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Vitae Poems - Poems about Vitae

Curriculum Vitae
I’m a servant of the universe My rank is junior minder. I care for the solar system As its oiler and winder. Everything is done To a very strict rota, Checking every cog And cleaning every motor. The star has its thermostat Rigidly checked and set Its fuel delivery schedule Very rigorously met. Each planet has its key Kept on its own ring So I can check...

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Categories: vitae, career, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Elixir Vitae
cow bells ring through verdant hills rolling up to cuddle towering gray cliffs spraying white foam intoxicating Alps where Frankenstein concocted Elixir Vitae and birthed a monster rich red wine and a pot of fondue on a cafe terrace jagged tip of the top of Europe peeking through the fluff hugging its head and shoulders stunning monster the Alps Elixer Vitae for an old soul...

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Categories: vitae, life, love, travel,
Form: Free verse



My Incomplete Curriculum Vitae
Categories: vitae, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Principium Vitae
A labor of love Frequent contractions Bloody show appears Belly and back pain Her water breaks now The baby drops Loosened-up joints Cervix dilates Cramps are intense Nauseous mom Start the drugs Feeling great Bear down Push out Birth May 18, 2022 **Side note: John Gondolf read my first Diminished Hexaverse poem about the end of life (Finis Vitae) and suggested that I write one about the beginning...

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Categories: vitae, baby, birth, body, life,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse
Finis Vitae
The end has now come Once lucid eyes dulled Shallow breaths begin Food and drink have ceased Sleep is now constant Bowels shut down Pulse becomes faint Bluish-hued skin Grimace of pain Eyes roll back Body cools Moans softly With love Speaks name Gone May 15, 2022 **Side note: This was my first experience with writing a Diminished Hexaverse poem. I thought it was a fun challenge. I...

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Categories: vitae, body, change, death, grief,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse



Medium Vitae
What is the value of faith without doubt Love without hatred, peace without routs What is the meaning of joy without pain Words without silence, sun without rain Into the middle both sides fall within Dimension redundant, all endings begin The yin and the yang the long and the short When hands clasp together —right left to import (The New Room: December, 2021)...

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Categories: vitae, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Curriculum Vitae
She calls herself Bunny Boucher, but she was born Veronica Chermak. She’s tall and leggy with a body that looks tidy, yet lived in. She’s high and tight, but flexible like a strong rubber band in a tricked out pinball table. She reminds me of that actress Tracie Lumbar playing the actress Fern Hall in...

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Categories: vitae, sensual,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Lux Vitae Lux
"LUX VITAE LUX" Here you stamp your mark of approval or not We meet at the point where a Father is the judge of what is good and what is not. And we try so hard to avoid heart contact over all the plundering words said light and dark yet we open minds that chance by our trials to believe in something bigger - Ours in hours kangaroo courts turn...

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Categories: vitae, light, love, muse,
Form: Free verse
Carpe Vitae Enjoy Life
Whatever you are given, appreciate... Do not pass through the field ...

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Categories: vitae, allusion, appreciation, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Spiritus Vitae
Short in stature, long in fight, the zealot stood his ground The odds unfavored, no end in sight, victory still unfound The daylight haunting, the body count, the field a sea of blood A bugle blowing for one last charge, advancing through the mud With force depleted but spirit whole, his voice heard far and wide… “Into the jaws of certain death —for glory now we ride” (Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2020)...

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Categories: vitae, war,
Form: Rhyme
Defensione Vitae
The only defense against fate is words The only answer to death —is life (Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2018)...

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Categories: vitae, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lux Vitae Love Stories of the Fey: In the Clouds
Lux Vitae Love Stories of The Fey: “In the Clouds” “What are you looking at Mum?” “They come in the clouds you know”, she said to her daughter “Every night, the same time, the numbers seem to grow, see there! Up in the Clouds above the water”. (Sydney Harbour) The girl looked up with hesitation and fright, It was New Year’s...

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Categories: vitae, adventure, fairy, fantasy, journey,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Intermission: Ad Infinitum Lux Vitae
"Intermission: Ad Infinitum Lux Vitae" Intermission I wait You call I have loved I wait Lux Vitae I have loved Through the Storm Lux Vitae I have loved, to love You more Through the Storm You call, Open Door I have loved, to love You more Ad Infinitum You call, Open Door I walk with You through the Storm Ad Infinitum My Love is always Yours You walk with me through the Storm The...

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Categories: vitae, birth, cancer, courage, daughter,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Lux Vitae
"LUX VITAE" (A Christmas Poem for Georgia) Golden Light guide her Home Surround her with your Love Give her Courage to always find Faith in you Sacred One Place your hand in hers as she walks her lonely twisting foggy Road Close her ears from all false talk to Trust her heart and voice alone Stand beside her when she fears Annointed with...

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Categories: vitae, absence, daughter, god, love,
Form: Free verse
Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae I was born [so they say] in the usual way. my mum was of the female persuasion, [My father was not] but I can't say a lot, for I've totally forgot the occasion. We all lived in a box, which once held Dior frocks, by the side of the furious M6. Although poor, I'm no fool, and I went to...

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Categories: vitae, humor, mum,
Form: I do not know?

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