on us,
we just made stone socially conscious.
Many hotels and banks are still stone clad,
the rich still use stone,
but most of...

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Categories: bequeathing, poverty,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Shattered Sighs