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Best Keening Poems


The Keening
The Keening

Disconsolate depressions on the valley floor of green
With bodies bent and keening, young girls and their kind
Take to the dead fields down, to fall upon their knees
Scattered, sickly tombstones, laid flat on mud and grass
Hearts broken on the sorrow, nothing more
War leaves desolation in...

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Categories: keening, bereavement, conflict, cry, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Hear Wailing Screaming Keening
deep in the back of a forty acre plot of land
there is a house most cannot abide 
many have heard the rumors and still cannot find it
I hear wailing screaming keening shrieks
from the house of the dead
being clairaudient has its drawbacks 
when you add clairsentient...

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Categories: keening, scary,
Form: Free verse

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