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Headstone Epitaph

Ljdynamic
Dangerous Mind
United States 18awards
Joined 18th Aug 2017
Forum Posts: 374

When She Met Archer

Here lies Miss Challenge Accepted.
“I’ll put the apple on my head.”
is what she said.
Then she hit the floor,
and could say no more.
Looks like fate intercepted.
Written by Ljdynamic
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Yousef_Alfil
Yousef Alfil
Lost Thinker
Malawi
Joined 3rd Oct 2023
Forum Posts: 7

SERENITY FIELDS

 

The howling winds depicts no hurricanes
The sound of rains tapping on the stones is no noise
But a reminder that in the fields,
human silence predominates,
In the fields time stand still and troubles distill
Birds hosts with lullabies to comfort and heal
As flesh decompose, a beetles' meal.

Rest and forget! The world is cruel
The gap is undefined, the bond undescribable
Reading the epitaphs reminds how temporary life is
Holding close to the souvenirs reminds how good yesterday was
Crying for you reminds how chaotic the world can be.

But in the fields is where serenity is
Rest still, freeze till
We shall and we will
These boundaries will fade, be erased
And in that beautiful canopy, a mystery, we will enter
For in it there is a life again and forever.
Written by Yousef_Alfil (Yousef Alfil)
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Rew
Fire of Insight
England 17awards
Joined 30th Sep 2022
Forum Posts: 578

Epitaph

Here lies poor Rew        
A would be poet?      
But still, now I can tell it,      
Rew, rhymes with, you...
Written by Rew
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ajay
Dangerous Mind
Palestine 2awards
Joined 21st Mar 2023
Forum Posts: 2150

MidnightSonneteer
Dangerous Mind
United States 6awards
Joined 13th May 2022
Forum Posts: 487

Cenotaph

The midnight mind roams a midnight path
and surveys the gamut of its glory
be it ever so nice or full of wrath
as hard as stone from the Devil's quarry
which is always useful for crypt and tomb
should you desire lasting epitaphs
or preserve a final nom de plume...
which may elicit lingering laughs
whereby my fans may reliably know
that when poets remain awake at night
they see what the universe has to show,
since darkness betrays all sources of light
and blue diurnal static makes opaque
the boundless beams of a cosmic...
 
          DAYBREAK !!!
Written by MidnightSonneteer
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MidnightSonneteer
Dangerous Mind
United States 6awards
Joined 13th May 2022
Forum Posts: 487

Undercroft

There is no better place to be,  
than at a MIDNIGHT...there or here,  
where awesome shadows let us see,  
the specter...of a SONNETEER !!
Written by MidnightSonneteer
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Rew
Fire of Insight
England 17awards
Joined 30th Sep 2022
Forum Posts: 578

Epitaph

When I'm dead and write no more    
(I guess I'm penned by some full stop)    
have on my tombstone these words scored    
"I lived my rhymes but now, I'm not..."
Written by Rew
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Mstrmnd1923
Thought Provoker
United States 4awards
Joined 2nd Feb 2024
Forum Posts: 194

Tombstone 2..My Epitaph

Here lies my remnants and all that remains      
The remains of my life freed from the chains      
Chains that shackled me to all my mistakes      
Mistakes that left my future in its wake      
     
A future that could have been my life lived      
A life lived that death could never forgive      
Forgiveness answered, I lie here beneath      
Beneath this emptiness where I still breathe      
     
A breath of hope for a new beginning      
A beginning that's now never ending      
Ending my nightmare of terrors and screams      
Screams that were silenced by these lucid dreams  
 
My dreams filled with peace and serenity      
Peace that now consumes my eternity
Written by Mstrmnd1923
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DampKitten
Fire of Insight
United States 3awards
Joined 20th Apr 2024
Forum Posts: 19

Anniversary

 
Every year, it comes  
unbeknownst  
   
that quiet hour of passing  
that date awaiting etching to  
marble memory  
   
and I  
oblivious to finality  
marching, marching, marching,  
my matters to attend  
   
I do not bend  
to notice  
nor pause consideration  
to the end  
   
This graceful anniversary  
shall come reversed  
no wine  
no candles  
and unrehearsed  
 
Written by DampKitten
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DampKitten
Fire of Insight
United States 3awards
Joined 20th Apr 2024
Forum Posts: 19

Forever

 
I’ve lived my life  
as living goes  
and this is what I know…  
   
That flowers wave  
to wind  
   
That branches bend  
and sometimes break  
beneath the weight of snow  
   
That love will come  
and go  
 
Forever has an end  
   
Written by DampKitten
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DampKitten
Fire of Insight
United States 3awards
Joined 20th Apr 2024
Forum Posts: 19

The Death of Poets

 
Is it any wonder how writers,  
even so young -  
their faces tight and bright with sun,  
their eyes agleam -  
how yet they still succumb  
to emptiness?  
 
Their faucets dripping dry;  
an empty sky,  
no air; nowhere to run,  
no thoughts to dream?  
 
Then, let the bullets fly.  
Let blades invade the vital stream.  
Let souls depart.  
 
And in ascension seem  
to find their heart
Written by DampKitten
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jigg82
Thought Provoker
United States
Joined 17th July 2012
Forum Posts: 81

A dream of eternal rest

        I dream oF eternal rest  
Departure from skin
Vision  
forever hinged .
    (In Darkness)
SurrOunded of satin
       And A Rectangle  
      of silence.
blankets  
       of dirt  
and of stones
A pillow  
      for bones.
       A Dusting oF  
once was
A future of past
And a  
story  
To  
an  
End.
Remember
 the best
No worries  
No guess  
I dream of Eternal rest.
Written by jigg82
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wallyroo92
Tyrant of Words
United States 154awards
Joined 11th July 2012
Forum Posts: 1874

Thank you and Good Night


He rhymed like he was running out of time
Trying to leave something worth behind
Something
To remember him by

With memories of love, kindness and empathy
And not just for this epitaph
Just know that
He lived to make others laugh

Thank you and Good Night

Written by wallyroo92
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fianaturie8
Fia Naturie
Tyrant of Words
United States 11awards
Joined 24th Mar 2024
Forum Posts: 172

Headstone

She closed her eyes and smiled for the last time
She lived a life she was meant to and put it to rhyme
Some of it went as plan
Some of it was a mystery out of her hand

When she held you, you knew love
You knew honest emotion
You knew her

She lived a life to make others smile
Even when hers faltered or was hidden from sight
She wants you to remember her for a while

When you feel the warmth of the sun
In a break in the storm
When all is unraveled, and your best intentions are undone
She is holding you to make you smile

That is her (a smile)
Written by fianaturie8 (Fia Naturie)
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Jezkeebs
Twisted Dreamer
1awards
Joined 26th Dec 2019
Forum Posts: 13

Opon a old gravestone

Where I lay, now rambling roses play  
Up Cyprus boughs on summer days  
Amongst autumn leaves and hedgehog trails  
White winter snow laden or sudden hail
To spring flowers nodding in warmer winds
I lie here in deep silence among my kin
Year upon year I will wait for you  
Till one day you'll lay in this garden too
Written by Jezkeebs
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