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Six Feet Under
Where there's a will there's a funeral death is a fact of life a grave undertaking for a mortician and one day some day you and I will wake up dead hopefully the lifetime led was of our own making too late for looking back no regrets and yet it's appalling when we wind up in a winding sheet waiting on that beir aside from six feet under where do we go from...

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Categories: six feet under, death, funeral, grave, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Six Feet Underground
When my friend was a teenager, he started smoking pot. If you're wondering if my friend is still alive, sadly, he's not. The pot that he smoked led him to take worse drugs like Meth. All John cared about was getting high and it caused his death. He started doing Meth and other drugs because they made him get...

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Categories: six feet under, addiction, anniversary, death of
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Six Feet Under the Sea
dead in the ocean with a broken neck ~ a fledgling chick hits the deck dragged down below the waves ~ can angelfish fathom a watery grave By David Kavanagh...

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Categories: six feet under, allusion, death, life, nature,
Form: Monoku
Six Feet Under
Fill my body full of toxins I’m all out of options My heart will soften Throw me in a coffin Your knife will be the final blow For me to go I will die slow Or maybe I will grow From this experience I will be victorious I will prevail I will not fail I’m already six feet under I am not a jumper I can’t satisfy my...

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Categories: six feet under, death, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Six Feet Deep
the way you move the way you talk all captured as photographs the way you laugh the way you cry forever caught as memories but memories and photos are all I have, because between you and me all that remains is a broken friendship your gaze your smile will burn in my mind your name your scent I will never forget in vain for six feet deep you stay forever this...

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Categories: six feet under, absence, angst, black love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Baby Dropped Six Feet On Ground
Your baby dropped six foot to the ground? Head first with no midwife around? She nodded her head. More than enough said. Her new baby giraffe was easily found...

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Categories: six feet under, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Limerick
Covid-19 Blues
sitting in my car in a parking lot, people- watching. Less lonely?...

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Categories: six feet under, loneliness,
Form: Haiku
Six Feet
SIX FEET Six feet under, Still thinking about one thing or the other Judgement day looming behind all I ponder Was the only thing which makes me wonder: The thought of years of blunder And divorce between I and Brenda Is a life dissipated and gone down yonder Which finally and forever tore us asunder A curtain-call through the aid of murder Was sadness and...

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Categories: six feet under, 1st grade, death,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Six Feet
Natures sweet angel has arrived metal eye that doesn't discriminate invisible warrior jousting with a giant slowing the destruction of earth's heart.. David slaying Goliath with sling and rock from the cool-cool lungs of a bramble God We're always six feet from our prayers...

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Categories: six feet under, nature,
Form: Free verse
Six Feet Under
6 Feet under... Six feet under! Six feet under! Six feet under! Oh no! l am not James Dean, l aint going to die whilst the curse of youth is flowing though me like thunder to Thor. Six feet under! Six feet under! Six feet under! Yes l must return to dust my demise hard to escape but the devil...

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Categories: six feet under, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Six Feet Under
I am immune to the pain, the broken bones He said he loves me Yet he beats me “Babes mi promise … mi nah guh hit yuh again…mi love yuh”…words with no meaning I try to leave him but he finds me …I can’t hide My battered body My scarred face My broken soul Is this what love means? I dear not speak because...

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Categories: six feet under, abuse, betrayal,
Form: Blank verse
Six Feet Under
Locked up in a hotel stronghold, dog leash dog pound every nook and cranny downtown don't high tale it to the gutter six feet under in the ground...

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Categories: six feet under, addiction, art, city, death,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Six Feet Deep, Twelve Feet Long, Four Hooves Wide
A stone turned up where no stones turned up where stones turn up, where we dug today... A stone turned up when no stones turned up where stones turn up, when we dug today... Maybe if you saw it with my eyes, and from my cracking heart...Maybe if you held it in my shaking hands, maybe if you saw it through my steaming tears... Maybe if you saw...

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Categories: six feet under, death of a friend,
Form: Free verse
Six Feet Above
Today the earth is pleasant Last night, I slept with the half-moon Looking down to a wary peasant Working so to grab a spoon Today the earth is spherical Tomorrow, I'd be buried six feet above It's a nasty place, but not cynical We always pray to the one above Forever, the earth is generous To...

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Categories: six feet under, africa, cheer up, evil,
Form: Rhyme
Remember Your Six Feet
When you walk gallantly like the Elephant And make gold and silver the clothes you wear to be seen by all men whose life are worthless to You, remember the six feet waiting for you! When all men are nothing to you but mere Grasses you can easily trample upon and make Them weep uncontrollably in the name of...

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Categories: six feet under, art,
Form: Blank verse

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