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Best Dirges Poems


No Dirges, Please
Sing me no mournful dirges--
No funeral hymns of morbid night.
But sing me anthems of the morning--
Of new beginnings, dawning bright.

Do not rain upon my pageant--
Bring out the rainbow tinted sky.
There’s time enough for dark and dismal,
Let's bask in sunshine, till we die....

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Categories: dirges, happiness, life, uplifting, me,
Form:
Burnt Offering
Lame lyrics of lost love penned by sweatered sirens
deep as divots, shallow as puddles
Doesn’t teenage angst get old by the time you’re thirty?
I’d think so, yet the lackeys lap it up like maple syrup
I derive my dirges from a deeper well
dredging the depths 
the abyss...

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Categories: dirges, deep, fire, pain, poetess,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things