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Requiem Poems - Poems about Requiem

Jukebox Requiem
ANGIE, that last slow dance in smoky haze— you slipped UNDER MY THUMB like twilight’s ache. The Rolling Stones crooned fate through tangled days; I tried to PAINT IT BLACK for mercy’s sake. But YOU CAN’T ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU WANT—truth stings— just loaded TUMBLIN DICE in neon towns, chasing HONKY TONK WOMEN on borrowed wings while WILD HORSES dragged dreams to...

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Categories: requiem, imagery, inspirational, meaningful, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
The Dustbin of History: A Requiem for Western Media
Once, they claimed to hold the torch, To light the world with truth and reason. But the West’s media empire— Was born not in truth, But in treason. From BBC’s royal scripts, To CNN’s manicured myths, From Fox’s fury-laced fables, To NBC’s polished distortions— They were trained, not to inform, But to perform For the empire's applause. Every lens tilted, Every headline coded, Every silence calculated— To shape the world In...

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Categories: requiem, film, funeral, nonsense, western,
Form: Free verse



Mercury's Requiem
There was a young man named Fred (the tooth fairy lived in dread) a wild flamboyant from afar the spice island Zanzibar a singer he'd been and sang a good song with four-octave range in the band called Queen tho' considered 'strange' with plus four in the upper jaw he had more teeth than most once nicely depraved now dead and gone when he gave up the ghost shuffled...

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Categories: requiem, death, fun, humorous, music,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Requiem en terna
A warm sun rises As Cardinals bow their heads Hope springs eternal ...

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Categories: requiem, faith, word play,
Form: Senryu
Hide of Tyke in Hold
Heartthrob in damsel drag Belief of human bile Completely instilling cascading dregs of mechanical flesh, bones and spit 64th avenue And coiling deft doom Winged balls of bulging blood and speckled steel Merry wails and flutters of moths unsealed Fitted upon falling kneel And reckoned release of rotten roadkill- Rats and babes and brats Congealed candy and sickeningly sweet brandy And hailed light of...

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Categories: requiem, abuse, desire, drug, film,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Masked Requiem for a Virulent Era
A cold berating light-erasing rope survives relentless entropy (another year ends another variant contends) Desolate debris in empty erroneous caves swallow blank pages submerged in mind-warping seas where flying memes wait for normalcy where words freeze & thoughts become sadistic (a poisoned (out of mind) mind crawls on the radar) Trapped in a gray tomb: the inert inerrants flounder in...

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Categories: requiem, dark, society, surreal, word
Form: Free verse
Requiem For My Dreams
Long have I slept Its time to wake Words not kept And I've been very late Tedious was my slumber And empty my heart Over lost hopes I ponder Am I too late for a new start? As my nerves come back to life I feel in my heart this knife Its sinking all the time What has been my crime? How have I been? Left so far...

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Categories: requiem, anxiety, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Requiem
I Incontrovertible truths endure when the beginning of the end has begun - blessed is he who rejoices in his fate and damned is the fool by his own will...

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Categories: requiem, death, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Echoes for a War Requiem
I think sometimes of the life there once was: Of a time when birds sang throughout the woods And insects flitted between the flowers. But when greedy hands infected the land, The beauty was ruined; life lost its home— And the gentle calls of sparrows and swifts Were quickly replaced with thundering guns Foxes found their homes within dead bodies, And owls...

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Categories: requiem, death, memory, nature, remember,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member Requiem for Elmer
*After my last post I thought it would be nice to lighten up a bit with some warm, happy (well, not so happy for Elmer) pest poetry. Who doesn't love bug humor? This one actually won first place in a Deb Guzzi contest back in the day. "And so this court finds you, Elmer T. Roach...

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Categories: requiem, humor, murder,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Requiem
There underneath a yew tree, she will stay, a dear queen she was and loved by many, stop in silence, no tears, then go your way, with kind words of prayers, if you have any. slow dust will settle to cover her stones, then be washed and cleaned by year’s monsoon rain, let mother nature care and keep these bones, let motherless...

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Categories: requiem, death, devotion, emotions, prayer,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Requiem For A Motherless Child
The weeds have sheathed the garden from its care as more nails than wood appear of a house lacking adjectives. A sun liberated from scathing entrapment amongst an overburdened forest whose boughs are heavily laden and are unforgivingly denied rest. Dark exacts night's flit to the gloaming of a lightless day and as such ascribe...

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Categories: requiem, appreciation, black african american,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Requiem for a motherless child
oh! gentle breeze! flow past my fingers to caress the meadow, Wash my fair feet, silver stream as you whisper to the pebbles, watch my face as you float white clouds! high up in the blue, blue sky, smile at me, wave to me, spring flowers, and not mock at my golden hair under my straw hat! I am nature, I am a...

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Categories: requiem, blessing, earth day,
Form: Free verse
Requiem for a Motherless Child
REQUIEM FOR A MOTHERLESS CHILD Hallelujah….. Hallelujah…..Hallelujah Leaning on the somewhat-padded kneelers is a family lined horizontal to the father. This is as close as they’ve been to each other since the last show was put on. The first act is always the same. Smiling faces, awkward embraces with peace be with you’s. The daughter distracts herself by etching “help,” on the...

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Categories: requiem, child abuse, childhood, family,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Requiem for a Motherless Child
I was buried in a tomb for unknown persons. When I was alive I knew nothing of this life. Now that I'm dead I seem to have acquired it all. My heartless mother abandoned me, unwanted, Left me on the cold stairs of the door of Poor Claire's. The rain fell incessantly and I cried hungry. It was a time when...

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Categories: requiem, baby, death,
Form: Free verse

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