Short One Foot In The Grave Poems

Once one foot into the grave

No more the chance a heart to save

But if a ghost you're not to be

One chance to set a spirit free...

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Told my girlfriend ‘I’m halfway there’
   She figured I was thirty-five…

After she’d done up and married me
   I told her I’ve one foot in the grave
                           ~ yet still alive...

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Old overworked aged heart,
Beating bravely without stopping;
Controlling carefully the rhythm of life,
The terminally ill man holding on dearly,
Amid an attack which can end in tears.
 
Weeping wife beside his bed,
Holding his hands tightly;
Wearily waiting the bad news....

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death's stood in the doorway
but i'm no good with words
so my pleas for mercy
come in the form of
fresh bandages on old wounds
and plastering my vices on greeting cards

though the reaper argues
that if there was any value
in a butterfly whose wings
are pinned to a corkboard
or a soul with one foot in the grave
and the other being fed to wolves
he'd carry his mercy in spades...

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Clank . . . Clank 
Sparks fly for the first time 
across another frigid day 
black chunks with shards of clay 
thrown anger out the way 
 

Softness hardens amid decay 
the midnight's all tucked away 
the red, the grey, the blues still play
with one foot in the grave 
 

Deep below the frost line 
where Lucifer waits alone 
this shovel's getting heavy 
lay down in fields of bone...

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Consuming your words
trim the fat from my waistline
like anorexics

The empty calories
in your words turned my face to shame
like bulimics

Your words like junk food
made  me unhealthy
as the years pass by

My thin darkened skin
wrinkled having no luster
awaits death

Empty calories in your words
took a toll on my soul
crushed my spirit

Now  one foot in the grave
one standing firm in life
I continue to strive...

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Intervals

We live our life,
one foot in the grave.
There are many dangers 
please try to be brave.

Fear dwells in the shadows, 
proceed with care.
Live life to the fullest,
but only if you dare.

All life on Earth, 
will one day perish.
Focus on today,
each moment please cherish.

Yesterday has passed,
tomorrow may not arrive.
Today is right now,
Live like you’re alive.

3/31/2021
Writing Prompt – Cherish – Poetry Contest
Sponsor:  Constance La France...

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