Best Congestive Poems

Eileen was born 80 1/2 years ago
on the first day of winter on the ground a bit of snow
with a twinkle in her eyes and...

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Long ago in the not too distant future, whence temporal tense was but a phase,
I found myself afloat inside my head, from where I feared...

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Tell me again
This wealth you gasp and clamour for
This strategy you wield
From the invincible substratum
Where the hunt pursues the frenzied heart
And the congestive traffic of...

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Mom was always so energetic and vibrant
always practical how her time was spent
her house so orderly and well kept
tenants in her cottage paying her rent,

Then...

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Thirty years I have lived with chronic heart disease,
After heart surgery at fifty, more problems arrived,
I have felt like I am living on a high-wire...

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I will always recall the day
my mom died.

She was in recovery for 
congestive heart surgery.
The work itself had gone well 
but brought on massive clots...

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Last fall she was dancing up a storm
at her grandsons wedding attire adorned,
having more energy than the energizer bunny
twirling around having a demeanor very sunny,

Then...

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Saltine crackers have become my worst enemy
Add that to my rapidly-growing list of “do-not-eats”
Along with many common foods I considered treats
Salt, sugar, and fats, in...

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An Emergency She Did Entail

This is what happened.
Was congestive heart failure
caused by pneumonia. Seems
to be latest thing.

She had started appearing frail and pale,
And several tests...

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How fast the years did clip and leap away,
till your Earth orbitz count ninety decades
+ uno journeys orbited around mister sun
encompassing metaphorical magnum opus
figuratively paginated...

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You and I are different, apparently separate, and end the same at our END
Death is that unannounced birthday gift, we never open in life
When I...

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Since advent of *****sapiens
objection overruled against immortality
all across millenniums humans
generated, amplified, and

idly reverberated (Billy me) rebel yell,
when finality 'twixt consciousness
eternal existence doth die as...

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You never realize how much you love 
Someone until you are next to them 
In their possible death bed unconscious;
I will never forget the terrible...

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After papa succumbed
to congestive heart failure
October 7th, 2020 yours truly
neglected fulfilling promised score.

I did shirk maintaining bond
with youngest sister
who when a boy especially fond
regarding said...

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