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Best Dead And Gone Poems

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When I'M Dead and Gone
When I’m dead and gone

you’ll still be having fun.

Occasionally remembering

when we were under the sun.

When I’m dead and gone

tears will be shed.

Memories suddenly remembered

only to...

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© Kee Greene  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dead and gone, addiction, dark, death, depression,
Form: Rhyme



Mallee Rain
A twisting whirly musters
hard baked leaves and bark.
There’s another red sunset,
just before it’s dark.
The wilting wattles weep,
and plea ‘I can’t live on!’
The strong keep fighting...

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Categories: dead and gone, nature, weather,
Form: Lyric
The Skeleton Tree
i am the skeleton tree
bare branches where leaves
are suppose to be
i am the skeleton tree
bare bones and no flesh
not another me
i am the skeleton tree
thousands...

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Categories: dead and gone, faith, funeral,
Form: Rhyme
Cousin Tallie
My cousin Tallie
was a real-life
award winning
beauty queen
from age six to eighteen

The kind who seems
a cardboard cut-out
Southern stereotype
all big hair and hype
manicured nails and
well arranged...
assets
but in...

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Categories: dead and gone, abuse, community, family, growing
Form: Free verse
When I’m in Heaven
I think when I’m in heaven,
I’ll put my feet on a soft cloud.
Pour some Tennessee whisky,
and read poetry to the crowd.

I’ll hug my dad a...

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Categories: dead and gone, poetry,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Hidden Garden In My Winter Forest
"The Hidden Garden in My Winter Forest"



First you must find the steps
Covered in wet moss, fog and cobwebs
It’s not easy to find, 
the Hidden Garden...

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Categories: dead and gone, birth, daughter, death, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Painful Love Affair
PAINFUL LOVE AFFAIR

I love you, my love
I don't know why?
You are working hard,
I love you from nine to five
Soon will clock out
Going to our separate...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dead and gone, husband, imagination, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
A Faceless Enemy (What's There To Celebrate)
He appear to be a ladd of maybe 9 yrs. old.  It's Friday, as our troop's prepared to move
out unto enemy territory, and then...

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Categories: dead and gone, black african american, confusion,
Form: Personification
Premium Member The Reaper's Return
The cockroach crawling inside a satin evil darkness
as one clown weeps into silken soft sensual feelings, 
as a blinking starlight beacon awaits a tense message
of...

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Categories: dead and gone, dark, deep, emotions, feelings,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Beatle Mania
When the fab four hit the floor
Back in the year of sixty four
We all would scream and shout
Now we wonder what it was all about
We...

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Categories: dead and gone, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
The Living and the Dead
On a parched outback plain,
there is a winding course.
Red gums line the banks
of a once water source.
But sand is creeping quickly,
through drought and failing rain,
so...

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Categories: dead and gone, environment, nature,
Form: Rhyme
The Wretched Prince
"The Wretched Prince"

You were my hope
And all my dreams,
But all of that has changed,
It seems

Because I treated 
You so bad,
Destroying everything
We had

And if I could
Just...

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Categories: dead and gone, christian, farewell, girlfriend, goodbye,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Exhale
Inhale
My friend has prepared me
For the final moments
She sits beside me calm
A woman not scared
Or so she says…
But I see the fear 
In her eyes
For...

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Categories: dead and gone, death, death of a
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Watched Midnight Sun Fall Into Dark Shades of Oblivion, a Trilogy
Predator Antiqua Multis Versus Respiciens Tempus


I Watched Midnight Sun Fall Into Dark Shades Of Oblivion

Part I

I watched midnight sun fall into dark shades of oblivion
with...

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Categories: dead and gone, appreciation, art, birth, blessing,
Form: Rhyme
Love Thy Brother.
Brothers killing brothers......a field of blood
sisters slaying sisters.......instead of bearing sons.
mothers ,daughters..fathers, sons
all dead and gone, kindred spirits slaughtered one by one
by the hand of...

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Categories: dead and gone, sad, war, war,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things