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"requiem" poems

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My FatherMy father died / from a gun shot wound / to the head

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Requiem For Female DignityUpward-curled, gleam of white / But as yet, something missing / “I swear, I’m quite alright!”

@ben-balserak58

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Unsettled Heartmy whispers, / they float over the currents / braving the undulating waves in our overture...

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The Phoenix And The TurtleLet the bird of loudest lay / On the sole Arabian tree, / Herald sad and trumpet be,

William Shakespeare86

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DaisyAcross the field I strained to see / Caught in the shadows of that old tree / My gaze fell across the field that day

@shawn-white-eagle26

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Requiem for the CroppiesThe pockets of our greatcoats full of barley... / No kitchens on the run, no striking camp... / We moved quick and sudden in our own country.

Seamus Heaney14

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For The Mentor - An AcrosticJust for the case you weren't aware, I did know one that always cared / With me about my woes and separate passions than just those of the / Elm and arts and bark and scream. What else could I need to be

@eddie-crochet12

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EvergreenTempestuous longings from behind the screen of life’s moving picture / You stare back at me, in a glimmering, shimmering afterthought / Laid low by foregoing passion

@sansara-justinovich25

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Surf In A Grey CarWaves roll in, pounding surf / Speeding along below the grey skies. / Spewing shit, screaming screwed songs of sadistic “self-control”

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In All Shades of BlueOf serene eyes that follow gently / the illicit pill she could not let go / it was heavy as the waters pulling her inside

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Thoreau's FluteWe sighing said, "Our Pan is dead; / His pipe hangs mute beside the river / Around it wistful sunbeams quiver,

Louisa May Alcott35

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I Like Hearing You Talk About MozartI like hearing you talk about Mozart / Because it means you’re listening. / His piano keys are no different from mine.

@joyce-garcia70

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Road to Hatheumepale clouds at the summit / water color sky / cattle guard at wood bridge

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Burning riversFlaming bridges up in smoke— / ashes scattered in the wind / Requiem to passing yesterdays;

@jesse-stillwater30

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Requiem Six: Antigone, The HeroineAntigone, the heroine. / I am proud for you, / With your high cheekbones

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In Your PlaceIn your place, / I planted a golden shower. / On the southern border

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A Maytide FuneralLazily, a boy with silvery hairs muttering requiem aeternam / lifts his neck at the piercing radiance skimming off the eyeglasses rim, / and there looms the glory, the spotless sea of blue,

@covenanter163823

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REQUIEM1. / There was the tremor of leaves, / a rustle of bayonet grass

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The Anniversaryfifty years to the day since she walked down this aisle; / The aisle of this church where he stood with a smile. / The organ swells now as the organ swelled then

@john-f-mccullagh20

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In the dead of duskIn the winter you will lie / soul beguiled and rested eye / deathly dreams that dream to die

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GoodnightWhen you walk into the room, / fireworks before me, a ship sinking and yet, / i forget my minds sails to another parallel that swims to deep,

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The Sound Of RainWalking in dim thoughts / with the sound of rain outside. / The dripping pattern takes

@ChrisGVaillancourt58

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Love Of GodHeaven / . . . Have Mercy . . . / Rest, rest, rest, for ye be none,

@christine-ueri90

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"Requeim For a Mockingbird"Envy lies naked on a rose -- / Blindly, on bed; / Tonight, -- we bind to shed

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