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Premium Member Pushing Up Daisies
Today is the first day of the rest of your life
Bloody brilliant I say, life is a slice
Beats the alternative
That's an affirmative
Pushing up daisies really sucks that's my advice


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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Categories: pushing up daisies, life,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Pushing Up Daisies
Today is the first day of the rest of my life
Bloody brilliant I say, life is a slice
Beats the alternative
That's an affirmative
Pushing up daisies really sucks that's my advice...

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Categories: pushing up daisies, anxiety,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Pushing Up Daisies
my mom’s not pushing up daisies
having gone to her eternal rest in Spring
her restful place is where her soul has gone
back to earth with its raindrop-moss
(springy, as if for a tiny bunny
or hallucination-size “wabbit”)
off track, the violet urn
next to the frame
that holds my mother’s face
and...

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Categories: pushing up daisies, death,
Form: Free verse

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Premium Member Pushing Up Daisies
So this is where I'm bound to sleep 

Just three feet wide and six feet deep

No shirt, no shoes, or even sox

Only me in my little box

So grab a shovel, lend a hand

And bury me in desert sand

I know that it's a boring job

Guess I...

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Categories: pushing up daisies, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Pushing Dead Daisies

The skin remembers, even when the mind tries to forget
Scars etched deeper than bone, a roadmap of agony
They say time heals all wounds, they lie
Time only buries them deeper under the layer of lies
I used to feel joy and sorrow, life danced with empathy
Now? A...

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Categories: pushing up daisies, dark, death, deep, life,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things