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Best Deaths Poems

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Premium Member A Poetry Collection
Hourglass

Sand falls
Through the glass
Love falls
Within the past
Memories dance
They never last
Head in my hands
As I stare overhead
At the hourglass


Falling Down Stairs

Stairs broken
Wheels unspoken
I fell
Grasping for air
Are...

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Categories: deaths, art, guitar, humanity, introspection,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Winter Sonata
In the landscape 
of melancholy, 
where arctic 
heartbeats linger, 
I long for withered 
willows to blossom 
like speckled 
diamond petals, 
while your crystalline 
silhouette strolls...

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Categories: deaths, romantic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member March 19 Memories
Mama….it’s today
The chalendar shouts it
Today
15 years ago..you breathed your last
and I still see you in dreams
and I still miss you, Mama

I’m sitting here
in front of...

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Categories: deaths, death, faith, mother,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sophie
Sophie Scholl was raised a Christian in a Lutheran family
Born in the town of Forchtenberg in south west Germany
For standing defiant against evil with her...

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Categories: deaths, death, girl, inspirational, rose,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Poetry In Poetry a Duet of Lonely Blues
Poetry

Is not the poem
Is not the poet

Is the observations
Is the emotions

Is the diversity. entwined
Opposing views always sought

Is the love
Is the hate

Is the sadness
Of losing to...

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Categories: deaths, dark, introspection, philosophy, poetry,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member He Touched Me
Do you know what it is like to be an untouchable?
To be so filthy and disgusting
That people shrink away from you
Do you know how it...

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Categories: deaths, miracle,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Poets I Hope To Meet In Heaven - a Tribute To Chan Hurst 1979-2014
A few poems written by Chan Hurst, (Just That Archaic Poet)

I hope that we can find some comfort in them at this sad time.


"A Rational...

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Categories: deaths, dedication, farewell, friend, miss
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Remembered In Thy Full Bloom,Collaboration By Robert J Lindley, Teppo Gren and Michael P Clark
Remembered In Thy Full Bloom 
A Collaboration By,
Robert Lindley, Teppo Gren
and  Michael P Clarke.


Thou art remembered in thy full bloom,
a rose grown within my...

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Categories: deaths, art, creation, deep, devotion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Love She'D Lent
~ MY LOVE SHE'D LENT ~

I followed her where'er she went
Lured onward by her fragrant scent

She clasped his hand, a handsome gent
How could she know...

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Categories: deaths, longing, love hurts, romance,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Komorebi
i Trees

A kaleidoscope cathedral rustling,
hustling life-light into every thinning limb.
Earth-emblems embalming every rogue
marauding cell in resin. Violent poppies
dripping blood-petals on never-ending war.
Wood knots are eyes,...

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Categories: deaths, imagery, light, metaphor, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fading Rose
 When love blossoms, in full bloom, the rose of bright 
scarlet dances with sculptured petalled passion
 as alluring fragrance enchants to ignite
senses and heart...

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Categories: deaths, lost love, rose,
Form: Rispetto
Premium Member In Memory Leonard Cohen
The End of Love

A secret grief rips apart all that was
Slaves to the sexual caresses of time
Stallions in black gallop gallantly in fields
Of spring full...

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Categories: deaths, death, dedication, memory, november,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Emerald Forests
Emerald Forests

Emerald forest hiding from man's curse
if found, its never better , always worse.
Wretched destroyers we are in this abode
in our arrogance we are firmly...

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Categories: deaths, art, creation, green, meaningful,
Form: Sonnet
The Tempering of the Soul
I have lived a thousand lives, died a thousand deaths.
I have loved women unbounded and fathered an army of children.
I have killed and healed, stolen...

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Categories: deaths, atheist, mystery,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Behind His Knowing Eyes
While in the moonlit night he stood, his crew below asleep,
the captain gazed with knowing eyes upon the ocean deep.

A sinister tranquility was fleeing in...

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Categories: deaths, death,
Form: Rhyme

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