Best Life Or Death Poems
Life's pieces fit together, one by one.
Inserting them is challenging and fun,
For each shape adds to making of the whole;
Eventual completion is the goal.
Just like a puzzle, each piece falls in place.
Before our death, we must complete the race.
So many times, confront an empty space;
the hunt for proper shape we must embrace.
Our puzzle should be filled before life's pace
is done, for empty spots would then erase
the chance to bring completed goal to grace
that day we meet our Maker face to face.
Death dances dauntingly detecting done
ahead at bend that leads to our life's end,
when at that hour we meet the Lord with our
life's pieces fit together, one by one.
Sandra M. Haight
~3rd Place~
Contest: 4 x 4 Word Pairing Master Rhyme
Sponsor: Silent One
Theme Chosen: Life Or Death
Judged: 02/11/2016
FIRST STANZA
Acrostic with rhyme scheme: aabb.
The first line in this stanza will be the last line in the 4th stanza.
SECOND STANZA AND THIRD STANZA
Mono rhymes - all the rhymes have to be the same. aaaa aaaa
FORTH STANZA
First line is alliteration and must rhyme with the fourth line: aa
Second and third line internal rhyme. bb bb (two rhymes per line)
Fourth line is the same as first line in the first stanza
There are no meter requirements in this contest.
However, I have used Iambic Pentameter
Living spares no time for goodbyes, pray save them for the dead...
Life or Death One Liner Contest
Sponsored by Silent One
10/13/2016
Light pushes up against my guarded window
attempting to uncloak what lies untouched
warm amongst the darkness, the silence, the unknown
life of the living, the giving, but still alone
Where are you as my insides burn?
When I am here pushing but for what?
Death calls with a chance of revival
A saving grace from a failed suvival
No more replays of the same mistake
Searching for something I cannot shake
Take me now,
for life has spit me out
Take me now,
death come hear my shout
You start with nothing, eveything to be gained.' And so the journey begins..
Choices are some of the heaviest loads you will encounter alomg the way,
Bad choices, are the heaviest loads of all, these ones you can never put down'
And so you carry on getting richer, or poorer; what can the onlooker tell?
For they have their view, you have fame glam you have it made that's it to them,
They don't see the doubt, the compromises made in turning from early values'
The pressure to preform;becomes your norm, as an awful day begins its dawn
Rich in goods and low in spirit, 'friends' don't care as long as you are kept 'in it'
Long nights of glitz, days on the road; you need more space for the growing loads'
Eyes that burn with unshed tears, popping pills and snorting; don't quell the fears
Then there's a time when the dark one shows, he shadows your trail come or go
He sometime uses others eyes, when they look at 'you' he's there inside'
Its de ja vue, you know the score' you want out bad yet your'e soul's bit sore
He want's to take you to darker roads, lit by the perverted lights of evils glow
Let rage and anger surge inside, an excuse to cause hurt; and feed your pride'
Despair's a part, it lies in wait; when you see its face it will be too late'
There's a creeping lurking hideous thing. masquerading as your reality
Its name is sin' there's only one who really cares. He faced the cross & that
Same cold stare.. Its up to you; you know its true,
despite the fog in your mind And the day that's through' He can take the loads that you don't even own
Also all the things in your soul that's been sown, to cast them into the endless sea, so you can become rich with His Love that's free.'
Saved by the skill of the surgeon’s knife
All we prayed is that he spared your life
Fortunately the cancer has been removed
Every faith in the surgeon has been proved
Cancer is a scourge across our nation
Most cancers are caused by gene mutation
We face this disease with fear and trepidation
Yet new research brings great innovation
Your cure is a source of inspiration
We celebrate our lives with jubilation
Every day on earth is a celebration
Our death will lead us to our salvation
Angels are awaiting all ascending to the afterlife
Whilst I remain on earth this day, I hope and pray
Your good health will stay, with the cancer cut away -
Saved by the skill of the surgeon’s knife
Contest:4x4 word pairing master rhyme
Sponsor: Silent One
02~10~16
Standing tall in heaven, beyond the walls of eternity;
Up placement to a new realm of a physical reality;
Rebirthed to life to live on this stone, made of earth;
Statue of premise promised to envelop;
Rebirthed now an embryo;
Curled up laying there with my eyes closed;
Heat, beating lungs, breathing;
Blood flowing through my veins;
Come out of my mother's womb (room);
Cut the cord out of the sack;
No longer knowing where I am at;
Eyes still closed don't wanna see what I look like;
But if you look at me the difference between;
I'm alive breathing in air heart beating I'm not dead;
Now older matured a teen, an adult;
Laying in the bed, eyes are closed;
(wide open-shut?)
Laying there horizontal;
How do you know I'm not dead;
Lived a long life been in and out;
Had ups and downs, never to sickly always had crumbs;
Didn't have to worry, bout' nothing;
Always had at lease something's;
Now I've released the spirit of the ghost;
Seems I didn't have a choice, Gone on in;
You see me now laid out in a new suit in a coffin;
You don't know where I am going;
But I tell you one thing here I lay, there;
Lungs not breathing, blood not flowing through my veins;
Well eyes still shut you said you loved me but,
Now I think now I'm dead
This is mankind's, life or death eternity;
Written by James Edward Lee July 6 2015(c)
( For 2015 book UNO's Poetry to Bridge Generations
University of Nebraska at Omaha )
As long as I can remember,which is about 40yrs,
I have always felt different.I have a different
outlook on how life should be.People think that
I use my mental illness as an excuse for the things
I do or how I think.I can only wish it was an excuse.
I will do anything to not have to live like I do now.
Anything includes leaving the physical world to
search for final peace,what ever that might be.I
have yet to find anything I enjoy or makes me
happy.I have lost a lot of important people that
I needed to succeed.I have lost my way and unsure
if I can find my way back.I don't trust anyone including
myself.I don't know how to express myself in the right
way so I don't get the help I need.Suicide is in my
thoughts daily.At times it consumes me.It has become
the poems I write,the music I listen to,the paper's I
read.It's everywhere.I am having dreams about driving
off a cliff only to awake just before.I don't feel like my
life is meant to be.Every road I follow leads me to a dead
end.I am only a burden.I love my kids and grandchildren
but feel I am holding them back.I do know how it feels
to lose your parents but if I stay around it will make it
harder for everyday life.It's not fair to anyone to go
through everyday being miserable.We all die someday.
I think it would be unique to die on your birthday.Mine
is coming up.I know that no one will believe it was an
accident and I am sorry.I know deep in my heart it is
better this way.Everyone tells me they just want me to
be happy.I can't seem to find happiness here.
Now I must make a final decision,
Life or Death.
May 16,2013
I killed a rattlesnake Toby was barking at .
10-12-2016
true story
I was 35 on a camping trip with friends. Toby belonged to my friend Lavonia. After the incident was over she said, ”I thought you were afraid of snakes.”
Contest; Life or Death
Sponsored by Silent One
Slow the barrel tumbles, with a heavy hand I feel the trigger and my heart click.
We were born to die
Before life, we were in existence
We shall be in existence
Death doesn't take that away
It only kills the physical form
We left spiritually, with our soul
keep it at heart
For we don't belong to anything or anyone
We were created by a Supreme Being
And Him only will I give thanks to
Before my rest,take me the way
You brought me
Before my time, let me live
The life You gave me
I show gratitude to You for my life
And appreciation as I take a bow and rest
I sit here pondering my death.
As I look upon the remnants of my tattered remains for signs of my so called life, I come to the conclusion that to do this, I must first accept the fact that I even had a life.
But how can one have lived without the rhythmic beating of a heart, or the spiritual foundation of a soul to support ones wants and desires, or the will that encourages the thoughts and dreams of existence.
How could the emptiness that was inside me have housed such a wonder?
How is it possible the weakness I felt could ever have held such a power within?
Is it possible I had reached the pinnacle of my suffering and committed emotional suicide?
Is it possible my demise was due to the ravenous wants and needs of man, disguised as passion and love which lured me into my willingness to give all that I had so freely, to satisfy a gluttonous appetite that consumed everything in its path including the memory of who and what I was?
But to acknowledge this would be to admit I gave my precious gift of life in exchange for a lie wrapped in the promise of everlasting happiness and love.
I sit here and ponder my death but I do not mourn.
For I have only lost the vessel which held my true spirit, the one which now looks for the light and the chance to be reborn.
A new being of strength and wisdom who realizes the mistake made in that other form, but will now hold dear all that is to come and all that will be.
Silently, in a potter's field
Obsequious souls do yield
Unfettered from mortal pain
Lamenting to darkness in vain
Life in the physical sense
An existence with recompense
With a facade of vain pretense
Upon judgement the debt will commence
We are all far from perfection
Requiring daily reverent reflection
The conscience is the souls detection
Of our sinful insurrection
Death is simply life repealed
The wages we reap of sin are steep
Prepare as sheep for soon you'll sleep
Silently, in a potter's field
Feb 3-2016 by Daniel Turner
Life Or Death
In my immaturity humiliations embarrassed me to death, yet I yearned to live.
October 23, 2016
For Laura Loo
Second Place- Contest 3
( Submitted and judged on October 14, 2016
Life Or Death)
If you would keep death at bay, celebrate your life each day.
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Bloom in life until your last day, entering shadows of death without angst.
For Life Or Death One Liner Contest
Sponsored by Silent One
Second Place
October 13, 2016