Loss Death Poems

Another


     Another one is gone. A friend, family, a piece of my life and the fabric of the world; gone to...

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a lone car on a highway at 5am
its headlight beams knife the dark
no exit wounds
just a flash of steely light pushing 
deeper and deeper into...

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Maybe it won't be drugs that have the final say,
Or the gangs,
Terrorism will struggle to do it, 
It may not even be the battle of...

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She could not be less than my Love, my Friend,
She broke open each fiction I’d believed,
She touched my hands like Time would never end,
And, in...

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I thought that God had done with me, had found me wanting.
I was good enough for crumbs, but not for soup.
I did not think that...

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On that night the moon seemed hidden from her starry brothers
The kind of night not suited for the fighters nor the lovers
I ventured out only...

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Black Dog 2

Mary was a single Mom;
Her stress was very great.
Sometimes her kids ate crackers,
And sometimes the rent was late.

Black Dog! What’s your purpose?
Why are...

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Orpheus' long, slow, crawl out of Hell
Has left him nothing -- not even himself.

He looked back, and he killed her!

"O!  The Paralyzed and Fruitless...

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The loneliest of lights, 
from the smallest of stars,   
comes on me tenderly,   
illuminating the pages 
scattered on the bed. ...

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“How Strange… it’s Hard for me to wash your clothes:
They will be put away for the last time…
They’ve stayed ten months in small piles, and,...

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She sleeps forever
I sleep funeral day
she shall be buried in earth
I , buried in wine
one day flowers I will lay
at her graveside

Never the less
consumption will...

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Yes, God does give and take away
but when He gives, it is a gift
a truth your life so well portrays,
the one our lives were well...

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Death is unavoidable. 
Death cannot be reversed. 
Death cannot be stopped, 
Death can be fought but can’t be beaten.

Death is a most feared foe. 
Death...

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Yea, I Admit Being A Little Uptight...

Yet,...this baby boomer surrenders
since many an elapsed yesternight
to inevitable (albeit gradual)
cosmic fusion with universal spright
notched calendrical anniversary, mine
nondescript birth...

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Oh, Now!  The Words that should have come, too soon
Do fade away and into Paradise!
All that I would have said in that white room,
Is...

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Desolation,
A desolation of my heart.
It settles over my soul,
That spills from my windows, my eyes.

So strong we once were.
So set against the storms,
Against the fiery...

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Mommy, can we go to the corner store?
I’ve saved my allowance for two weeks.
I must have a hundred bucks, maybe more!
I want chocolates to fill...

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In these perplexing days, I look around and lying seems to be the norm a political storm with high officials who cannot solve the nation's...

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I have thought many battles in my time,
through centuries pages I have walked tall.
My stories told through battles bloody rhyme,
every death my mind it does...

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With music playing from across the room,
the notes of love are drifting through the air,
and in my heart our romance still abloom 
with bodies swaying...

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