Best Laid To Rest Poems

Tears no longer come, 
dried ducts of wrung emotion,
denied one more drop of release.

... but only to feel

Feel your finite presence beside me,
inhaling your sweet scent to memory.

Feel your heart pulsate through the calfskin
of the despair that seals me in its snare.

Rhythms of a hopeless...

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Tears no longer come, 
dried ducts of wrung emotion,
denied one more drop of release.

... but only to feel

Feel your finite presence beside me,
inhaling your sweet scent to memory.

Feel your heart pulsate through the calfskin
of the despair that seals me in its snare.

Rhythms of a hopeless...

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I had yearned for it all my life
That simple gesture
That finally healed
The open wound
That for years
Bled 
In a silent stream
That fell Between
The cracks in
You and me
When with a gentle sigh
You looked 
Into my eyes
Held my hand
And kissed my fingertips
The day
Before you died...

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Today I saw a daughter laid to rest.
A mother tries to heed her own advice.
Holding it in surely put her to the test.
She failed more than once or twice.
Her failing was no artificial device.
She tried, Lord how hard she tried.
She simply could not pay the...

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The distant sound of foot fall as
I trod a barren land
Diminished to an echo near my heart

My "patience" through the years has
Brought me to a still born stand
Encompassed by the fears of a new start

Grieve I for the life I've lost
Forever laid to rest
My emptiness...

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My heart lies cold and lifeless
And not beating in my chest
Your cold and hateful words 
Has laid my tender heart to rest

I had loved you for so long 
Waiting for your loving touch
Not caring the days gone by
Not worried overly much

But the days turned into...

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Defining moments when it doesn't feel like you're you
You make a choice because there's nothing else you can do
At the time, it seems the best of the bad solutions
In your head comes all this thought pollution
Did you do the right thing?
Must take care of myself,
Respect...

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From the last moments of you life, 
Til you were laid to rest.
I know that in my heart, 
you always done your best.

 You always showed me love, 
And caring from the heart.
I knew you were the one, 
from the very start.

 Your love was...

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If our life is predestined and our fate preordained
Why stress and strain, why live a life of drudgery
Oh, why toil in vain, why to the grindstone be chained,
Let's indulge in a life of slothful luxury.



~Contest: Sin of Sloth
~Sponsor: Margarita Lillico....

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Miss Whiplash died, sadly gone forever
Was laid to rest in chains and leather....

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I can't be that happy heart
as others see me, my moods I conceal;
I hide everything that hurts,
cover it with shameless pretense 
and yet it's accepted by me.
This youth was short-lived, 
a hundred days seemed only one day,
brief loves consumed in daffodils fields
lasted a season, then...

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in a gathering full of strangers friends and family
 alliances are seldom celebrated 
as lay minister stands over your casket 
preaching your eulogy
 telling your story
 telling of your life and of your future Glory
Verbally celebrating your life
Not reassuring the gathering of your reuniting with...

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My heart was ripped from my chest the day I saw her laid to rest.
We were family, we made a pact.
But those dreams were split in half the day i saw her all in black.
I've lost all felling in my life. 
from this day forward,...

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I sit at the ivy gates
Waiting to say goodbye
I should be sad 
Filled with hate 
It's not sarrow
But joy inside
Though all this sadness
Breaks my heart
You no longer bare the pain
The world will weep in your absence
It will no longer be the same

R.K.H...

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This grave with barber Bob is blessed ~
He was a cut above the rest!


30.01.19

'Pithy pants poetry contest'
Sponsored by: Maureen McGreavy...

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