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The Good Die Young
December Twenty Seventh 
Of Two thousand and Nine
Is the night I lost my brother
A Best friend of mine

The night two paths were chosen
One for him...

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Categories: only the good die young, brother, death, loss, sadfriend,
Form: I do not know?



The Good Die Young Continued
Drunk and hung over
I began making this awkward ride
I began to make conversation and joke
About how drunk I was the past night 

But a smile...

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Categories: only the good die young, brother, death, loss, sad
Form: I do not know?
Only the Good Die Young Dark Limerick
Even though "Only the good die young"
A very well known song that's sung
But should it be said
Means less in the head
They wanted death before off...

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Categories: only the good die young, dark, death,
Form: Limerick
Good Die Young
Only the good die young
As the saying goes
What is God trying to prove
As the destruction of one small town grows
Month after month another gets taken
Can’t...

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Categories: only the good die young, absence, car, death, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
Why Do the Good Die Young
Dear God Why do only the good die young
So soon before there  life even begins
Is it meant to be or isn’t it?
I don’t understand...

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Categories: only the good die young, hope
Form: Enclosed Rhyme



Premium Member Only the Good Die Young
yes indeed life is not fair
why would the end be any different

we lose the people we love most
it breaks our heart and
shatters it in a...

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Categories: only the good die young, death, faith, grief, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member How Many Heroes Now Have Gone Unsung
It’s said that only the good die young.
So many souls with hearts of gold we’ve lost!
How many heroes now have gone unsung?

They’re taken with no...

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Categories: only the good die young, death,
Form: Terzanelle
Broken Back
Broken Back

They use words like
Cold
And 
Crossing
Sighs
To describe something romanticised
 
Obscured verbs
In which to hide
To hide
Romanticised
The suffering
Without a name

It asks you not to worry
A vacant voice
Verbalised
Tears
She...

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Categories: only the good die young, lifewords,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dear Dale, So Loved
Dear Dale, so loved were you
that even now, thirty-nine years later,
you live inside the dreams
of your siblings. I suppose this to be true
since I, at...

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Categories: only the good die young, brother,
Form: Free verse
Why
Why?! Sometimes I ask why. I mean why?
Does the good die young, I mean why? 
Does the world make it so hard for single mothers...

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Categories: only the good die young, anger, community, god, jesus,
Form: Alliteration
Remembered Joy
It’s been 3 long years now since you had to go
But I know you can hear me when I say my love for you is...

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Categories: only the good die young, music, romance, me, heart,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Next Level
This waiting to get a year
older is not fun anymore ..
not worth the party
nor the cake
cannot dance long
looking  disheveled
i'd like to go to 
the...

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Categories: only the good die young, analogy, conflict, journey,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Baby Face Nelson
1908-1934  Not taken soon enough! Not only the good die young.

For Epigram Contest
By: Richard Lamoureux...

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Categories: only the good die young, funeral, funny,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member The Evolution of Music
Billy Joel's stories were top notch
Always enjoyed his music very much
He claimed only the good die young
So what have you been up to my old...

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Categories: only the good die young, humorous, music,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Wind Drift
Saturday flings
Sensorial pleasures;
Refreshing rain

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A gift of somnolence
Moments on a breeze;
Drowsy airy feel

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Beyond these silk curtains
An uncertain world;
Looking not seeing

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Daughter's simple hair braids
Charming sight to see;
Wavy...

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Categories: only the good die young, change,
Form: Haiku

Book: Reflection on the Important Things