Short Posthumous Poems

When you we’re around 
your posthumous belongings
Lost and never found...

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In a magnanimous posthumous gesture
  Noah's been awarded a PhD in ARK-itecture...

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posthumous travels

bending light.... spirits embrace

sanguine souls rejoice...

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Jail realism in upper prison
Quarantine idealism  
Organize posthumous case
Against Aristotle and Plato
Then impose your ideology
Without any ceremony...

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English poet and painter William Drake -
enjoyed little fame in his lifetime, for heaven’s sake.
A BBC’s poll of 100 great artists put him at 38.
Posthumous recognition sadly was his fate....

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SHOULD MY LIFE EXEMPLIFY HOW TO  FIND  THE PATHWAY
   TOWARD MENTAL FREEDOM AND I TRULY, TRAVEL AND EMBRACE A
CHRIST-LIKE UNCONDITIONAL LOVE, AND PURSUE PERFECTION RELENTLESSLY
       AS I WEAR THE GARMENTS OF HUMILITY, THEN LET ME BE PRAISE,
AS I LIVE, RATHER THEN POSTHUMOUS AT MY DEATH..........

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SELF  DEFINITION


          Intellectual ideas hardly define you
          until unless you implement !
          Define yourself on your activity,
          keeping conformity and creativity .
          Proceed and progress never to regress.
          Posthumous prudence may redefine you on refinement....

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What, no applause?

No one told them they were supposed to like your work.

Like Dickinson and Van Gogh

One day your talents will surface

Posthumously, perhaps

Treasures uncovered

Would fate have it any other way?



*Inspired by Brian’s blog and written for his 1 to 8-line poem contest...

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Four dead Jesuits,
now confirmed as child
molesters, but when alive
these monsters’ crimes,
were covered in
obfuscation.

And when they passed,
were the Last Rites recited
and are they buried
in sanctified grounds?

May their rest be as
unrestful as their
victims lives and
and the fitful sleep
of their confessors....

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REDEFINED
    
                    Passing through phases of life,
                    sometimes you are defined,
                    sometimes you are not.
                  Posthumous prudence may redefine you.


  10/26/20

 Original Poem 'Define Yourself' dated 12/28/18

   Liberum Divisa  2 Contest by Gregory R. Barden...

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She runs and withers
Confound it all!
Across she rests
What glaze crosses her eye
How she steals my lips!
The very words behind my throat!
Her envious appearance glances on my shoulder
My logic makes a mockery of me
As thick as thieves my song to she
More decorum post mortem than the living age
A posthumous vision
Beside my tongue
Behind my ears...

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Crowned poet,
posthumous Queen 
of the private world, 
you explored
every subtlety of the soul
and mapped the wonder
of existence 
to its last drawn breath.

What price did you pay
deep in your alabaster chambers,
charting the course 
of a nameless presence 
stretched across eternity, 
giving it a home 
in the exquisite vessel 
of your words....

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Misconstrued meaning
Bentley said ‘Let him have it’ 
Meant hand him the gun

Innocent man hung
Those words will always haunt him
Posthumous pardon

Poem based on the sad case of teenager Derek Bentley who was hung for murder in 1953 - his words convicted him - he did not actually fire the gun


Contest:-Senryu of Being Misjudged – Marvin Celestial
07~12~15...

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Witches fly broomsticks

Avoid the stake

Passionate

Simply 

Hexed


Thrown into water

Float as a crone 

Buoyant life 

Wisdom’s

Truth


Submerged by decree

No hard feelings

Posthumous

Excused

Wrongs


Self-righteous rulers

Concealed drowning

Ignorance

Exposed

Lies


10th May 2020

Contest Diminished Hexaverse

Sponsored by Emile Pinet...

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Fifth June 2021 you passed on to glory
Seven days to your 58th birthday 
Today as the world celebrates 
Your 59th posthumous birthday 
Your legacy of love lives on
Your legacy of charity lives on
Your legacy of forgiveness lives on
One life for Christ was all you had
One life for Christ was so dear to you
He was your strength 
He was your joy
He was your all
Without Him you would have fallen 
Prophet TB Joshua happy birthday!...

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Exiled

Marble and steel walls
Hold firm phantom barred captivity
Knowing but empty space now
Amidst the imagined visitors

How suffocating this lockup
This prison of laser-beamed bondage
Rendering ghostlike existence
Void of its creators touch
Living with but posthumous memory

Passion of suffering
Continues its origin of pain
Shrill its captured moment
Frozen its anguish forever

Living on concealed
The Scream hangs silent
In dark gilded confinement...

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99 per cent of those who come to like my verse will likely not have heard of me while I was still alive...
But...knowing well that finely-metered -- perfect-rhyming poems are mostly what, for countless years, have tended to survive,

I elected, from the start...while Academia cautioned...“Few are keen on cadence, sir…and less are fond of rhyme”... 
To join the ranks of kindred poets...penning what I feel shares the authenticity that’s stood the test of Time....

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Fifth June 2021 you passed on to glory
Seven days to your 58th birthday 
And today as the world celebrates
Your 60th posthumous birthday 
Your legacy of love lives on
Your legacy of charity lives on
Your legacy of forgiveness lives on
One life for Christ was all you had
One life for Christ was so dear to you
He was your strength 
He was your all
Without Him you would have fallen 
Prophet TB Joshua Happy birthday!
May your gentle soul continue to rest in His bosom!...

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