Best Dying Breath Poems

* My take on the theme of my contest. Just for fun. 

A canopy of silvery stars speckle the ebon expanse above me, at once beautiful but at the same time, taunting. For if these jewels in space were sculpted by a benevolent Creator, why...

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With my last dying breath, I will whisper your name. As my life slips away slowly, so does this pain. 
   Your name passes my lips, and releases it's grip. No more need to hold on, to this broken love trip. 
   Let me die all alone,...

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At the moment of death, when our body falls,
as our whole life replays through our laboured mind,
what are the dark spots our heart then there recalls,
that still exercises a relentless bind
on our consciousness far removed from bliss squalls,
having not pursued pathways loving and kind
and thus...

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Give me once today,
To say and make it all be clear.
I wish somehow and in some way,
That she will soon be here.

I long for no one else;
She's the one I wish to have.
Before my dying breath,
May our hearts be joined at last....

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one last dying breath
God is source of all our faith
helped when we death

now free and once slaves
while we watched wonderful wave
glad that Jesus saves

first thing when we rise
after shower body dries
Jesus for us dies

who we love so true
when we had heard him meow
was our cat...

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One last breath
A life extinguished
All that’s left
Few things
Lasting memories
In an instant
The end
And suddenly
It’s over in a wink



AP: 2nd place 2021, Honorable Mention 2020, Front Page Pick 2022

Posted on April 13, 2019...

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