Death Poems

Embryo begins outline of entity undetectably
Heart's last beat farewells inhabitant inevitably
Day drawn in brightness brings night to fruition
Opposites reunite in vital linked recognition 

Expectant plight climbs tiny kernels' potential
- prods pod of realisation, persistence temporal
Finest silken fighters align from depth...Read More

‘Corona’ you ‘old gipsy man’
Crowned over humanity, victorious
Ushering Coleridge’s Angel of death - the LADY with
Bright red-lips and dead-white-skin? 
Caging people and casting spell? 

You anchored the coast of every continent,
Fueled with hasty vengeance, 
Counting the cost of all who...Read More

Covid19
Deep sleep they were, I crept freely.
Walking around the streets, notice of me never scared me.
I  planned my invasion, for I knew no preparation made to stop me
The sky allowed me, the earth helped me, the air rejected me
Why...Read More

How favoured a thing that nature will curse us of you 
While I shall not!
The pandemic is not a coincidence,
It is meant by nature to balance the book;
Technology has overpowered death,
We live longer,
So overpopulation is fortified.

How favoured a thing that...Read More

In the widely spread universe 
Only the Earth is alive--- you observe 

And it blessed you with life, Do you agree
And so many more, some you see
While some you even won’t believe 

Yes, at start things for fine--- for Her...Read More

As to how the current virus was born,
Other than by displeased holy decree,
Blame it all on Saturn in Capricorn,
Conjunct Pluto ("death") at a close degree,
Add in Jupiter in detriment
To magnify the chances of impact,
A nasty gathering of malcontents,
A trio of...Read More

April 3 Poems

Humor keeps us sane
it is a piece of what we need to do
to prevent us from getting 
the dreaded corona virus
coming up your nose

Pensively prompt - unpublished


creative talents unleashed

First Kiss with My wife

It was 1982 
when I first...Read More

We've been exposed to too much discrimination
Simply because we are Black
Our African heritage appears to be
Like a target on our backs
Some cops believe that over us
They had the power of death and life
But we as a people we put our...Read More

I never knew it was capable to die, but still be able to breathe, at least not until the day that you told me that we couldn’t be
There I sat in the same chair that you last saw my face,...Read More

Author Dana Redricks
April 2, 2020

Today I received the worst news I thought 
I ever could hear. The words of my aunt 
telling me, you passed away. Today you 
died and went home to be with the Lord. 
You are where...Read More

Have You

Ever wondered how it happens?
How the last person stays, 
How they make sure, everyone else gets out?

Ever wonder why?
Is that important? 
As long as we are safe, 
does it really matter who sacrificed;
or more specifically or…
even more importantly what...Read More

I don’t hold any authority,
I am small compared to Your enormity.
Why then have I been rescued,
Who am I to have been pursued?

His is the power, He is the glory,
I am but a piece to unfold in His story.
God of my...Read More

I had a dream that I was performing at an open mic. Where Dad was speaking on the same show and was his poem.

On my death bed I prayed and I cry
And when you visited me I heard ur prayers...Read More

time travel’n peace —
ought we find rather death,
war — tread on me.

funny the face, the companionship
of outer space, the innocence
of the sun and sky.

she still provides
the radiance of warmth;
him the blue or gray stormy eyes.

down ‘low discovery of weeds,
white and...Read More

What to do with all this down time ?

Now that i have cleaned the house

Done the garden 

And reorganised the shed

Nothing left to do

But ponder on the bad stuff

That which gives us sleepless night's

That frightens us to death

Our working day...Read More

I ask myself ?

Where has my voice gone
during all of this ?

Why has my pen run dry ?

Why have i said or wrote nothing ?

How can i truly call myself a poet ?

If through word's and thought ?

I am simply...Read More

The Passing of Fear
A mark on the door…

It is so quiet here, 
I believe that I can hear a snake, 
meandering across the dirt road, 
along the backside of the west fence. 
Usually he takes his time, 
but tonight, 
he...Read More

I walk upon the earth with my pup
No one is in sight they are all closed up
Tight within their homes with flight and fear 
From the Covid 19 we battle here
It seems on line the only safe place to go
But...Read More

Hot soup here
Keeping at arms length;
Face mask call-signs

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Antiseptic atmosphere
Pockets of isolation;
Together yet distanced

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Empty public places
Ghost town feeling;
Pandemic toll

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Lockdown hits hard
Widespread anxiety;
Fear chokes worry

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Global bad news
Broken economies;
A tragic retreat

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Just a small virus
Strangles our mortality;
Deadly lung infection

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Across the world
Colour blind viral works;
Shades...Read More

Craft choice 
Pure poise
Numbs noise


Vet vice
Sweet spice
Prompts price


Taste touch
Move much
Stretch such


Glimpse gain
Pique plain
Soft strains 


Taste truth
Grand grooves
Prize proof


Dig deep
Seize sleep
Wit weeps


Right reach 
Etch each
Prompt preach


Death dance
Croons chance
Grim glance




Leon Enriquez
01 April 2020
Singapore 

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One of the questions
  after the Holocaust
was and is "Why Me?"
  Why did they die and I live?

There is no answer
  to this question
God's ways are inscrutable
  His plan unknowable  

Yet there's this -- 
...Read More

O Spring, O Life, where art thou?
Everywhere I look, new-born life:
flowers are singing, birds dancing,
while squirrels play away the day--

But there still is death in the air,
an ugly, cold-hearted killer too
tiny to see but big enough to
lay waste to mighty...Read More

Every human has a beast within;
He maybe a man who hasn’t done a sin;
But that doesn’t imply his beast is dead.
He can awake if his frustration is well fed.

YAWP! YAAWP! He cries,
He screams. His voice itself horrifies
The phantoms and certified...Read More

Lets pull the trigger to create a smoking gun

bang when cold steel feels the hot lead pellets burn

Death becomes the reaper aiming at a target set guilty

tools of the dark side work tirelessly spilling blood

The victim has no choice in...Read More

Long behold a secret told,
That all’s beheld in falsi gold,
That glitters through our minds that think,
Into darkness sink, we sink,

All the worlds the knees bow down,
This Dragon that kills now sends its help,
What Hypocrisy! More or less’t,
A conspiracy against our...Read More

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