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JohnDuffyASY Feb 11
(A lone voice whispers)

As a lost soul-searching for their loved one,
As I still grieve

After ten years

Who crossed the Silver Pond
My question always is

Do people still believe,
there is life beyond

God's
Great Beyond?

(C)
Copyright John Duffy
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (July 8, 1926 – August 24, 2004) was a Swiss-American psychiatrist, a pioneer in near-death studies, and author of the internationally best-selling book, On Death and Dying (1969), where she first discussed her theory of the five stages of grief, also known as the "Kübler-Ross model".[1]
Mica Wood Feb 9
Evanescent ghosts
share sad, glass secrets…
Beauty is transient
and eternity is dark.

Born and broken;
yet we laugh—
Celebrating these
sacred, porcelain selves.
A starry candlelit flames a symphony
Whispering to me a pathway of infancy
By melody's choir of twinkling watchful sight
I wander aimlessly through the darkened night

The stars stitch a celestial array of majesty
Telling my emotions in this tale of travesty
Send me your salvation to heal my wounds
And allow the guides to influence my moons

The vast universe granted its strength to my soul
Now I must bid my farewell to this time, I know
Wishes I made ages ago has finally been granted
By empathic ones of sorrow and the abandoned

The distance between our joined bond
Awaits for me until my final breath's song
May the dust of angel's wings take my hand
And lead me in the gates of my lover's land

Separated by death's cruelty of fate
I received a letter of heavenly gates
It held the hopeful dreams of my dearest ones
Scattered petals upon the grave and succumbs

Touched by death's sharpened blade
I asked for your hand, have you stayed?
Tears streamed down as the sunlight spill
On promises long ago we could never fulfill

Come to me once more tell me when
Make me believe in you and your love again
I trust in your heart lead you back to me
Pity me, or leave me, in depth I now see

Above the expanse of the deep universe
Beneath the watchful eye of fate much worse
I will forever yearn for you in pages of a tome
No matter where you lay and find your home.
About reconnecting with lost love.
Shadows loom where the whispers creep,
Time’s a notion, it's now lost in sleep,
A thirteenth ticking echoes in my mind,
The world keeps turning, but I’m lost behind.

Eternal laughter echoes of a forgotten power,
Darkness descends as the clock strikes the hour,
Countdown second's clicks, in a sinister flair,
Reality’s torn thread, frayed beyond repair.

Thirteenth hour, where real and nightmares blend,
Rapid breath frozen still, as the chimes transcend,
Down in purgatory descends screaming through out
In the echoing chamber, let the horrific truth mount.

Ethereal ones drift and the lost souls roam,
A haunted beat, chorus of the unknown,
The clock strikes dark, beats pulse in fright,
In the twilight zone, comes forth the night.

Hands of fate proceed, as time's face weep,
Feel the tick pulse, the dark runs too deep,
Silhouettes flicker in the midnight's light,
Lost in the rhythm, we dance into the night.

Believing a power of after hours pass by,
Ghosts of the spirit realm give a forgotten cry,
The clock strikes again, hear the thirteenth toll,
In the grip of fear, time will reclaim our soul.

The clock may stop, but we never fade,
In the thirteenth hour, is the grave we made,
Shadows lurking tall, shrinking daylight subside.
In the echoes of time's past, we shall now abide.
WC 219. Dark foreboding poem of the thirteenth Hour The hour of the after realm
Shadows growing long, engulf the air,
Each pivotal moment rings like a bell.
Faces of ages, echoes from beyond,
Calling me home, lost in a dream.

Dreams resting lazily on rocky riverbeds,
Oh, rivers of memories flowing through,
Through time's embrace, they guide my way,
Infinity hands carry and take me there.

You are my beacon, on a raging sea,
Through all of the chaos, no matter how far,
Hold me close, through the stormy tides,
Anchoring souls from becoming lost, adrift.

Enclosed in the night of the fading light,
Every flicker of memory brings back the day.
The ghosts of my past, they want to atone,
Whispers softly a sigh that will never die.

Rocking in the arms of billow waves to shore,
In heavens tapestry, colors array cover me,
Hide me in your starry truth, I’ll forever abide,
After land of my dreams where the dead sleep.
Word count: 149. Poetry of the afterlife. Free verse
Robert Feb 2
Harken ye who stand at deaths door.
Do not fret or worry Anymore.
His touch may be icy, and cold.
But it's filled with love, or so I'm told.
He takes away sarow as well as pain.
A bliss to compare to a summer rain.
He'll take your hand and off you'll go.
The two of you walking toe to toe.
So do not fret or worry in these last moments.
Stand firm at his door, and hand him your two pence.
"Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it" by Haruki Murakami.
The sun burns hot and bright
heat waves distort the light,
where asphalt meets the horizon.

The Santa Ana winds dry the sweat
from my skin before I even have
a chance to perspire.

I head north along the coast, leaving behind
my blustering host.

As rocky cliffs, and pacific breezes sooth my soul.

And tonight as I sleep beneath the stars,
to the sound of the distant cars.

I let my thoughts wander,
Somewhere beyond Jupiter and Mars.

And wonder just when that journey,
might begin.

I'm in no hurry though, for there are miles left
to go.

And that journey will have to wait,
Until this journey ends.
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Enrique Luna Jan 10
Old jewelry rests at the feet of ornate statues
They once had to be painstakingly painted on a canvas
And became real after the painting was burned centuries ago
Everything precious rests in the same place

A beloved cat lost to old age lays on a cushion
While his mother licks at his head attentively
Reunited again after seventeen years
Everything precious rests in the same place

A grandmother once again makes too much food
Even though she knew you couldn't finish it all
You're free to take from the plate again whenever you like
Everything precious rests in the same place

An unfinished medley plays softly in these halls
It would've been the old flutist's last piece
Though he never got the chance to quite perfect it
Everything precious rests in the same place
Been having strange dreams again and woke up teary-eyed with a burning need to write about them.
Christy Jan 8
Till I met you,
I made my own smiles.
But you drew new lines
at the corner of my eyes.  
Each bear your name,
and surprisingly enough,
I don’t mind.
Vain as I am,
it’s been worth it.

Till I met you,
age was a number
just marking the passage of time.
Now I’m acutely aware
each moment you aren’t here.
And how every new day
is one less.

So I let go of the fear
you won’t always be near,
and I’ll pray for an after-life.
One large enough for two
with different points of view
about a heavenly creator.
About a friend who loves someone with a different belief system.
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