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Best Finitude Poems


The Finitude of Death and Life
I am overjoyed over our mortality. Because if we were immortal, I wouldn't feel the need to hold your hand. I wouldn't feel the need to love you every day in fear that tomorrow I won't be able to. If we were immortal, I would...

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Categories: finitude, love,
Form: Free verse
FINITUDE OF LIFE


We are made of moments.
Everything passes:
laughter, pain,
the tear that dried without being noticed,
the perfume of youth,
the winters that seemed eternal,
the night that dies at sunrise...
so let us live for life
is brief and passes......

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Categories: finitude, allusion, appreciation, extended metaphor,
Form: Carpe Diem

Book: Reflection on the Important Things