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The FogIn the early suburb mornings,
Out on the county roads
There is heavy fog in view
It should slow traffic down to a roll.
But that's not always the case,
When there is gloom, that comes into play
It plays...
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Categories:
death of a friend, conflict, confusion, death, death
Form: Prose
One Year Older“I am one year older,” he declares, proud.
Though it is only by two weeks, he leaps
For any opportunity to claim
A victory over his smiling friend.
The joy of childhood is still present
In their...
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death of a friend, best friend, childhood, death
Form: Narrative
Empty shoesWe all have those moments. Moments in life when you know things will never be the same for you. For me that moment was seeing Fred's black Pumas on the stairs after he...
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death of a friend, best friend, death, death
Form: Bio
VanguardDavid sought a vanguard for revolution,
The Black Panthers seemed the perfect solution.
He built them a foundation, it employed his friend,
Until she found fraud and met a quick end.
Betty’s murder raised questions—who and why?
An inconvenient truth...
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Categories:
death of a friend,
Form: Lyric
Autumn RemainsLoyal true friend strong
Leaves descend to the earth cold
Memories of You...
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Categories:
death of a friend, absence, animal, autumn, best
Form: Haiku
Each empty roomI walk into each empty room -
the house you'd lived for years -
although you're gone, I feel you still,
and cannot help the tears.
I sense your presence, that I'd swear,
as though you're watching me;
I turn around...
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Categories:
death of a friend,
Form: Rhyme
The Reports of Her Passingeven heaven’s stars can be misaligned
the reports of her passing greatly exaggerated
a wrong number and evil intent came together
“How is my friend?”
“She died today.”
“When are the funeral services?”
“There won’t be any services!” CLICK
like playing telephone,...
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death of a friend,
Form: Free verse
Sands of SolitudeSilent streams swirl silver shadows deep
Where sorrow's sediment settles, secrets keep
Forgotten fragments of a fractured past
Echoes of emotions that will forever last
Fleeting fingers of fate fan out the sand
As fragile fortunes falter, lost in the...
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death of a friend,
Form: Alliteration
RIP POOH BEAR
I just got some sad news
Which is giving me the blues
My bestie nicknamed pooh bear
Went very far away from here
I can't believe he passed away
From a stroke late yesterday
My friend from the very start
Will always...
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death of a friend,
Form: Rhyme
Running with RexRunning with Rex
I rowed a boat into a lake, to clear my head from feelling addled.
I forgot my big brown dog Rex, but after me he paddled.
A loyal shadow in the water, but my eyes...
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death of a friend,
Form: Lyric
Guns and RosesFinger on the trigger
Hands on the roses
Hands on the gun spewing
Deathly lead
Blood spilled and splashed
In crimson
The life is gone.
One smoking gun
One wreath of roses
Death provoking
Death calming
A rosette of death and
Peace in a duet.
(Written...
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Categories:
death of a friend, death, death of a
Form: I do not know?
Nova wears Heaven's crownmorning meets a nurse of caring
for many years,
an aide who's burying
some unknown fears,
a neighbor's kitten
Nova left strewn
said--bury in--garden
where Pansy's grew-in.
life's roads all lives got
when life forgot and ought not
life's care for lives share
...
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Categories:
death of a friend, abuse, best friend, cat,
Form: Haibun
I'm Just Out For A BitKEY: N-Neighbor
"An armless heart steals the pause that a calming reveals," ... by The Poet
He said his peace then looked at his timepiece
like he's forgotten
supine the sullen skies that spat in his eyes and
smiles with...
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Categories:
death of a friend, appreciation, death of a
Form: Rhyme
Fishes in the riverMy mother my mother
You are the only one I know
I don't have any other person
You raised me from childhood
You took care of me
You feed me when I am hungry
Now you have left me
Your death is...
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death of a friend, 7th grade, death of
Form: Free verse
CATULLUS TRANSLATIONS 4CATULLUS TRANSLATIONS 4
Catullus LXV aka Carmina 65
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Hortalus, I’m exhausted by relentless grief,
and have thus abandoned the learned virgins;
nor can my mind, so consumed by malaise,
partake of the Muses' mete fruit;
for...
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Categories:
death of a friend, brother, death, death of
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Death Of A Friend Poems
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