Best Laments Poems

I hear the voices you once bequeathed to me
Enchanting concert music in symphony of love
But I left the theater before the show was over
Walking all alone in the missteps of contempt,
Endorsing the reticence of unspoken words.

Deep in my psyche these memories now reside
Where devoid of...

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"Lucifer's Laments"
By M. Taha Effendi

(Dramatic Monologue)

Do You not see, Almighty God,
How Your order man defied?
So base, so vile, so gravely flawed,
Yet so consumed by pride!

He broke all sacred codes though warned,
He dared to pay no heed,
He mocked Your words, Your gifts he 
scorned,
He breached what...

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I looked in the mirror and all I could see was the pain of loss,
draped in jet-black dress with a veil of gloom on my face.
I tried to smile hard but all I could see was a forced on gloss
dabbed on my lips to hide...

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(A true story)

Now i grow older, and beauteous memories turn to weeds,
this blood in my veins turn to water, like a river cold desolute
in the valley bleeds. Yet still on the hill rise i see
"Aunt Mary" Her hair more golden by the day, when my...

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Once heard about 
those birds and the bees
and their exploits of pollination,
amidst the flowers the trees.
Now I knew
why we had a beautiful garden
when every morning
through the dew,
my mother would trudge and take in
the scent of the Roses,
my father never too far behind.
Once when inquiring where...

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For more than a year I've lain stiff and quiet upon the hospital bed,
Bandaged and bundled and waited on like an unruly infant,
Finally allowed to get a drink myself when I'm dry and try to feed myself.
The catheter is removed and once again I must...

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Lamenting love rest upon my humble heart,
May thy candle burn quickly before thy night…
Loves lament lies lingering from far apart,

For the slings and arrows deploy and depart,
Solitary stars sacrificed amidst dying light…
Lamenting love rest upon my humble heart,

A broken hearts graveyard a calamitous compart,
Release my...

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In the garbage lilies may bloom
Yet in its odor will always loom
Faint traces of its abused past
Wounds may fade but traces last

Had heaven pity on this fool
And struck her down dead where she lay
That she did not see another day
Mourned in loss and wasted away

If...

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LAMENTS OF THE OLD

that poor, painful cry
“i’ve fallen and can’t get up!”
hope god will hear you

this is my sickness –
i want to sleep all the time
my kitty don’t mind

i will surely die
forgot to take prescriptions
it’s part of old age

the house is a mess
my wife saves...

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I have a case to register with Chief Judge
the one who wrote me and asked me to teach
this hard-nut generation of humans 
They hear but not understand, look but not see

They come to me for wisdom and insight
I teach them today but tomorrow
they are as...

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(A True Story)

Now I grow older, and beauteous memories turn to weeds, this blood in my veins turn to water, like the shivering river cold desolate in the valley bleeds. 
Yet still on the hill rise I see 'Aunt Mary' her hair more golden by...

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Poet's Blessings and Laments

Ye with the many empty baskets , save a few for me
Tho' word weary this pen can still shake a tree.
Weave ém with diligence and your greatest care
For we that need writing, will always race to be there.

Hold out the bright gold...

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Are life’s laments to stay like set cement?
Or drift away, like any passing day?
How can I be sure how much to endure?
Before I let it go, and let the future flow?

With a silent moment’s thought of things taught
A calming peace is caught, only if it’s...

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I

~   He died in my arms -

             life flowing out with His blood ...

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My heart aches sorrowed
                                       Over the death...

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