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Best Die Down Poems

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I Will Breathe In Your Rarefied Air
When you said to me,
"Climb up here,  It's pollution free."
Sacred. Safe.
Your rarefied air.
Calculating, you seemed so free.
Safeguard. Sage.
I said I could breathe...
Underrated your density.
Saintly....

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Categories: die down, education, identity, mentor,
Form: Alliteration



Our Love Will Never Die
When the moon dips low in the wayward night

and the sun rays fail to shine

when the stars stand still

the winds die down

and a chill does...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: die down, love,
Form: Free verse
Funeral of a Surrealist
Surrealist’s funeral is held in the air,
yet, his coffin is not carried by a supersonic speed plane 
flying through the open sky—altitude higher than the...

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© Su Ben  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: die down, funeral, loneliness, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
The Fireplace
In its hearth, the reds and blues
A life of its own, for us to use
A warmth is given on cold eves
And adds romance, if one...

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Categories: die down, love, passion,
Form: Couplet
Cemetery
sleek sepulchers smile
deceptive dirges die down ---
souls sing solo songs


12 March 2022...

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Categories: die down, grave, satire,
Form: Haiku



Thank Heaven For Little Girls
(To The Memories of Jon Benet Ramsey, Sherrice Iverson and Ryan Harris)

Sometimes I reach down to hold your tiny hand
And I come up feeling powerless...

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Categories: die down, loss, world,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member I'll Cry No More For You
Seems long ago - a distant time, at first when I saw you
My heart did leap within my chest; was love to spring anew?

I should...

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Categories: die down, betrayal, heartbreak, love hurts,
Form: Couplet
New Beginning
In every endeavor
There’s a beginning
There’s an end
But, all are part of the story
The most interesting  is life it has its own
From the start it’s...

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Categories: die down, on work and working,
Form: Free verse
Flower
A flower fading here today and gone tomorrow.
The breath of life created by God struggling to live and not die.
Tossed around from within, in constant...

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Categories: die down, flower,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Staying Strong
Always expect the unexpected. 
Don't be shocked by a surprise. 
Sometimes our nonchalant complacency 
presents a new gift in disguise. 

The future we had planned...

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Categories: die down, faithsilver,
Form: Rhyme
Pain
I see the blood
You too know my thoughts
You ask me why i did this
I am ashamed at the sight
I did what i needed
My mind telling...

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© Wow Itme   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: die down, dark, life, lonely, pain,
Form: Alliteration
Imaginary Friend
I can see him clearly in my 
head.
He's a fragmented image 
against the wall.
Like a fly beneath the swatter.
His voice, I hear, makes my 
skin...

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Categories: die down, absence
Form: ABC
Sea of True
All this while things will be better
That is what we heard from our forefathers
Exactly from our elders
In our turn, the same thing on the button
When...

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Categories: die down, abuse, allegory, anger, anxiety,
Form: Epic
Stage Lights
The hot white lights shining down on your face.
The warmth of the microphone you're gripping so tight in your hands.
The loud beat of the drums...

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Categories: die down, fear, fun,
Form: I do not know?
Strength Against the Storm
I can feel it coming, you know.
I can feel the atmospheric pressure plummet
As the thunderstorm approaches.
Although the pressure is falling, 
it feels more like I'm...

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Categories: die down, pain,
Form: Free verse

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