What Matters
...When they ask: the answer is, I want to be cremated
Smoke the man from yesterday that occasionally crumbles into tomorrow
Let the wind carry the residue of inspiration until it ashes back to God
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Categories:
cremated, anxiety, art, jesus, joy,
Form: Rhyme
9 DEAD BODIES BURNED ALIVE BY GARGANO LAYING IN THE HALLS
...THE BODIES REMAINED IN THE HALLS DUE TO THE SMALL EXAM ROOMS NO DOCTOR COULD WORK IN SUCH A SMALL SPACE NO DOCTOR WOULD SQUEEZE A CROWD INTO A TINY ROOM IT WOULDN'T HAPPEN CIRO GARGANO DECIDED TO SLA...
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Categories:
cremated, allah,
Form: Naat
Death in the New Year
...Our hands are tied, Death
Since you dawned on us this New Year . . .
Shapely bottles of champagnes have shone
And have broken to fragments with the ululation
Of firecrackers that warmed cold an...
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Categories:
cremated, death, sorrow,
Form: Elegy
Though an atheist
...Though an atheist..
please oh lord brace and fix me with monetary salvation
After umpteen times being swindled
reducing me to abject poverty
psyche of mine
broke into a bajillion little pieces...
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Categories:
cremated, absence, abuse, analogy, angel,
Form: Free verse
as we metamorphose
...as we metamorphose
sponsor : Unseeking
Seeker
submitted : 11/6/25
two points of a straight line
birth and death that need to
lightly kiss, after plunging depths
dissolve ...
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Categories:
cremated, allusion, change, character, creation,
Form: Free verse
Alone in the Cemetery
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"...Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. [7] Then shall the dust return to the earth...
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Categories:
cremated, bible, child, dad, death,
Form: Rhyme
Along With The Thunder
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Along with the Thunder
came Tempestas, goddess of storms
turtle doves scattered on
corrugated roof, grey feathers flying when glimpsing her fierce amber countenance
this is time of rattlin...
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Categories:
cremated, allegory, cat, character, color,
Form: Free verse
Memorial Day 2025
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Memorial Day 2025
Soon Memorial day will be upon us once more,
And unhappy memories of the past will be excavated again.
My younger Brother was a highly decorated soldier
rising to th...
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Categories:
cremated, memorial day, soldier, war,
Form: Narrative
Yellow Lights
...Toxic, intoxicating solitude,
With a tantalizing proclivity
To slither inch by inch, or suddenly,
Back into suffocating loneliness
When will I again see my own person
Reflected back at me fro...
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Categories:
cremated, anxiety, depression, mental health,
Form: Free verse
Ashes
...Let us start at the end because that is where it all began
Ashes
I clinched my fist because I did not want to let go
I literally watched you slip through my fingers
I cursed the day
The day I lo...
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Categories:
cremated, absence, bereavement, death, depression,
Form: Free verse
The Book of Souls
...This heart~ a lovesick talisman
f l a r e s fallen sparks,
seeking Mayan glyphs of hope
amidst layered lace of halcyon,
illuminated with tears
of black diamonds,
for the empires ruined
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Categories:
cremated, magic,
Form: Free verse
Sky of Fireflies
...Silver souls melting like lava red hot
Cremated by lost lover’s cranberry heart
Passion fashioned by Cupid and the breeze
Death came too soon taking blue fantasy
Was sleep walking through land ...
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Categories:
cremated, angel, angst, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
A Journey to Nineteen
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A month named after Maia
A transition from spring to summer
24 rotations on its axis
19 circles round the sun
a boy born, his future uncertain
years of hardship, keep enduring pain
Heart sha...
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Categories:
cremated, birthday,
Form: Free verse
Heaven and Earthworms
...I have given many a thought to what happens when we die, specifically, what happens to our bodies. You have the option to be classically buried, cremated, donated to science. I think I don't want to ...
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Categories:
cremated, death, earth, freedom, growth,
Form: Free verse
Anywhere But Here
...But wherever you are, I no longer want to be:
for you are thunderstruck moonlight,
and I am a scarred sunset ~ a secret in saffron,
melting into the myth that floats forever,
within silenced...
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Categories:
cremated, angst, dark, destiny,
Form: Free verse
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