Short Deathbed Poems

a bloom in deathbed--twilight's bidding goodbye


12/27/18...

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child on her deathbed
black ants walking in the line
gray leaves are falling...

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farewell deathbed muse 
my last word upon last breath 
whispers No to Hell 

March 25,  2023...

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I arrive
too late to my fathers
deathbed
he's already had the stroke
and counts the spiders patiently...

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I can't imagine a more greater sense of strife
than to be on yor deathbed knowing you've wasted your life....

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There was a lady named Cass
Who on her deathbed passed gas
Respecting the dead
All stayed close to the bed
Hoping it would be her last...

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As Moses on his deathbed lay
He had so much he needed to say
All of it he'd told his people before
~ At Death's Door they were attentive more...

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Agonising golden leaves 

On their deathbed, recalling 

Days of glory that have past

Awaiting rebirth!








(c) Demetrios Trifiatis
       24 October 2016


7-7-7-5...

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all the family
near her deathbed: glazed eyes seek
an aborted child


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© 5th January 2020...

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Agonizing golden leaves are trembling as Autumn's bitter wind blows

Fearing to fall onto their deathbed beneath the tree and decompose!  








© Demetrios Trifiatis
    28 September 2021...

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Life,
Breath -
Taken
One leg gone
Perished in deathbed
Diabetes  murdered Grandpa
Benumbed by ill - gash's agony perforating - dulled
Gold medal won after the day of his death reminds me of his only heart memoirs......

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At last on my deathbed
I reach for two words

The ones often transient
or sadly unheard

As my eyes close forever
to journey anew

Two words mark my passing
a final “Thank You”

(The Book Of Prayers: September, 2022)...

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Ill winds are blowing, things are turning south
It's a sign of the new order, we're all down in the mouth
But there's bright days ahead
Not yet ready for a deathbed
Next election, we'll surely be cleaning house...

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Her diminished and shading features
As if shrouded within a cocoon or now masked
Graduations of colour that death was successively imposing on her motionless features
Dimming her bouquet of red flowers that seem to float away from her...

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Her diminished and shading features 
As if shrouded within a cocoon or now masked
Graduations of colour that death was successively imposing on her motionless features
Dimming her bouquet of red flowers that seem to float away from her...

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Rainfall washing
Light splashes on windowpane…

Leaving nothing behind
No pattern or trace…

If only those tears
Anguishly wept for you…

Upon your deathbed
Had washed away…

Cleansing the pain
That even now abrades my spirit…...

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He
flickers
electric
but fades to dim. 
A sidewalk deathbed,
too cold for this mystic.
Come rest on my wrist angel 
and swallow the wild, night air.
Let my slow stride lead your final waltz,
and in your last breath you will know of love....

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Suicidal?Not me.
I'm perfectly comfortable and free.

I'm not really, I wish I was dead.
I want to be on my deathbed.

I'm fine, perfectly alright.
I'm super, feeling great tonight.

Alone, attempting suicide.Who knew?
No one ~ just you....

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Flat on my back
Heart attack
Never saw it coming
A big smack
I hear a smile
Down a mile
Doom is looming
Hurt awhile
Pain intense
You were so tense
No flower blooming
There’s no sense
She kills
For thrills
The crow crooning
Reading your wills

Russell Sivey...

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Binding red ribbons
around silken syllables

Combing wisdom
from my eyelids

Stroking ashes
from my hair

psalms of our palms
sleeping in each pore

Meet me in death

Do not look
at my hands

Do not kiss
these opaque lips

They are
too old
to forgive

too young
to forget...

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What is a pill?is Is it a murder? A victim of a abuse? Or an experiment?

Is it supposed to help you get out of your deathbed faster or to it?

Is it as fragile as a bomb as if supposed to treat it with care or I can kill myself?

If used to kill someone is it an accomplice?

What is a pill?...

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On her deathbed, her last gasp, I love you,
Holding my mothers hand, I cannot reply,
I could never reply,

We never said those words, we never touched,
So many of us, carry a burden,
I carry this burden,

From a mother to a son, why was I not the one?
From a son to his mother, why was I not the one?

(Stoic)...

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Would time resolve everything
If mine stopped
A silver lining holds me together
Little push and I may leap
Would happiness surround me
If my smile fades forever
A patient prays on his deathbed
Let me live he weeps
Another cries from her warm bed
Take me to the skies
Before the sun rises
I wish to be gone...

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We'll dread
If we're on our deathbed
We'll cry
For we're going to die
That sin
It's a turmoil within
So pale
To feel so very frail
In hours
I'll give you a flower
Suppose
I'll give you a red rose
Last breath
So taste the kiss of death

Track: The Lost Boys - Cry Little Sister
Track: Slipknot - Psychosocial...

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The artist in me myself instinctively tracing 
work a share miseries to inspiration making

Shrouded within my cocoon of slashing brush strokes
lost lovely my Dorothy gently softly releases her yokes

Watching graduations of deaths cold colours on her lovely face
ship me lost anchor my heart lost love no longer in her embrace...

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