Tag: death
group name: poetryfortoday
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September 25, 2008 09:54 PM EDT --
I am reposting this one because I just can't seem to get anyone to read it. I am hoping the third time truly is the charm
I cried a tear this morning
When I woke and you weren't there . . .
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October 05, 2007 03:50 PM EDT --
Sometimes she sits and broods
And knows the darkly moods
Will pull her down
And let her drown
In memories unlocked
From dark rooms. Nothing blocked
From the sad days and hours.
All this . . .
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December 23, 2007 02:36 AM EST --
They'll say that God had need of her
Before her time,
That angels sought her company
For beauty's sake
In mind or soul,
That stars will shine far brighter
In the night of all their dread . . .
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May 30, 2008 03:31 AM EDT --
It all began with
Sinatra singing
From a radio
In the corner of
The room and Donna's
Fat husband, Joey
Singing along with
The voice, making an
Awful sound, like cats
In a sack . . .
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October 08, 2007 03:41 AM EDT --
And so it came about
That he had doubt
About her fidelity;
The guys she saw,
The way she swung her hips
And tossed her head,
And he’d beat her some,
Until he was sure,
It’d all been some . . .
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December 10, 2007 05:55 PM EST --
She had been there and touched it all
The grey shawl
Of her mother, put aside
Like a shroud to hide
The aging skin of her last days
And her awkward ways
And memory loss. She smelt
The scent . . .
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May 30, 2008 04:16 AM EDT --
And she crossed the room
Hoping the baby
Would be there, and that
Maybe she got it
Wrong those months ago
And that the cot would
Be full again with
Sound and movement and
That baby chuckle . . .
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January 05, 2008 05:21 AM EST --
That aspect had all gone now.
All was left was the showy parts
That others were allowed to see.
She knew he wouldn't have changed
Or have seen her different than he had;
Some things never changed . . .
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May 01, 2008 07:07 AM EDT --
They all lied.
Her father
Who thought he
Was God's gift
Lied; her sick
Mother who
Only had
Two months to
Live also lied,
Her boozy
Big Brother
And his loose
Lover Lied; . . .
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August 23, 2007 02:40 PM EDT --
She didn't look so beautiful in black.
Her paleness showed a lack
Of want or gift withdrawn.
Her longed for baby born
Too soon and died
Much sooner. She cried
For days in darkened places;
Saw sadness . . .
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February 22, 2007 11:39 PM EST --
Derek Anthony Beall
April 24, 1989 - February 16, 2007
In the early morning hours of Friday, February 16, 2007 my 17-year-old son reached the agonizing conclusion that whatever problems . . .
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May 24, 2008 04:30 AM EDT --
Eva looks in pensive mood,
What thoughts she has we cannot
Guess or if we did be wide
The mark or do not justice
To her tender age, she folds
Her arms in defiant stance,
As if to say, I won't . . .
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June 03, 2008 07:23 AM EDT --
Makemkov had a sudden
Thought while sitting on his bed,
Having a smoke, gazing out
Of the window at the new
Apartments across the way,
Where some young dame was slipping
Into something light . . .
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November 21, 2007 03:02 PM EST --
One of those darkly days
And icy feels, black moods or dying greys
Overwhelm and touchy sense
Of emptiness and love’s dispense
Take me out or tuck me in
Sleep’s frigid sin.
Feel the . . .
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April 24, 2008 03:28 AM EDT --
The baby was her first,
The first she had held;
Held so close to her breast,
Sensed the little hand
Reach out and touch,
Felt the tiny fingers
Tickle the teat; smelt
The baby smell,
. . .
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January 08, 2007 04:44 AM EST --
I Will remember You
You walked into my life so long ago, my dear cousin,
my dear friend. I never thought about the end.
I will remember you.
Your beautiful eyes and lifting smile.
All the . . .
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April 10, 2008 02:41 AM EDT --
You know you'll never tell them
The true aspect of war;
Never reveal the sights you saw:
The men, women and children dying,
The colour of blood on your uniform
Not your own; the change . . .
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April 12, 2008 03:39 AM EDT --
Before baby died,
Before the drawn out
Requiem mass her
Husband insisted
Upon; before the
Dark dreadful nights of
Staring at the still
Empty cot with pink
Blankets and white bows;
. . .
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December 10, 2007 08:31 AM EST --
It was her last chance
To see her child
Before they took it away
Limp and lifeless in their arms,
White robed, sullen
As if death bedded them
Like a lousy lover.
She held and kissed
The soft . . .
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