backdeckbenny
Poem Published
17th Jan 2025 11:23pm
17th Jan 2025 11:23pm
Memento Mori
Some of us will wear black soon
Some will forever lie still
Got nothing to do with a deity
Got nothing to do with God's will
It's simply the way that life happens
It's not in any God's scheme
Death forces eyes to stay open
To witness this life is a dream.
Some will forever lie still
Got nothing to do with a deity
Got nothing to do with God's will
It's simply the way that life happens
It's not in any God's scheme
Death forces eyes to stay open
To witness this life is a dream.
#death
#TruthOfLife
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randyjohnson
Poem Published
17th Jan 2025 5:11pm
17th Jan 2025 5:11pm
Uecker
Many people are sad because he's no longer here.
Forty years ago, I watched him on Mr. Belvedere.
He played baseball and was a sportscaster as well.
Uecker became a success, he certainly did not fail.
If you're wondering if Bob was talented, the answer is yes.
It shouldn't come as a surprise to you that he was a success.
Uecker proved to the entire world that he could act.
He helped to make Mr. Belvedere a hit and that's a fact.
Forty years ago, I watched him on Mr. Belvedere.
He played baseball and was a sportscaster as well.
Uecker became a success, he certainly did not fail.
If you're wondering if Bob was talented, the answer is yes.
It shouldn't come as a surprise to you that he was a success.
Uecker proved to the entire world that he could act.
He helped to make Mr. Belvedere a hit and that's a fact.
#death
#nonfiction
#sports
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1 Comment
Poeticking81
Poem Published
16th Jan 2025 9:30am
16th Jan 2025 9:30am
This poem is called Child Murder
My name's sky I'm three,My eyes are swollen.I can't see,I must be stupid.I must be bad,What else could have made my daddy so mad?I wish i were better i wish i weren't ugly,Then maybe my mommy would still want to hug me.I can't do wrong i can't speak at all or else i am lockup all day long.When i am awake i am all alone.The house is dark my folks aren't home.When my mommy does come home.I'll try and be nice,so maybe i will just get one whipping tonight.I just heard a car,my daddy's back from charlies bar.I hear him curse.My name's called,I press myself against the wall.I try to hide from his...
#death
#father
#murder #son
#murder #son
79 reads
2 Comments
darkcloud68
Poem Published
16th Jan 2025 3:58am
16th Jan 2025 3:58am
Dust In My Eyes
I say I have dust in my eyes, so my visions blurry. So I see tinted covered rainbows and black snow.
Black doves and a sky filled with black crows. I am at the heel of the world, I had a issue with God so I got low. Sell dope and coke wholesale like Costco.
. Narcotics blue steel narcos. The streets I move on, is filled with beef and red sauce like tacos. If ain't got, don't worry about it. I know cat name Flaco.
They say why did you choose this life. I say because I have dust in my eyes, and I don't know who I can trust in a world full of lies.
...
Black doves and a sky filled with black crows. I am at the heel of the world, I had a issue with God so I got low. Sell dope and coke wholesale like Costco.
. Narcotics blue steel narcos. The streets I move on, is filled with beef and red sauce like tacos. If ain't got, don't worry about it. I know cat name Flaco.
They say why did you choose this life. I say because I have dust in my eyes, and I don't know who I can trust in a world full of lies.
...
#death
#fate
67 reads
1 Comment
backdeckbenny
Poem Published
15th Jan 2025 10:49pm
15th Jan 2025 10:49pm
Unconditional
I'm dying and I'm happy.
I lie on the bed watching the rain through the window as it greets the trees,the ground,my home.
It says hello to each in a slightly different voice but not with different amounts of love.
I'm dying and I'm happy.
The rain makes it so.
And
Now it gently whispers
That it's time for me to go.
I lie on the bed watching the rain through the window as it greets the trees,the ground,my home.
It says hello to each in a slightly different voice but not with different amounts of love.
I'm dying and I'm happy.
The rain makes it so.
And
Now it gently whispers
That it's time for me to go.
#death
#happiness
#rain
47 reads
3 Comments
Kaden_Malis
Kaden Malis
Kaden Malis
Poem Published
11th Jan 2025 4:06pm
11th Jan 2025 4:06pm
Every now and then
Tears still fall
Memories fade
But I can still see your face
Every now and then
Burning bright
We'd slay this world
At seventeen
The future was too far away
To get in our way
But time had different ideas
Cruel to the heart
And sorrow to the soul
Tearing loose, leaving holes
Now I'm lost in the present
And you're stuck in the past
Frozen against your will
Fate forever sealed
Tears still fall
Memories fade
But I can still see your face
So I cling to the future ...
Memories fade
But I can still see your face
Every now and then
Burning bright
We'd slay this world
At seventeen
The future was too far away
To get in our way
But time had different ideas
Cruel to the heart
And sorrow to the soul
Tearing loose, leaving holes
Now I'm lost in the present
And you're stuck in the past
Frozen against your will
Fate forever sealed
Tears still fall
Memories fade
But I can still see your face
So I cling to the future ...
#death
#despair
#emptiness
#heartbroken
#sadness
61 reads
5 Comments
adagio
Poem Published
10th Jan 2025 3:42pm
10th Jan 2025 3:42pm
Excerpts - with Lilliputian
Lonely nights under anesthesia
my obsession with death...
will you be mine?
to wish me on my way
with a eulogy echoing
blessing my soul
taken by a touch of demise
beneath the mangrove
resting my mind
inhaled by the dusk
a divine light that blinds
to quiet the heartbeats
songs are beautiful
but lyrics deceive
by contemporary poets
of excerpts in a final breath
my obsession with death
lonely nights under anesthesia
my obsession with death...
will you be mine?
to wish me on my way
with a eulogy echoing
blessing my soul
taken by a touch of demise
beneath the mangrove
resting my mind
inhaled by the dusk
a divine light that blinds
to quiet the heartbeats
songs are beautiful
but lyrics deceive
by contemporary poets
of excerpts in a final breath
my obsession with death
lonely nights under anesthesia
#collaboration
#dark
#death #philosophical
#death #philosophical
131 reads
2 Comments
adagio
Poem Published
7th Jan 2025 11:36pm
7th Jan 2025 11:36pm
Dark Water Whiskey - with Lilliputian
Of whiskey dark waters, a handful of earth
dew on the rose with the coldest of blues
with a chorus of voices and silent prayer
Echoes of whispering rumble from within
in a euphoric choir silenced from a rapture
to close your eyes and awaken specters
Ecstasy suffusing the flesh with a kiss
breathing in your soul with the coldest
of blues and whiskey dark waters
dew on the rose with the coldest of blues
with a chorus of voices and silent prayer
Echoes of whispering rumble from within
in a euphoric choir silenced from a rapture
to close your eyes and awaken specters
Ecstasy suffusing the flesh with a kiss
breathing in your soul with the coldest
of blues and whiskey dark waters
#collaboration
#death
#philosophical
103 reads
2 Comments
Secret_poet
Poem Published
6th Jan 2025 7:46pm
6th Jan 2025 7:46pm
Unwanted Double Date
Another year, the calendar turns,
Still silent, where your laughter learns
To echo in the empty air.
Today, a birthday,oh, the joy you'd share,
A happy day, you're two...bright new start,
But grief still tightly, clenches to my heart.
December eighth, a dreaded double date,
Your birth and your death, a cruel, harsh fate.
A life unborn, a future grim,
A world you never entered in.
No childhood joys, no sunlit days,
Just shadowed years, and the tear-filled haze.
My heart, a bird with broken wings,
Still flutters at the...
Still silent, where your laughter learns
To echo in the empty air.
Today, a birthday,oh, the joy you'd share,
A happy day, you're two...bright new start,
But grief still tightly, clenches to my heart.
December eighth, a dreaded double date,
Your birth and your death, a cruel, harsh fate.
A life unborn, a future grim,
A world you never entered in.
No childhood joys, no sunlit days,
Just shadowed years, and the tear-filled haze.
My heart, a bird with broken wings,
Still flutters at the...
#death
#grief
#IMissYou
#loneliness
#sadness
122 reads
4 Comments
I_IS_ME
Poem Published
5th Jan 2025 7:50am
5th Jan 2025 7:50am
Broken Toys
#dark
#death
#dirty #erotic
#dirty #erotic
162 reads
11 Comments
3Y3S-THVT-S33
Electra
Electra
Poem Published
2nd Jan 2025 4:09am
2nd Jan 2025 4:09am
No Title.
I ran from the burning stones,
For it had never felt like home.
I ran till I found a place to lay my bones,
I found a home,
Resting alone,
No light to expose its ruins.
I let my flame touch its torches,
But instead, I set the home on fire,
And as I watched it burn,
The words in my head turned:
Child of ember,
You can never escape the ashes.
For it had never felt like home.
I ran till I found a place to lay my bones,
I found a home,
Resting alone,
No light to expose its ruins.
I let my flame touch its torches,
But instead, I set the home on fire,
And as I watched it burn,
The words in my head turned:
Child of ember,
You can never escape the ashes.
#dark
#death
#denial #fire
#denial #fire
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toniscales
Lost Girl
Lost Girl
Poem Published
29th Dec 2024 10:57pm
29th Dec 2024 10:57pm
To My Mother at New Year's
On the phone, my father
urges me to remember you.
I remember your anger,
the luminous swell
of your outdated,
blond beehive;
your cold opulence,
how everything you touched
turned beautiful.
How you smelled of Giorgio,
the gorgeous handwriting
on your envelopes.
In every room,
an elegant vase of flowers,
petals and ivy descending
in perfect patterns;
luxurious dresses
you created yourself.
How I could never fit
into your constellations
of perfection...
urges me to remember you.
I remember your anger,
the luminous swell
of your outdated,
blond beehive;
your cold opulence,
how everything you touched
turned beautiful.
How you smelled of Giorgio,
the gorgeous handwriting
on your envelopes.
In every room,
an elegant vase of flowers,
petals and ivy descending
in perfect patterns;
luxurious dresses
you created yourself.
How I could never fit
into your constellations
of perfection...
#death
#grief
#love
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