Best One By One Poems

Days Work is Done,
They See the Rising Sun,
No Doubt more trials are sure to come,
And together they'll tackle them one by one....

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she removes
her heart
her mind
then flesh
now I'm naked...

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While the bodies are piling one by one.
Mother is scared, but calm.
Now look at what they've done.

Father is hurt, but they think they won
Mother makes me hold her palm,
While the bodies are piling one by one.

My family is weak and they are done.
Killing people like...

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One by One…

Concrete words cement my fears, one by one commit to line
Carved in stone all through the years
A labor of love and time
A lesson to learn that nothing good will come
To those who cannot wait 
A patient man whose concrete words
Serve to document his...

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Here she comes Mama Kitty carrying her
Proud load tightly but ever so gentle in her
mouth she hops on the fence over she comes
down on the other side and right to The Keeper.

She lays the kitten at Keepers feet and off she
goes up and over quicker...

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Just for a while, each soul wears smiles,
Then in due style, file past end mile.


Yes one by one, each leaves abrupt,
No more to pun, death does disrupt.


Time catches each, in quick charade,
Space cannot reach, end of life fades.


Be aware then, yes see the truth,
You know...

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One By One

Sadness has fallen

Darkness has come

Many young lives now gone.

All families in pain

When will the addictions end. 

It steals our loved ones

Taking them to places they have never been

…We lose them...One By One…

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For my father who sleeps
with all the veterans of
WWI..every one now gone.


Piper pipe a song for me,
And for ev'ry soul now free;
Brothers all who heard the call,
One by one each one did fall.

Fall no more good soldier's dead
On this hallowed ground soaked red;
Hear their mothers...

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One By One

What if you died today?
What would you do?
Where would you go?
What would you say?
Who would be waiting for you?
Would you even know?

Ask yourself each question.
One by one.
It's okay not to know the answer.
Even ignorance matters.
Bliss flatters.
Balancing the brink,
the other side may not be...

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One by one
my poetry has to get transferred,
from my IPod, to my laptop
I have to type out every word.

Although, it's a long process
my poetry won't be lost,
it gets posted on the internet
for me, there is no cost.

I'll have to get it backed up
get it put...

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one by one by
one the crimson
autumn leaves
by one by one
leave trees
as you have gone
past here
beyond eternity
too far I fear
where you are
while I am here:
those who go
suffer those
left here--
I cry weep
with remorse
for not loving
so much more
of you
my last kiss
on cold lips--
farewell, farewell
precious love,
farewell...

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Piper pipe a dirge for me 
And for ev'ry soul set free; 
Brothers all who heard the call, 
One by one each one would fall. 

Fall no more good soldiers wed 
To this hallowed ground soaked red. 
Hear poor mothers wail and weep 
For their...

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One by one
As life did stop;
Her months were done,
And now she's atop.
With all her fun.

One month at a time,
She slowly vanished;
With each small chime,
From life was banished.
Such a wall to climb.

Her life is done,
From dusk to dawn;
One by one,
And now she's gone.
Up, and past the...

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they come thru
one by one
for their treatment
putting on airs
of courage and
determination

they file thru
one by one
the nurses dedicated
bringing cheer
with compassion
sensitive and caring

their smile
a burst
of fresh air



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Submitted on February 4, 2020 for contest STRAND SELECT D sponsored by BRIAN STRAND  -  Honorable...

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its stalks the best of us
picks off the rest of us
one by one 
we fall by the way

Some of us run from it
some embrace the thing
but one by one
we fall day by day

there are those that fear it
and those that seek for it
and one by...

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