Death Marriage Poems

Couples make a big commitment,
when, at the altar, they say, “I do,”
vowing to love, hold, and cherish
and declaring, ‘Til death do us part.”
Not aware of...

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Whispers and sighs, softest of smiles
Reveal the music playing in the heart.
Beautiful rhymes, soothing the nights,
Stirring joy, faith and love – 

Breaths of prayers, some...

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Genre: Poetry
Title: Love Beyond Death
Author: John King Ayanfe ©

If your love is my Hercules heel
Thence, I'd be ready to die a valian
For you sake, I'd...

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Power
Over life
Gives
Power
Over death

One
Dictates
The other
In joy
And regret

Each
Beginning
And ending
Brings
More of the same

Our 
Destiny
Married
To both
—in refrain

(The New Room: January, 2024)
...

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The snowman 
fun and cold 
watching kids. 

Covered in snow 
white head to toe 
sun stay away 
please no melting. 

Frosty is my name 
A...

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Finally I am wearing my white shiny dress 
Everyone around the world will see me on media
I’m getting married with the man of my dream...

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Roses and the world’s fading into black 
Every tear that falls from your eyes,
I set a wish aside for you 

As I start to notice
the...

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“Till Death Do Us Part”
Miracle Man
11/27/2023

We can’t undo life disappointments,
that rest within our past.
But then, whatever remaining time,
shouldn’t be a similar day.
The memories we hold...

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What lies beneath the nuptial necropolis?
Sun-glints of memory,
warm rays of kinder days,
tranquil as the soil-sleepers
before they broke the coffin confines
and howled free.
What lies beneath the...

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Death of a marital relationship is painful.
I pray that I never encounter such pain.

Indivisible is replaced by splitting, by divisible.
Like mercy trumps judgment, may unity...

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DEATH of a marital relationship is painful

INDIVISIBLE is replaced by splitting, by divisible

VOICES of love are exchanged by myriads of questions

OPPORTUNITIES and dreams often turn...

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We must tie them down and keep them safe
To understand their weight in wake
Watch as these threads do wind
one by one holding new mind

At once...

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Though a body dies, the soul breathes on
     elegance undeterred, graceful as a swan

   So it was with Sarah,...

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I must be nutty as a fruitcake
      for attending my sister's
         'pre-marital...

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reading 
love letters wrtten 
from a past he cannot
recall and she sorrows feeling
the loss

of love
and certain death
coming quickly for him,
quietly overcome with grief
she flees.

reading
the loss
of...

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