Requiescat For Joe D
Requiescat for Joe D
Written: by Tom Wright
4/21/2018
Though he lies reposed somewhere in a Texas field,
The anxiety, and hurt he tendered, can’t be concealed.
He made no effort to link with family or to appease,
Now his scattered cremains obey each Texas breeze.
For thirty years his whereabouts remained unknown,
And when the end came for him, he chose
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Categories:
requiescat, death, god, tribute, war,
Form: Lyric
Requiescat In Pacem
Requiescat In Pacem
when I leave this world
look not for me under the dried ground
but look up and see me beneath the skies
when I pass from this realm
weep not for my absence from your crowd
but feel my presence in the gentle wind
find solace in my words, those that I've writ
know that this heart belongs to you
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Categories:
requiescat, funeral,
Form: Free verse
Requiescat In Pace
Requiescat in Pace
Written: by Tom Wright
February 2015
At the outset,
Tears start like dew from a tender leaf,
Then transcend into a torrent;
A mind is a library of thoughts,
Neatly categorized,
Until this contrary wind blew;
Rummaging through past thoughts,
Has left me feeling careworn,
Without experience or wisdom;
As I drift betwixt illusion and realism.
Confusion is cursing my mind,
Leaving pools of passion
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Categories:
requiescat, death of a friend,
Form: Free verse
Long Rest - Contest - See Requiescat By Briton Riviere
Long Rest
(Contest entry)
(Requiescat by Briton Rivière)
Oh master why's your rest so long
Command and I'll obey
You lay there post your victory
And at your side I'll stay
I seen them lift you from the field
Of combat when you fell
My Knight you lay there
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Categories:
requiescat, animal, bereavement, best friend,
Form: Rhyme
Requiescat In Pace
If I knew it was gonna be this
way
I would've never invested
The time and money spent
On the girl I thought I loved
but I truly resented
We say we learned but I really
just grew
I remained the same man I was
Changed for the better
But the same guy you knew
Now I'm in debt
And I owe my
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Categories:
requiescat, lost love
Form: Rhyme
Requiescat Dum Resurgat
The province of delayed gratification
Poetry is dead.
There is now no appetite for deep reflection
In this far from limpid pool.
Abhorrent is meditation
To the present lords of all misrule.
Carpe diem once was for the nonce
Its writ now runs for aye.
Omnivorous science depredates
The very bones of our being.
Gradgrindery completely disintegrates
The very heart of our seeing.
Dawkins' dogma aims
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Categories:
requiescat, faith, imagination, loss,
Form: Rhyme
Requiescat of Solitude.
Sweet summer winds, hear me
Ne’er endure this bewailing daybreak
For where whether not daylight rises
Now silenced eternal under prettified blossoms
Sleeps that sweet beauty that defined me.
Under the dimly faded blanket of Gaia
In the blanched obsidian void of memory
Her slowly fading voice of once yesterdays
Never again to behold tomorrows promise
Or the faint blushing of a passionate
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Categories:
requiescat, death, life, loss, philosophy
Form: Free verse