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The Day the World Died
The day the world died!


Have you ever wondered why tribes and peoples from ancient times, until now have a day to remember and honor the dead?  
There are popular festivals the world over, where...

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Categories: day of the dead, bible, death, earth, god, halloween, history, remember,
Form: Didactic



Untitled
Skynard told me, when I was young
To live my life but to live a simple one
Lord knows I've tried but I took a different road
Life can be a mess or beauty can take your breath
But...

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Categories: day of the dead, adventure,
Form: Lyric
Attention
you are imagination____which is fascination turned Geometric Shape (the line 
connects_follow
it for it never ends) the alphabet forms itself, you see, each time the mouth opens 
and curves 
around in-between through each and every letter....

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Categories: day of the dead, allegory, angst, death, life, loss, sad, teen,
Form: Free verse
The Question
The Question … 


I had some questions, I asked a friend,
What is my purpose? Where is the end?
What happens to us when we all die?
Do we turn to ghosts ready to fly?

He smiled at me...

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Categories: day of the dead, fantasy, satire, science, spiritual,
Form: Masnavi
Microchip Implant Right Up the Asking
Hay!
lets keep this simple 
lets not!
just keep this 
between you and me 

I've be identified
ask tagged like a beast  

silly rabbit 
can't you see
that trick are for sick-o's
and guys name Dick

so let not act...

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Categories: day of the dead, abuse, betrayal, bullying, celebrity, corruption, integrity, international,
Form: Bio



Indian Village
Time spent in Indian village, is - wisdom won plenty,
Wealth in the urn of common sense, here, never go empty...

Day here, though with chirps of birds, never dawns with no prayer,
Whether from Temple, mosque, church,...

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Categories: day of the dead, feelings, humanity, life, peace, religious,
Form: Couplet
The Devil's Due
I really should'a read the fine print

When Evil came calling
On a fine sunny day
I was caught full napping
Didn't know what to say.

The dapper gentleman
With a Van Dyke set fine
Spoke in dulcet tones
Like sweet and mellow...

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Categories: day of the dead, humorous,
Form: Quatrain
The Road Ahead
Two score and a decade have past
It's time to be reflective
To take account of all I've done
And put it in perspective

All my wild oats are sown
The grain is in the bin
Sometimes I wish I had...

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Categories: day of the dead, life, life, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cupid
Cupid Herself sings to us a love song,
hoping to infuse in hearts, love and light,
that we enter heaven, where we belong
but since demonic fear is our soul’s blight,
cold heart notices not love’s seduction,
bemused by desires,...

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Categories: day of the dead, love, spiritual,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
The Day We Met
THE  DAY   WE   MET


O cursed was the day we met in Auschwitz   
God had forgotten us  that day    
Another  day of hell ...

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Categories: day of the dead, dedicationday, time, day, time, , memorial,
Form: Verse
The Festival of Samhain
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Standing upon centre's stage as the crowd became frenzied amid anticipation 

Wild in abandonment as their naked bodies began to dance within the aisles 

Shouting in revelry this festivity celebrating the end of summers, dawning

Day...

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Categories: day of the dead, hope, life, love, night, night,
Form: I do not know?
His Father's Son
HIS FATHERS SON							07-23-08


“He is his fathers son” ,
The one that you should’ve taught, right from wrong
He’s the one who you kept waiting all night long.

“He is your offspring” , 
Your footsteps he should’ve been following
While...

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© Ida Igess  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: day of the dead, familylove, drug,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member The San Antonio Night Crossing
“... The closeness of the place and the heat of the climate, 
        added to the number in the ship which was so crowded 
   ...

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Categories: day of the dead, change, death, immigration, people,
Form: Free verse
Birch
These are important,too:
      Shadows cast by sunlight on the stone fence,
     Steaming sunbeams cutting through the oaks,
     Dappling my forest floor,
 ...

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Categories: day of the dead, nature
Form: I do not know?
Carpe Diem
On a day back in the March of 2007, the world changed forever.
From the sky came a message to remember.  It showed a day when
the Maya played a Great Game.  They marked it...

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© Izzy Gumbo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: day of the dead, fantasyday, children, night, children, day, journey, night,
Form: I do not know?
Day of the Dead
"Dia de Los Muertos", the Spanish name it.  Eve
of All Saints, saw we of the church of blessed assurance
of an observance ushering in fall while easing
our multilingual obsession with death.  The sun shines
on...

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© Nola Perez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: day of the dead, death,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Mocking the Dead
The splendorous span of my fervent firmament,
twinkled with the tinsels of the cerulean night, 
where my yearning gleamed with transparent tinge, 
suffused with the sequins of the silver moon,
sequestered within the stream of stardust.

The beguiling...

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Categories: day of the dead, analogy, death, dream,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Are We Mortal Men Or Blinded Field Mice
Are We Mortal Men Or Blinded Field Mice?

Dare I forgive, this sadder light of day
Stumble within its long, dark corridor.
Crawl forth, this body made of earthen clay
Begging for sweet relief and nothing more?

Are we mortal...

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Categories: day of the dead, art, conflict, death, deep, introspection, judgement, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Tear Less Was Only Your First Crime
Tear Less Was Only Your First Crime


You thought I forgot you tear less face, as they dropped me body down in to the gates of death? You think I wouldn't come back to find you...

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Categories: day of the dead, life, loss, me, earth, me,
Form: Free verse
Rainy Days and Mondays
It's Monday
The day of the dead leaves and fresh flowers
The dry and wet hours
Like the other days
Of life and death
The desert and the lake
Thousands of the little ponds
The debris waiting for the mansion
Farmers stacking the...

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Categories: day of the dead, color, memory, pain, rain,
Form: Free verse
A Gangster Life
A Gangster Life

To live a life of no regrets started from the life of cigarettes
 The life of a gangster, or you can even say gangbuster,
 For him no cares, and to understand him no...

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Categories: day of the dead, adventure, america, angel, basketball, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Philosophy On Youth and Old Age
Philosophy On Youth And Old Age



Life bears its pain with a howl,
stubborn pride laying in tow
Yet living is always for the now
(Youthful pride sings out to play and show)!

Looking back, regrets eats out so many...

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Categories: day of the dead, absence, abuse, age, anger, angst, art, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Down To Georgia
Down to Georgia my sister and I went,
                           ...

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Categories: day of the dead, nostalgia, sister, day, sister,
Form: Lyric
Zodiacs, Day of the Dead!?
Paradoxes perceived....

Alas, afore perditions peremptory paroxysms passing

Recompense, aneath this incantations au revoirs pier?!

Intensity wrought forth amid the speculums mist

Surging slicing waves rolling in; brevitations acme ~

This cresendos apsis, imploding both place and time; time

Sending forth...

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Categories: day of the dead, faith, love, sympathy, time
Form: I do not know?
Free Cee Dazed By the Days
DAZED BY THE DAYS

There were days
Once wondrous days
There were nights
Thunderous nights that were claimed by a haze

Everyday was bright
Because you heralded away the gray
Everything seemed right
But that’s not so for today

There were eves
Once slumbered dark
I...

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Categories: day of the dead, angst, day, day, me, sensual,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Reflection on the Important Things