Living Dying Poems


Premium MemberLIFE'S SYMBOLIC JUXATAPOSITIONS

Living and dying,
juxtaposed realities;
life's cradles and graves:-
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Categories: living dying, allegory,
Form: Senryu

Living or dying

Is life living or is it dying
Yes you are a live but are you living
Every hour, every minute and every second you are coming closer to your death
It’s a sad thought
But than again life is sad

(My first poem. Any tips please tell me)
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Categories: living dying, deep,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberOther Hungry Things

Other Hungry things
David J Walker

There is a certain living
In the drying things of
The garden
That was, just yesterday
Green

There is a certain living
In the dying things 
Lying on the prairie 
that were, just yesterday
Seen 
Living and Running 

There is a certain giving
In the taking of life from
All other living things 
Planted on the
Earth
Where each birth 
is celebrated
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Categories: living dying, allegory, fate,
Form: Rhyme

Eat To Live Or Live To Eat

That one eats to live is a lie.
This maxim will simply not fly.
Since everyone dies,
death acts as life's prize.
And therefore, we all eat to die.

That we live to eat seems quite right.
Life trickles away bite by bite.
But this we deny
and strongly decry
while drooling at food's very sight.
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Categories: living dying, food, humorous,
Form: Limerick

Living Dying In Real Time

Living .Dying In Real Time       8/1/12

Walking through the shadows where living images once resided an eerie feeling sweeps over those non believers, stoic.
Crying? Dying? Choices too few decisions not made what happened to the plans of long removed youth? Somber mood prevails now, calling from the shadows.

Come hither she
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Categories: living dying, adventure, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: Dramatic Verse


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