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Requiems Poems - Poems about Requiems

BAR CHRONICLES

...Fireflies in my bourbon 
(PART 4 OF 10)

The bar looks haunted today,
Jukebox playing requiems as long songs,
Cigarette smoke suffocating air in between inhalations,A man knows he needs air to f...
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Categories: requiems, addiction, anger,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberCemetery of Corpse Roses

..."Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow. " ~ Shakespeare

As fragments of the stars abandoned
the sage of night, my kohl he...
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Categories: requiems, angst, emotions, gothic,
Form: Nonet



Between The Covers - Tribute to Rain Literary Magazine

...Pull back the covers and experience,
Just how fresh and crisp it is inside,
Discover a poet who once lived among us,
And built community,
Out of encouragement, fun and wondering

Like you, he p...
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Categories: requiems, art, poetry, poets, river,
Form: Blank verse

Premium MemberRefining Consciousness

...“instrumentalising mind, I rested thought
employing it only when needed
shifting to heart, I became self-taught
gentling touch, voice of conscience heeded” ~ Unseeking Seeker<...
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Categories: requiems, dance, dream,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberGolden Mirror

...In my blooming brokenness,
        I seek for a 
    clue of something meaningful,
but what if nothing    of velvety value
      ever lies within material items,
frozen in trembling time,
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Categories: requiems, deep,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberCoherent Chorus of Compassion

...I write my thoughts 
on paper,
 let  ink of my soul
      glow, amidst the grief
     I carry in echoing stillness, 
   for it is through words,
     I’ve found healing,
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Categories: requiems, metaphor, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMaiden of Musical Moonshine

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Music is an undying 
art of soul ~ 
an abstract eden, where, 
euphonious unicorns 
glide in strawberry sonatas, 
amplifying rhapsody in
ballads of flight, 
when fuchsia feathers
tease...
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Categories: requiems, art, deep, life, meaningful,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHeartbeats in Heaven

...Sometimes when 
moonlight weeps to sleep,
I sit, draped 
in burning dreams,
and beautiful nightmares 
of moments lost,
engraved along the rising
of blushing blossoms,
within cerulean azure.
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Categories: requiems, absence, destiny, heaven, i
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTo Bloom Again

...House Wrens in the Cottonwoods trill
Sonorous requiems ringing out as poetry
In sullen streams of languid silence-
A eulogy of bereft love 

Wistful woeful clouds scuddle
Across the somnolent h...
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Categories: requiems, goodbye, i love you,
Form: Free verse

I Have Started Using Firewood

...Crosscheck with An Honest Magazine
Price of liter of kerosene:
What it costs to upload ten poems,
I hate: Thief!” leading to requiems,
Poet to freely leave Cybercafé,
And at home drink Calming N...
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Categories: requiems, allusion, anxiety, money, poverty,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberI Walk the Stars

...I walk the stars beyond my shadowed dreams.
Not cognizant, the mortal dim of eyes -
On twilight’s breast, my coalescent seams.

Kids’ adorn’d my hair - my birthday crown, beams.
No s...
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Categories: requiems, death,
Form: Villanelle

Premium MemberUnselfish Heart

...Line of inquiry - Ego shorn, here now reborn.

Unselfish Heart

The glow of the unselfish heart
Decorates emptiness with candles
While scattered relics of garden purity
Re-light votives in Bab...
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Categories: requiems, birth,
Form: Free verse

Eighty-Eight Keys

...Eighty-eight keys of ivory
Create the story of history
From requiems and waltzes
To rhythm and blues,
From dirges and ballads
To pop and rock,
How amazing! What stories are told
By gifted musi...
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Categories: requiems, music,
Form: Free verse

Dave Risks Early Grave

...Let us at Risk-Taking Dave
Lengthily rave 
For choosing to live in a cave
Also, The Choice of a Gorilla
That could demolish a stout slave
And wrestling Victory not release to a Godzilla …

To ...
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Categories: requiems, character, death, desire, violence,
Form: Rhyme

About Me

...my name means flames that crawl down your face and ruin your night
it's when you laugh so hard you break your spine
but then realize you never had one in the first place
it's when you beg God to m...
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Categories: requiems, 12th grade, angst, anxiety,
Form: I do not know?

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