Best Survives Poems

The On Who Survives Contest
Sponsor:  Sara Kendrick
 
Goodbye...
   couldn't save her
    live to tell her story
    I'm a suicide survivor
       miss her...

~Date Written: February 5, 2016~

*** I call myself a...

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post-crash
			      four funerals
		   not my fault, mourners say
	           paralyzed by survivor's guilt
			       what now?...

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Love is being there for them every day.
A disappointed love taken away.
Cupid’s aim is higher than we believe.
We search for the one who will never leave.

Love is kind when our mundane tasks are done.
Love can be laughter, joy, and gobs of fun.
God gives us empathetic...

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Siblings
                                      growing older
     ...

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Cancer -
Skilled surgery
Eradicated you
I’m getting on living my life  …
You died!


Contest: The one who Survives
Sponsor Sara Kendrick
Checked using how many syllables 2,4,6,8,2
02 ~05 ~16...

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One Who Survives

Beer cans
rattle empty
across wet yellow lines.
Smoking metal…junkyard ready:
Three dead....

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Suzanne

Slipped on the ice

And she died instantly

I stood frozen, a survivor

Age six

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February 8, 2016


Poetry/Cinquain/The One Who Survives
Copyright Protected, ID 16- 754-484-0
All Rights Reserved.  Written under Pseudonym.

Written for the contest, The One Who Survives
sponsor, Sara Kendrik

Fourth Place...

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Prejudice learned now 
encapsulates willing souls 
only hate survives...

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Does love really exist , or is it only in a place where a million stars remain in a place where pain can't remain . In vain men strive for greater and noble pursuits without prevail . If this life is prolonged by reasons unknown...

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Ten men
War clouds roll in
Bullets rain, fight the storm
Eighteen hands now crossed, under flags
Folded


February 6, 2016
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he waits
nonchalantly
drumming his long fingers
impatiently......he waits in vain
plane down


Penned 8/2/2016...

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Another boring, Protestant Traditional, Sunday Family Dinner 1:00 pm sharp
This week it’s at Uncle David’s  house in Alford, Mass. I haven’t meant Him
Actually the only Family I met so far “Momma“, Poppa, and Big Sister Brenda 
YOU probably thought I was going to say...

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I hadn’t seen a house for an hour ; talking to a social worker, is pretty short
I’m off to a new Foster home; the Courtermarshe’s, a new Big Sister; Brenda
How much longer, Mr. Hodges I have to pee, so do I ; Behind a Mighty...

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Are you strong, young man? Can you help me keep this Farm going?
Do you fear hard work? Calluses on your fingers and hands “tough Love”
You will be a great man, you follow my directions , People watch You growing
You can have  “ A Real...

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I will always love you,
coz i was made for loving you,
Even if i spend the whole day with you, 
i miss you the second you leave..


when i am with u i feel paradise,
n i am looking forward to meet u again,
i scream loud your name,
coz...

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