OF LIFE AND DEATH TODAY: A 5-7-5-7-7-7-5-7-5-7 FLOW
OF LIFE AND DEATH TODAY: A 5-7-5-7-7-7-5-7-5-7 FLOW
(Apropos Of An Ironic Juxtaposed Reality)
Ironically,
it’s cheaper to live than die:
Save, self-cremation:-
Even then, you must pay for
The ashes to be cleaned up:-
And don’t forget, the family
Is charged to pay off all debts
That you may have left behind:-
Ironically,
We are born to live and die,
Life, being cheaper:
Funerals are expensive!
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Categories:
life and death, death, life,
Form: Free verse
The Colors of Nothing
In our universe so vast, life and death is an interpretation.
In our life, we hold dear sadness, and joy is an imagination.
Our life is full of colors, or so we assume,
But there are no colours — just the product of our brains.
Reality is beyond what we imagine.
What we see around is just an illusion.
Nothing is
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Categories:
life and death, 10th grade, angst, color,
Form: Free verse
Corridors of Quiet Chaos
Blinding lights, the smell of chlorhexidine
Green colored scrubs, white coats and the strange red of povidone-iodine
A place where chaos and calm coexist as two sides of a coin
A realm where anguish and hope align, a balance between both cruel and divine
It’s a glimpse of hope for some, for others it’s a livelihood
It’s a place where
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Categories:
life and death, deep, faith, health, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Life and Death
It was to be expected at some point
but when death comes it is still a shock
we wish that person could live forever
that we do not have to say goodbye
once they are gone we wish again
wish we could talk to them
wish we could still get advice
still have them in our life
but life carries on
one by one
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Categories:
life and death, death,
Form: Free verse
Life and Death
Staring down your enemy, conquering your fear,
Shadowed by death, by cruelty and despair.
The sight before you; is the same as before,
Walking alone, down the same dark corridor.
The beauty of the world is reticent to your eyes,
Your worst nightmares are reality; you NOW realize.
Dazed and confused, you make for the tunnels end,
Only to find you’re at
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Categories:
life and death, anxiety, beautiful, courage, death,
Form: Narrative
Life and Death
into reticence
a silent hive where worms thrive
past lives make their bed
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Categories:
life and death, death, life, nature,
Form: Haiku
Life and Death with Strangers
Mother, father, you are the strange migrants who arrived before me, I see you moving away, for no home anywhere could complete us all, and strangely, now I am before you. Sister, brother, child, we never did know which way to go,
or from where we arrived from. A family history is no more nor less
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Categories:
life and death, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Simultaneity of life and death
The simultaneity
Of life and death
May appear as
A timeline of life..
This is simply
Just a story which
May tag time as an
Illusionary veil of
The simultaneity...
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Categories:
life and death, heaven, prayer, truth,
Form: I do not know?
Of Life and Death
Of Life and Death
Before death's ominous thunder clouds appear
to steal all the glory and fill us with fear I shout to the heavens in a request to sustain one man's life to live another day
Inevitably high waters shall rise and slowly fade as I gain momentum to see another day
Of survive I
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Categories:
life and death, death, god, life,
Form: Free verse
Life And Death
It is not our choice to die
It is just our time
To truly value this gift of life
Be mindful of its limitations
Remember it is not forever
So live your best life
As death is inevitable
And that is Ok
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Categories:
life and death, death, journey, life,
Form: Rhyme
Life and death in the strokes of the keys
Reading past writings
With lack of recognition..
What prompted the rising
Of those words..?
Many seem strange indeed
Words rising and gone
Life and death in the
Strokes of the keys...
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Categories:
life and death, words,
Form: Light Verse
The cry of birth
Caught between Life and death
With roaring and panic
Looking for hands but none
With glowing eyes.
Heavy breathe and gasp
But none to show
Dive right to left
Waiting for the Joy that ceasen't
All eyes curious and expectant.
All legs stiffed to the ground
Like a statue or maniquine.
All faces furious but anxious
All waiting for the arrival of the eternal Joy
There
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Categories:
life and death, 1st grade, allusion, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Where Should I Go To Die
My dearest friend,
What an ache it is to write to you, knowing my pain, knowing how my mortal body falters beneath the weight of its trials.
My words, though steeped in suffering, ring like a low bell in the evening—melancholy but beautiful, laced with the music of a soul nearing the sea's eternal shore.
Where should I
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Categories:
life and death, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
APROPOS OF PEACE, WAR, LIFE AND DEATH
A…2-4-2…Sextet
Peace…No!
Loud bombs explode—
It’s war!
Children
Feed war each day;
Death smiles:-
Pooped bombs,
Swell graves’ bellies;
Death farts:-
In war,
Only death wins;
Peace can’t:-
Love peace,
War is evil—
Crave life:-
The war—
Fought to get peace;
Lost it:-
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Categories:
life and death, allegory, death, extended metaphor,
Form: Prose
Life and Death
Life and death
Seem separate
But also may seem
Simultaneous and
Timeless..
Understood and
Beyond understanding..
Life may seem
As searching
For a resonance with
Such a canvas of
Life and death...
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Categories:
life and death, beauty, song, words,
Form: Light Verse
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