Best Dirges Poems
Death Said To the Rose...Who bade your life to live as such
pervading hearts with perfumed nose?
As down thy petals tempt the touch
when all for passions sake you're chose.
With lifetimes taken to bloom no more
you fl......
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Categories:
dirges, death, rose,
Form:
Sonnet
No One Counts the Bodies Jesus Walked Past...
Kensington spreads its legs—
lets the city crawl in,
dripping Xylazine / fentanyl / tranq,
open sore veins
moaning dirty dirges.
False prophets—
all piss and panic—
bark half-lies
......
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Categories:
dirges, addiction, death, drug, mental
Form:
Didactic
Shadow To Shadow...••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
Shadow to shadow, shade to shade
In youth the Eden where you played
was left bereft, destroyed, decayed,
by trusts malignant masquerade
Shadow to sha......
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Categories:
dirges, abuse, betrayal, child abuse,
Form:
Monorhyme
Light...Light 1-29-24 Syllables checked with www.howmanysyllables
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Light
Nightfall’s hand laid heavy on fleeing twilight
While the darkness, born early,......
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Categories:
dirges, angel, hope, night, rain,
Form:
Ghazal
Shadow To Shadow Revised...=======================
Shadow to shadow, shade to shade
In youth the Eden where I played
was left bereft, destroyed, decayed,
by trusts malignant masquerade
Shadow to shadow, shade to shade
......
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Categories:
dirges, abuse, anger, assonance, betrayal,
Form:
Monorhyme
Castle By the Sea...There stands a desolate castle on England's venerable shore,
That once sheltered a royal line that ruled its sprawling realm.
Now, according to local lore, eerie things are seen and heard,
In that......
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Categories:
dirges, mystery
Form:
Ballad
Dappled Winds...Dappled Winds
Phantom gliders in the sky rise at day
To rush the firmament on dappled winds,
Heaven’s piebald appaloosas at play,
Brindled tempests ruffle zephyr’s fringes
On stippled flurries......
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Categories:
dirges, wind,
Form:
Dizain
Bereaved...The ice-cold sun was hid
Behind a bank of clouds that came unbid,
Ugly freezing winds blew
Birds felt it all and flew
No place to rest, they knew.
The black cypress did their shelter forbid. ......
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Categories:
dirges, bereavement,
Form:
Rhyme
What Rusts In the Rain...What Rusts In The Rain
(For The Memory Of William S. Burroughs
& Typewriters)
It is Lawrence, Kansas and the sky opens
up as if a doppelganger of all mothers and
wombs
Leaving out rain as......
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Categories:
dirges, absence
Form:
Free verse
Undoing the Disarmament of Venus de Milo: Aphrodite Gets Her Biceps Back...Tombs begin to bloom like raw, bloodless wounds.
Tomes are written with truths of her dead moon’s
tones. A keening lunacy keeps the dirges alive, while
bones rise out of repose. A degloved hand on......
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Categories:
dirges, appreciation, art, betrayal, death,
Form:
Rhyme
Eighty-Eight Keys...Eighty-eight keys of ivory
Create the story of history
From requiems and waltzes
To rhythm and blues,
From dirges and ballads
To pop and rock,
How amazing! What stories are told
By gifted musi......
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Categories:
dirges, music,
Form:
Free verse
Elegy for Old Growth...Elegy – 7-17-24
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Elegy for Old Growth
Through measures of metered melancholy
The tattered winds sing a rent elegy,
A pensive wai......
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Categories:
dirges, death, life, nature,
Form:
Elegy
The Discarded, The Forgotten...I am accustomed to spitting out bones of my prisoners, not witnessing their escape. I hear whales whistle their stoic dirges as I descend—they know the doomed are villains and freedom is promised to ......
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Categories:
dirges, allegory, angel, character, confidence,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Treasure the Pleasure of God's Blessings...once i had footprints as tattoos
the art was tasteless
the seed was a hateful hoax
once i had phlegm laced spit in every hair follicle
the gleam was unattractive
the roots were unbalanced and ......
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Categories:
dirges, memory, remember, tribute,
Form:
Free verse
Day of Silence...Day of Silence
A shredded temple curtain lies
Upon a shattered floor;
Silent Sabbath,
Daylight weeps before a stone,
Birds withhold their songs,
Dawn - undecided -
Rain - holding its breath ......
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Categories:
dirges, easter,
Form:
Free verse