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Best Six Feet Under Poems

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Voice of God
Why are you so sad ?, Have you lost anything ??
If lost, then what ??? I think it is nothing.....
You stepped earth with your empty...

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Categories: six feet under, god, mythology,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member She Lived In the Moment
Six feet tall, feisty and tipping the scales
Aunt Eva approached life so playfully
Living in the moment, not fretting details

Even at 80 no harsh wrinkles had...

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Categories: six feet under, family,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Disorientation
Somethings are best 
said through blank
scriptures in sheer 
silence, but pulling the 
violin strings of
a poet strumming
to personify pain, 
with tempests of 
torment rushing 
through...

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Categories: six feet under, angst, emotions, gothic, jealousy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Song Of Demise
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
I think I made you up inside my...

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Categories: six feet under, angst, dark, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Follow the Bouncing Ball
She dresses the land down
in a virginal bridal gown 
a masterfully cut and sewn chenille 
shines brightly with a fine crystal appeal

Her assistants work quite diligently
to add special...

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Categories: six feet under, cheer up, , cute,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Ballad of Prospector Pete
Prospector Pete had roamed the hills fer years searchin' fer gold!
He and his faithful burro, Fred, were both growin' weary and old.
He'd looked fer color...

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Categories: six feet under, funny,
Form: Ballad
The Wall
I never saw your writing

against the silent wall

I never heard  those footsteps

walking to the door

Like a sunset shadow

you faded in my dusk

Left upon my...

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Categories: six feet under, for him,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Burnt Aqua
"Burnt Aqua"



I can taste the sun
on my tongue
it spills down 
my throat
like burnt aqua
healing the beating frisson

I am ebony inside
shading in my shadow world
some somnolent...

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Categories: six feet under, death, dream, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Old Fashioned Christmas
It’ll be an old fashioned Christmas,
with Santa due down the chute.
I bet he Purells his reindeer, 
and Lysols his hazmat suit.

It’s an old fashioned Christmas.
We’ll...

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Categories: six feet under, 11th grade, care, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In Twenty Years I Might Be a Tree
I Might Be a Tree

In twenty years I pray I won't be gone
placed six feet beneath a manicured lawn
I'd much prefer to give old death...

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Categories: six feet under, death, life,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Fly
NOTE: Some of you seemed to enjoy my stories from the past. Of course, posting this in the story folder is tantamount to burying it...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: six feet under, angst, humor,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Social Distancing During a Pandemic Or Get Behind the Orange Line
No I'm not kidding , believe what I say.
Step behind the orange line and behind it you stay.
Yes, I'll scan your items from six feet...

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Categories: six feet under, stress, work,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Would You Like To Meter
Today I feel iambic! I would say
of all the meters, I like it the best.
An iamb starts with some soft sound to say
then ev'ry second...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: six feet under, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Little Man Grown







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Categories: six feet under, baseball, boy, grandmother, grandson,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member An Old Shovel
In 1890, cowboy Bob Womack found gold at the base of lofty Pikes Peak!
In short order a ramshackle town was founded called Cripple Creek.
Hordes of...

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Categories: six feet under, fate, humorous, mountains,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs