Best Immortality Poems
Upon waking up this day, a single tear
Father your eternal immortality
Still proves wise and gracious
I haven’t been misled by popular opinion
Which should be taken with a grain of salt
You showed me how to expose the counterfeits
who foster misperceptions,
Which have shaped our faith
How to think with an open mind, heart, and soul
Father, your every word was a rare gift
A worth guide__
A teardrop of glad remembrance and a
Prayer for your soul
Mark
The earth turns its face from you
as if ashamed. You
who tilled the soil, now marked
by what the soil received.
Your brother's blood—
how it murmurs, how it screams.
Deafness would be a mercy.
Wanderer
At Babel, you watch them build
their tongues a discordance of hope.
You know better.
The tower falls. Always, things fall.
In Athens, questions hang in the air
like ripe fruit. You reach for one
find your hand empty.
Constantinople burns.
You've seen this fire before
in your own heart, in Abel's eyes.
Love
Her laughter—sunlight on water.
For a moment, you forget remembering
the weight of your name.
Time, that relentless thief,
steals her breath, leaving you
with pockets full of silence,
her absence echoing in your eternal night.
Witness
Verdun. Mud and blood
indistinguishable. You've carried this earth before,
will carry it again. In Selma, voices rise.
You join the chorus, unseen.
Your story spoiled, yet written
in every cry for justice,
a testament to your own unending quest for peace.
Grace
The sea spilling secrets
waves crashing against the shores of your soul.
In a quiet cell, you contemplate forgiveness—
that impossible shore.
Your heart is a vessel of unspoken prayers.
Each wave a reminder: the divine
as elusive as your peace.
Mortality
She sees you—truly sees.
Beyond the mark, the myth,
to the man who carries centuries in his bones.
You learn to love in moments, not millennia.
Each breath a gift, each touch a benediction
her presence a bridge to your humanity.
Return
The earth no longer rejects you.
You lay down, finally
into the arms of the brother
you've carried all this time.
Abel smiles. You close your eyes.
The silence, at last, is sweet.
To live forever! Think how it might be!
Oh Fount of Youth more prized than all earth’s gold.
To be as ancient gods and not grow old!
To banish all disease and see death flee
before the face of immortality!
With less to dread, would we become more bold?
Alas, the fate of mortals is foretold.
We live with dying and its misery.
But death is not the end. We’re here to learn.
The planet Earth is our brief testing ground,
and when we die, our spirits then take flight.
Perhaps to earth in new forms we return!
But to our graves I know we are not bound
because, at last, we’ll travel to God’s light.
March 3, 2017 An Italian Sonnet
for Broken Wing's I Form( Immortal theme) Poetry Contest
Now for ''I'' Contest New Or Old Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Constance La France
(thanks for letting us resurrect older poems!)
Your house still smells like you:
Warm shortbread and lavender soap -
Comforting and agonizing.
Your plants still bloom,
Perched beside the window
Where the kettle waits to be filled.
But your rocking chair is still
And all is quiet.
I could have fallen to pieces
Like a hand-blown vase
Hurled against green walls
Or dropped on old floorboards
Through fingers slick with shock.
But you sewed me up
With words gone by.
Your remnant thoughts
(So similar to thoughts I've had)
Penned in your slanted scrawl,
Filling pages with perfect rhymes
And clever observations.
Here you'll live forever
In vibrant verses and lilting lines.
And I'll live here too
Until the last salty drop
Lands on the final page.
The poet dies, but does not die
if he has left a line
black inked upon enduring page
or lingered on the mind.
With no thought than to see it grow,
the gardener plants a tree,
his immortality assured,
by shade for posterity.
A way to prove that we were here,
a child in whom, our truths appear.
Life Fled As I Sought Yet Another Day,
( verses born from the illusion of immortality, 1977)
Part One
As I went beyond that black veil,
Having trod this earth and seen hell,
I look back while daring to say,
" Life fled as I sought yet another day."
Yes, youth was fine in days of dust,
Love its great bounty sought, a must,
Little thought of the later pay
" Life fled as I sought yet another day."
World was a ride, its glory great,
Of its sweetest pleasures I ate,
I that went about my own way,
" Life fled as I sought yet another day."
I a warrior born by birth,
A child of heart, a child of earth,
A lone vagabond as they say
" Life fled as I sought yet another day."
A true joy, my shadow and I,
Wanderer beneath heavenly sky,
Hellbent to do just as I may,
" Life fled as I sought yet another day."
O' sweet future lay at my feet,
As I sought coming death to cheat,
Fate cried, " No more can you stay"
" Life fled as I sought yet another day."
As I went beyond that black veil,
Having trod this earth and seen hell,
I look back while daring to say,
" Life fled as I sought yet another day."
Robert J. Lindley, March 5th, 1977
Rhyme, ( To live, love and dream, a life )
Presented 1-13-2021
Note: deleted
“I don’t believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to
have some version of such a thing is through my books.”
-Issac Asminov
With age, thoughts turn to life’s totality,
and death, the sign of its finality.
To live forever, our mentality,
and yet to die, a factuality.
I say to you, it is reality,
our poetry’s our immortality.
“Once we place our thoughts upon the page,
they will last forever.”
September 1, 2019
We need to "Love" what we have "Got to be",so that we can have "Immorality"! There is a "Fire inside of you and me"!!! The fire is there so that we can reach "Immortality"! I and you can find the "Dream that can come true with the "Fire that burns inside of me and inside of you"!!!"The Master is "True"!!! Jesus Christ "loved what he had to be!He did it for his love of me and you! We can "Love who we are,and who we must be!We maybe in a wheelchair,in a Nursing Home,cripple,crazy, incarcerated,president,or of any religion,or no religion at all! We might fall,and we will! We need to "Love who we must be so that we can have "Immortality"!!! We can find the dream,and "The dream is to find "The Master True" who will see us through: Eternity to reach Immortality after "Time stops at the speed of light! I "Love what I "Have got to be"!!! I will have "Immortality" for being who I am as "The Master True" sees me through this "Earthly Reality"as I learn to "Love" what I have got to be to reach "Immortality" that inspires "The Fire inside of me"; The Fire of "Immortality"! The "Master True" made a "Baby" who died at the age of two so that that "Baby" would have "Immortality",and be an "Angel"in "Heaven"to "Defeat""The Devil Himself"who hurts the poor,and is greedy and does not share any monetary wealth! Immorality is the reason that their is a "Fire inside of me and you,so that we can travel through "Eternity",and reach Immortality!We can be the best "Mortal" we can be,and that helps us to reach "Immortality"!There is a "Fire in me and you! We need to realize that that "Fire is Immortality that "The Master True" give to "Me and You"! The Only Begotten Son of "The Living God"s "Word"are "True"! Red ,Yellow,Brown,Black,White will all meet "The Master True"! Keep that "Fire inside of you",no matter what you must go through!!! "Mother Nature gives birth,and "Father Time lets her!!! The "Mortal" will meet the "Maker",and we will not need an "Undertaker",but we will surely need a "Savior"!!!!!!!
Once, we had unlimited fun
Until life’s duties had us on a run
Memories consumed us old,
yet, for new experiences we jump
Please, do not cry, while I die
I rather you not lie
Time so scarce, you never said goodbye
As you reminisce great times awake
I take enjoyable moments in wake
Embrace belove new things you are yet to make
Back to Earth, my contribution to nature awakes
Helping trees grow, while purifying a lake
Turn up those popular music
Dance in celebration of memories late
Be good, for goodness’ sake
For in this moment’s time, you hold the ingredients
to the cake you most desired to bake
Mines, many unfinished tasks laid aside
Yours, life’s journey you must decide
In eternal uncertainties, I go to reside
Until we meet again on the sunny side
By: Steven E. Keller
If I were immortal I’d wish to be
An Earth angel who sets those in chains free
I’d enter every evil person’s heart
Putting a stop to wars before they start.
If I were immortal no one would weep
I’d spread happiness whilst the broken sleep
I accept partings come in silent grief
And would affirm that grief is a relief.
I would aim to be a blessed precious lamb
Bringing joys to the brotherhood of man
Or a shepherdess with a magic crook
Keeping folk in order with just one look.
I’d see that birds were content in a tree
Chirping away happily constantly
That they’d soar o’er sky of infinite girth
Where nothing’s heard between Heaven and Earth.
I'd be a singer upon the world's stage
Singing songs heard from cradle to the grave
Songs of love they'd be and a comfort too
To all who'd find me worth listening to.
Melodies immortal the same as me
Forever in the book named history.
the older we are
the more invisible by far
we seem to the younger mind
but soon they will see
what’s known by you and me
we’re only immortal for a limited time
Immortality
Thinking of all those nights
When we sang songs and shared dreams
Believing each of our life’s tunnels glimmered lights
Caresses me with uni-verse’s dazzling beams.
I have not lost it all since you were gone
I feel you in the communion of the galaxies
I know it’s not all foregone
Somewhere, somewhere you live in my soul’s palaces.
I’ll not mourn your departure no longer.
For in my recesses I know the truth of your living.
Extinction has swallowed itself in hunger.
Whole truth must I hold; I am believing.
Be at peace; do not hurt.
Smile some warmth on my winter days.
Unfetter the resounding pounding of your heart.
Echo your palate’s rhythm with cosmic rays.
With you there are no more ‘hellos’ and ‘goodbyes’.
Never would anyone say ‘I hate to see you go’
Nor ‘but I love to watch you leave’ lies.
You have embodied love immortal.
Know this that even in the darkest of moments,
We believe it will shine.
You and I through life’s torrents
Shall keep singing.
Copyright © Nsamu Moonga 2012
This wise old bulk twined and furled self mended throughout
She shows me her bark churning scars inside out
Sage sentry her silver green cascade caressing the blue
I plop on her half felled limb to pick gum from my shoe
Broken some storm ago during her long century stance
Her arm does make a most perfect perch to romance and glance
The old city hall by the falls where our two rivers meet
She whispers to me it's her insurance this seat
Long since the violent heave thrust back into earth I see
She has curled again skyward to emerge gold a new tree
17.09.17
Composed for Kim Rodrigues
"Personification Of Plant" Contest
IMMORTALITY
When you look into your daughter’s brown eyes
And see the eyes of your own mother long gone
But still smiling there, and understand that she
Too will hear something of you in her own son’s sighs;
When you pass a bearded hobo in a thunderstorm
Standing on the bridge and in a flash you see that the world
Is filled with such people, and that Christ himself
Also stood like that on the road to Jerusalem;
When you hear a nightingale and marvel as you realize
That all nightingales have sung the same song
From time immemorial;
Or see a butterfly and admire its colors in surprise
As Roman soldiers did before battle for Rome’s fame;
And know that your daughter’s daughter will chase
Almost the same butterfly around some
Future garden of perennials, almost the same;
When time ceases to have meaning for you
Because you realize instinctively that you see and feel
All the same experiences people have always felt :
Then, with the universe you become one and true -
And you live forever.
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(Theme = Cosmic Consciousness)
Written By Sydney Peck
Entered in Debbie Guzzi’s Contest DeLIGHT, Good Vibrations
Eternal, alive like the sun
Caressing dreams
With whispers of hope
The silence of abundant promise
Raining down showers, songs
Grace penetrating the ones
Who know immortality
Unending love, breathed out
From the caress of cool,
Clear waters roaring, liquid
Pools of inspiration, soothing
Calming aching spirits
Those who grieve for the death
Which can never come
As the soul wishes to disappear
Undone by the echoes
Shadows of a love gone, long gone
In solitude, silence sighs
Deepening the desire
For a end to the dream
Fading into the shadows
Wishing, wistfully,
For the time when this
Brooding flower
Love lost, so long now
Faded into the secret
Place of death, decay
Demise so real it never fades
Yet, eternally, in undying
Unforgettable memory
There is the echo of its yearning
Singing into awaiting ears
We will live on, forever,
Even though the love of life
Has been gone for so long
Dead yet never dying
Always screaming in silence
Lingering on the solitude
Singing to the soul in blue
Worn, dull and pale
Diminished by the thoughts
Which dread immortality
Life’s echo in hell
April 23, 2022