Best Requiescat Poems

Requiescat in Pace 
Written: by Tom Wright
February 2015

At the outset,
Tears start like dew from a tender leaf,
Then transcend into a torrent;

A mind is a library of thoughts,
Neatly categorized,
Until this contrary wind blew;

Rummaging through past thoughts,
Has left me feeling careworn,
Without experience or wisdom;

As I drift betwixt...

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Sweet summer winds, hear me
Ne’er endure this bewailing daybreak
For where whether not daylight rises
Now silenced eternal under prettified blossoms
Sleeps that sweet beauty that defined me.
Under the dimly faded blanket of Gaia 
In the blanched obsidian void of memory
Her slowly fading voice of once yesterdays
Never again...

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Long Rest

(Contest entry)
(Requiescat by Briton Rivière)

Oh master why's your rest so long
     Command and I'll obey
You lay there post your victory
     And at your side I'll stay

I seen them lift you from the field
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If I knew it was gonna be this 
way
I would've never invested
The time and money spent
On the girl I thought I loved 
but I truly resented
We say we learned but I really 
just grew 
I remained the same man I was
Changed for the better
But the...

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The province of delayed gratification
Poetry is dead.

There is now no appetite for deep reflection
In this far from limpid pool.
Abhorrent is meditation
To  the present lords of all misrule.
Carpe diem once was for the nonce
Its writ now runs for aye.

Omnivorous science depredates
The very bones of our...

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Requiescat In Pacem

when I leave this world
look not for me under the dried ground
but look up and see me beneath the skies

when I pass from this realm
weep not for my absence from your crowd
but feel my presence in the gentle wind

find solace in my words,...

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Requiescat for Joe D
Written: by Tom Wright
4/21/2018

Though he lies reposed somewhere in a Texas field, 
The anxiety, and hurt he tendered, can’t be concealed.
He made no effort to link with family or to appease,
Now his scattered cremains obey each Texas breeze.

For thirty years his whereabouts...

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