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Best Epilogue Poems

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Premium Member Thinking Out Loud
~writer's notes~

i think out loud
from my fingers to a keyboard 
so forgive me if my speak
is somewhat long winded
if it has swirls and curls
this is...

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Categories: epilogue, angel, beauty, love,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member The Stone
The tale below was carved one night
upon the stone, by candlelight
...most won’t believe, but some just might
.........most won’t believe, but some just might



  ...

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Categories: epilogue, body, death, fantasy, kiss,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member The Old Oak Tree
Oh I am but a simple leaf
         withering within the gutter
      ...

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Categories: epilogue, autumn, life, spring, summer,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Flame
PROLOGUE
The Flame, aflicker, licks and flays,
illuming evening’s negligees
With braided curls she swirls and sways,
and flits and floats in light ballets

     ...

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Categories: epilogue, life, light,
Form: Rhyme
Categories: epilogue, society, war,
Form: Ballad



Premium Member My Darling Little One, You Carried Me
A hardened and disciplined man drove to the grocery store lost in thought, 
with setting of sun, the long day's work almost found it's end.
Hoisting...

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Categories: epilogue, child, dad, daughter, father,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Black Swan Theory
(Best read with this poem's theme music playing)




"BLACK SWAN THEORY"


Free Agent
Black Swan Theory
White Pearl rolling in
Some kind of Black Pearl World

Black Swan Theory
Decoded, Fragile Love...

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Categories: epilogue, love, romance,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Food For Thought - With Chris Green
Lyrics start 0.05 - timed to the music

Pack your bags dear, there’s a Croc near
And he’s creeping, through the night
With his eye on - on...

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Categories: epilogue, food, health, scary,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member A Willow Tree
Someday I'd like to wander free
like butterfly, like bumblebee,
perhaps to plant a willow tree
beside the silent solemn sea,

before these things exist no more,
from mountain top...

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Categories: epilogue, daffodils, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Evil Eye
The darkness, now descending, floods the city as it dies
while shadows lurk in legions 'neath the looming Evil Eye.
Its frozen stare envelops all, it penetrates...

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Categories: epilogue, evil,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Song of Michael's Rose
The cottage reeks with
fluid tides of hope,
incessantly commanding.
My baby’s here.
I’ve still no word 
coming down the line from Dover.
Winter’s gone...
Spring rains have come
and with it...

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Categories: epilogue, me,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member With My Dying Breath
* My take on the theme of my contest. Just for fun. 

A canopy of silvery stars speckle the ebon expanse above me, at once...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: epilogue, anxiety, fear,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member The Good the Bad and the Ugly
Prologue:

It takes a heart free of hate
to let go of a false ownership 
to step beyond your fears
provide strangers a helping hand

It should be a...

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Categories: epilogue, evil, heart, hope, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Another Cruel Link In Their Chain
  Another Cruel Link in their Chain 

1.   Beginnings

Her babe was her joy, such a beautiful boy,
	and he suckled her breast till...

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Categories: epilogue, body, life, men,
Form: Ballad
Lord of the Flies
Harassing me for days now
Landing on my eyelid
Nosing up my nostril
Tickling my ankles
and every other exposed body part
Little bastard...

Fly-Swatter? Jack be nimble, Jack...
Folded bath towel?...

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Categories: epilogue, angst, insect,
Form: Light Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs