Short One Foot In The Grave Poems
Short One Foot In The Grave Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about One Foot In The Grave by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about One Foot In The Grave by length and keyword.
Halfway There
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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Categories:
one foot in the grave, age, girlfriend, grave, life,
Form:
Light Verse
One Foot In the Grave
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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Categories:
one foot in the grave, emotions, old,
Form:
Alliteration
Death In the Doorway
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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Categories:
one foot in the grave, angst, extended metaphor, grief, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
Below the Frost Line
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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Categories:
one foot in the grave, dark, death,
Form:
Imagism
Empty Words
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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Categories:
one foot in the grave, depression, health, life, sadwords,
Form:
Free verse
Intervals
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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Categories:
one foot in the grave, life,
Form:
Rhyme