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Category: Death
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Category: Death

. Contemplative / Death / Life / Metrical / Rhyme
No falling tears

No falling tears

Each day a knife walk, life and death, Step left to die or right to breath. My time will come …

 #Jim Loft #life and death
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. Mystical / .Lonesome / Death / Metrical / Rhyme
Emily’s Last Words

Emily’s Last Words

“I must go in, for the fog is rising,” breathed out that pen we love so well, as she upon …

 #David L. Hatton #death #Emily Dickinson #fog #metaphor
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. Contemplative / Change / Death / Legend / Metrical / Nature / Rhyme
On the Wings of a Fly

On the Wings of a Fly

In the flower that wilts by the pane looking out On the garden that nurtured its bud; In the carrion …

 #decomposition #ecosystem #regeneration #Sarah van der Pas
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. Contemplative / Death / Metrical
pre-Exodus From Skin

pre-Exodus From Skin

Oh, how a young man’s thoughts still reign in tired bones and soul of dust. Will you remain thru silver …

 #dying #Randy Faria #transition #youth
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. Pensive / Death / Metrical / Rhyme
lines written upon urra moor

lines written upon urra moor

​Old God was too much with us. Quietly we wander through the moss-knolled, sodden peat upon the trackless and the …

 #Christie Florit #doubt #God #sonnet #wander
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. Pensive / Death / Metrical / Rhyme
Behind Death’s Door

Behind Death’s Door

When leaf has fallen withered from the tree, and night’s dark hand has swept aside the day. When lips are …

 #afterlife #Anthony Shacknofsky #death #sonnet
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. Pensive / Death / Metrical / Rhyme
as the sleepers

as the sleepers

​ I would that I were with those dead there in their restful deep, were still my bones in earthen …

 #abandoned #Christie Florit #grave #lonely #sonnet #terza rima
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. Contemplative / . Peaceful / Death / Hope / Life / Metrical / Rhyme
Since Death Forgot to Take Me

Since Death Forgot to Take Me

Since death forgot to take me I’ll wile the earth away, And chase things that forsake me, And smile at …

 #adventure #beauty #Bruce Wren #death #life
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