Short Eternal Rest Poems

Death eternal rest
Eyes forever veiled from thee
Love, Again we meet...

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Will you ever know, how,
breadcrumbs from your table, love
and a sigh in your sleeping breath
bear me beyond life’s tempests
in arms as heavens eternal rest?...

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One night in March 
She was kneeling down to pray 
She asked the Father to help guide her along the way 
In Jesus she found her haven of rest 
Eternal peace and eternal rest...

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Pierce lightly this pulsing wrist,
chaser of needing night replenish

allow me . . .
a farewell to eternal rest
in peace

allow me . . .
a last kiss to he
who is unmindful of this heart.

Now take me....

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Forget your dreams
and wash away feelings
and put all hope
to eternal rest.
Erase happy memories,
learn to not remember,
and think no more
of sun filled days.
Laugh away tears,
lose your sane ideas,
and stop wishing for
lack luster fun....

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Pain Concealed,
deceived I feel
I rage silently
In this cage
which doesn't exist.

Eternal rest
No lifes' regrets

Death before 
blind hope,
no chance
for me left.

I feel.
Therefore,

Alive,  I rest.

David J. Caldera
03/23/08...

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The Toy Chest
Where the Toys are, We love the best
In which, We play with, being of Earnest zest
For they, over the Others, had passed the Test
Making Us, an Interest, in them, decide to invest
Upon retiring them, to the box, for Eternal rest...

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I write upon the sand
With an unseen pen,
Making my mark on eternity.
I live day by day,
Etching out a living,
And seeking out the best.


Eternal rest
Comes in forgiving
Along the way.
Thus, receiving serenity,
Every now and then
Forever take my stand....

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Mother said she was getting weary,
And wanted to be at rest.
But God saw her work unfinished,
And kept her 'til He thought it best.
Now her work has been done,
A race well run,
The troubles of the world will cease.
She deserves the best, of eternal rest,
Sleep on in Heavenly Peace...

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For a blue
So  bountiful
You bow down
Before it

To the Master 
Blender of
This endless 
Blanket

Of blue light.

A soul's ascent
To a starry sky
Stops short 
Of con-

Summation
Clouds 
Become
An eternal rest

Reward by 
The Cloud-
Master
For life  

Lived best....

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In the silence, shadows creep,
Life's journey ends, we fall asleep.
A timeless slumber, deep and still,
Death's mystery, a solemn thrill.

Like fading stars in the endless night,
We leave this world, take our flight.
A chapter closed, a final breath,
In the dance of life and death....

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I have come to hate the walls that keep me warm. They are filled with faces,
clocks, and trees that have become foreign. Almost a false image to an unbeknownst world. As the steady hand traces the marks of space and time, we are left with wrinkles and wisdom. The stretch for eternal rest brings peace....

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In a slow, venomous infusion,
No trace was left to find.
The heart's rhythm started fading,
As the final breath escaped the nostrils,
The body lay there, motionless,
Pain drifting into distant realms.
In silence, unheard and unseen,
Eternal slumber commenced,
A rest from which there is no return....

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Coming Home


My life has been generously peppered with love.
Like a glorious, Midwest snowstorm, sprinkled by God, above.

I have no idea, why, on this earth, I was so richly blessed.
But, I’d like to return to my heavenly home now,  for eternal rest.



                               12/2/2021...

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Mrs. Curry waddled down school corridors,
Frightening children escaped from class~ 
Oh,my!nSuch dangerous marauders!
As she walked, earthquake faults cracked the walls.
Good riddance to her Titanic,bowling ball breasts, 
Take those gazongers with you to your divine eternal rest.

Panagiota Romios
4/22/2019
11:30 pm...

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Death my old friend, I welcome you like an old friend. 
Young at first now an old man, I open my home and heart and welcome you you in.
So you bony spirit with the hellfire eyes take my weary soul.

Guide my gently into good night, cross the dark water to the gate of Hade's home, as I take my place in the underworld and eternal rest....

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Buy your coal mine canary
From Ivanka's Canary Shop
You'll know you bought a bargain
When it does The Canary Flop

Tomahawk missile launches
Ensure a mining boom
So canary songs can linger
Like when Elvis left the room

So buy your coal mine canary
(Ivanka's are the best)
Knowing birds and colliers
Shall find eternal rest!...

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how precious was this babe born too early
smaller than her mother’s hand
now she rests in God’s hands

she never met her earthly family
but in heaven they’ll unite
they will see her sweet face

now she’s blessed with angelic companions
who sing and offer her love
in her eternal rest


*Written May 26, 2014...

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This life is not give and get

Karma is a lie

I thought I could take any hit

But when you said goodbye

It knocked me on my ass

I couldn't bear the thought 

Of you being in the past

So for so long I've fought

But god is unjust

He rewards only the best

All have betrayed my trust

Tis time I lie down for my eternal rest...

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God saw you getting tired
When a cure was not to be
So he wrapped his arms around you 
And whispered "come to me"

You didn't deserve what you went through
So he gave eternal rest
God's garden must be beautiful
He only takes the best

And when I saw you sleeping
so peaceful and free from pain
I could not wish you back
To suffer that again...

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I wandered among the ancient stones,
Remembering generations of ancestors
Laid to their eternal rest in this field
Their bodies returned to dust, their spirits
Soaring hither and yon for eons of infinity
In a never-ending, ethereal paradise
From whence no return to this temporality
As far as we know has ever taken place.


written June 4, 2021...

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The snow falls lightly over my shoulders

Acting as my shadow.

It allows me to walk the night

Invisible.

The snowflakes fall on my face

Sending shivers through me

Leaves me freezing.

I wrap my arms around myself

And stand beneath the light pole.

Waiting for eternal rest, 

from this cold feeling brushing my shoulder.

death....

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as i lie here and wait for the icy embrace of death to take me . i can hear a serephin song that calls to me like the siren songs from the days of old. beckoning me to my eternal rest . my soul feels like a caged bird with broken wings that has been set free , and has felt the wind in my wings for the first time . now i can soar across the skies once more ....

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The conversation we never finished
lies heavy on my mind,
as heavy as the cold stone
that covers the place you must sleep.
Our musings are forever now postponed.
Why did the Fates not weave our love as one?
Time has come and swiftly flown;
Fate has cut the threads,
Alabaster angels fold their wings and weep,
While stone cold marble marks eternal rest....

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Beating heart was ripped from my chest,
So no matter what I must eternal rest.
My love has died, my light gone out
My poems of joy I no longer shout
Cold the grave, of my missing heart
So very cold, so many worlds apart
Like a corpse, I just sit and rot 
Never to move from this very spot
Here I will say, forever more
Without my heart, that out was tore....

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