Best Outlives Poems
What Remains, When Love Outlives the Living
Under the cadence of footsteps on worn cobblestones,
At the café where steaming cups held time hostage,
Eyes met and lingered, a glance stretched into an eternity.
A young American, as if sculpted from sunshine itself,
And she, like the Rhine’s melody upon misted mornings,
Beauty unspoken, unmeasured—fate had smiled.
It...
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Categories:
outlives, culture, emotions, heartbreak, imagery,
Form:
Narrative
Though Time Outlives This Mortal FrameWhen time escapes the confines of my mind,
This sullied birdcage (though touchstone),
I stretched to breakpoint on some days,
(Confining yes, but not outgrown).
Will I remember earthly realm,
My animus to pain be blind,
Accept my homeless overwhelm,
Will Rose exist to call my own?
May Rainbow Promiser amaze,
Creation's clock surrender...
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Categories:
outlives, faith,
Form:
Rhyme