Short Outlive Poems

Would you rather outlive your words
    
     ~ or that your words outlive you...

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Exquisite pain
Outlive those tears
Pictures in rain
Black cruor smears

Dovey Annie...

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Dreams have the tendency to outlive their dreamers because of their immortal nature....

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He outlived his father
 to outlive himself
The shadow he chased
—an ace left undealt

(Dreamsleep: January, 2022)...

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Retirees' number one fear ---
   Will I outlive my money?

Number two, close behind ---
  Will my money outlive me?...

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If everyone can get it 
everyone can give it
the only real concern is
if we can outlive it

John G. Lawless
9/16/2021...

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May you outlive
your favorite authors, 
unless there is 
an updated library
in Heaven; 
Hell has one, 
but you can't use it....

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He taught me why I must try to outlive everybody.
He taught me we all have to rely on at least somebody.
He taught me attunement to the madness of my body....

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W. R. Potter
Brother from another mother
Fellow baseball bat slugger
Could outhit me
Could outspit me
Could outwit me
Could outdrink me
Couldn't outlive me...

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Will any of my poems outlive me?
If so will it be one that I liked?
Sad to think the one that survives is a bad one
I stare at my poems wondering
Which one will survive me?
If any?...

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2021 APPLIANCE BREAK WITHIN 2 YEARS!
1980 Refrigerator: I will outlive you and
everyone you love.
I am eternal. 
I am time itself.
...

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I try to outlive my days,
with the fear of repercussions that might haunt me later on, 
I imagine myself old yet young in a web of my own with boxes of memories refreshing the old times that I had once spun....

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leaving life’s party can’t outlive my stay; pack my soul for the new day

25th December 2018
Competition: The Last Line
Sponsor: Silent One
2nd placement

Contest Brian's Choice 7
Sponsor Brian Strand
HONORABLE MENTION...

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Quatrain #112:
BOLD


Bloom bright and bold as feelings string,
Outlive times cold with form that flings;
Live what unfolds as soul firms poise,
Dream beyond gold love's endless spring.

~~~~~~~~~




Leon Enriquez
23 November 2015
Singapore...

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amazement
     appears
     to outlive
the commonplace
     to exhaust
     in the pre-shock
of existence:
yes,a forfeit
      to float
      unchanged,
discreet
&
sincere
if
    distilled
becomes
a needless
scarcity
'til
swamped again
by
excess...

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A strange thing happens
  once you’re as old as your heroes

The mystery less enchanting
  the romance nearly gone

A stranger thing happens
  when you outlive your heroes

The nuances shouting boldly
   —permission now won

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)...

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Why do some of us
Live longer than others
Why do we outlive
Our younger sisters and brothers

Did they die younger
As they had wiser brains
And us old codgers
Needed to remain

This puzzles me
And causes me concern
Maybe we live longer
As we still have much to learn...

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Love's the gift that keeps on giving,
It really doesn't cost that much.
It's there to share from those who care,
By words, gestures, or healing touch.

Heard loud in hearts throughout the world,
We scurry to its beckoned call.
A gentle sound forever bound,
And will for sure outlive us all....

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Mom’s Bible stories 
my first words inspired to be. . . . 
that Jesus loves me

her best-loved motto -
what’s next to godliness. . . . 
eight kids cleaning up

feasting on Scriptures
strong in mind, body and soul. . . . 
Mom might outlive us

For Francine Robert's 
"Senryu for Mom" Contest...

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seeded in battle
growing amongst the death mass
weep
no longer in grief

blooming blooming high
veiny stem all aglitter
she
will outlive your fray

trusting the true gale
in her dance she instills mirth
cry
for the joys of life


Laura Breidenthal
March 28, 2016
For Mystic Rose’s Split Haiku Contest...

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Peace and plenty,
Orb of fine rays;
Earth feels savvy,
Touch of fond ways;
Incline sure heart,
Calm and surely.
Mind cheery start,
Offer to see;
Voice sparks a trend,
Etchings of art;
Meet and attend,
Echo each part;
Note how things flow,
Thrills outlive show.




Leon Enriquez
22 December 2014
Singapore...

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Live on cloud nine,
Outlive mere dream;
Voice beyond lines,
Intuit fond theme;
Now hurl and fling,
Give soul sure space.
Attend and sing,
Mind beyond face;
Be truth unseen,
Reach beyond time;
One plunge within,
Sound beyond chimes;
Indulge new glimpse,
Appeal floods stream.



Leon Enriquez
28 August 2014
Singapore...

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Can truth exist
  within a vacuum

Can it stand alone
  without listener or teller

Can its words contain value
  left to themselves

Can its verity outlive 
  its many disciples

Can its hope transcend
  all circumstance and change

Can truth given unto itself 
  —exist at all

(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2015)...

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I am a woman, a mature woman 
Time won't let me be,
He keeps bugging me
Always showing his face
Wants me to die in disgrace
I keep fighting him rejecting him
Won't let him win, I am going gracefully 
With dignity, no one can out this fire
Inside of me, I was born to outlive
Myself, my spirit will live on
Forever.I am child of God!!!!...

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I did not raise a son
to die alone
on Flanders field,
his precious life to yield.

I raised a son
to grow in stature,
to stand, mature
at life's rich threshold

not to die 
amid spent bullets.
I raised a son
to outlive me

not to be
one of a thousand
faceless heroes
fallen in a foreign land

I raised my son
to grow into a man....

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