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My Father’s Rose – More Than Just a Flower

April 18, 2019April 18, 2019 John Hansen 44 Views 4 Comments death, father, memories, Rose, supernatural, yellow rose

The Story Behind My Father’s Rose My wife and I bought a rose bush for my father for his birthday

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Fair Thee Well

April 3, 2019April 3, 2019 Vincent Moore 89 Views 10 Comments abyss, death, life, poetry, sorrow, Vincent Moore

Fair Thee Well … He’ll soon be gone,

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The Darkness Stirs

January 27, 2019January 27, 2019 Paul Neglia 213 Views 10 Comments anger, death, funeral, Loneliness, sadness

The Darkness Stirs … I think of loss as the pinnacle of empathy The tears flowing that descend as coping

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All soldiers die in battle

December 3, 2018December 3, 2018 EdF 136 Views 1 Comment battles, broken soldiers, death, life, soldiers die

If not on the morning of battle with the scent of burned cordite still in the air then when we

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Deathly Dialog

November 15, 2018November 15, 2018 Paul Neglia 189 Views 8 Comments abyss, death, deathly dialog, descents, fighting, love

Deathly Dialog … Staved off, these superfluous descents into the abyss, Yet into the bitter lapse of everyday life, I

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Happenings In Stages

August 24, 2018 Vincent Moore 235 Views 8 Comments aliens, death, humans, infections, plagues, Vincent Moore

Hesitated pressing the publish button with this piece of fiction, it came to me as a dream

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You Linger Still

August 20, 2018September 7, 2018 Vincent Moore 205 Views 4 Comments death, eternity, grave, linger, spirit, tomb

You Linger Still … You linger still, but who will read

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As the Years Comply

August 18, 2018August 19, 2018 Tony DeLorger 164 Views 4 Comments aging cycle, death, heredity, infinite soul, poem, years

The years comply to the rhythm of my slow fading, the subtle changes that mark the decline of health, those

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I Wish I Were, But I Am

August 10, 2018 Tony DeLorger 153 Views 4 Comments belonging, death, perspectives, poem, understanding eternity, wish

I wish I were a leaf, swept up in the warm embrace of a breeze, and from there what I

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Dreamscape of brother angel

August 6, 2018August 7, 2018 EdF 207 Views 3 Comments Angels, brothers, death, dreamscape, loss, nightmares

Dreamscape of brother angel … I slept fitfully at first and yet in the deep throws of night a dream

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The Death Of The Sea

April 22, 2018April 22, 2018 EdF 187 Views 4 Comments death, depths, forgiven, life, listen, return, saving, the sea

The sea will tell us its tale … We came from the depths of the sea my son one day

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Voodoo Dolls

April 19, 2018April 19, 2018 Paul Neglia 495 Views 8 Comments death, pain, puppets, under someone's control, voodoo dolls

Voodoo Dolls…puppets and all… It’s understood the cloths of fate Were cut, addressed and sought to sate. No one believed

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River Of Tears

March 31, 2018 Kurt James 1055 Views 10 Comments death, kurt james, kurt james author, life lesson, Regrets, River of tears, time. lessons

We all have regrets in life which feed the river of tears. When someone passes away that you have had

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Life and Death

March 16, 2018March 16, 2018 John Hansen 567 Views 8 Comments birth, death, dying, experiences, life, living

Life and Death Let’s talk about life and death and everything in between First, we are born, naked and helpless.

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In Davy Jones’ Locker

February 27, 2018February 27, 2018 Tony DeLorger 378 Views 2 Comments aftermath, Davy Jones, death, locker, poem, storm/shipwreck

The waves crash relentlessly upon the shore, jagged rocky outcrops, barnacles and green hair tossed in white foamy forays, thundering,

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A Final Song

February 25, 2018February 25, 2018 Nathan Bernardo 265 Views 3 Comments death, embark, freedom, nothing more, song, soul

A Final Song I embark like I have so many times before. I spark the brain cell but there’s only

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Thundering Hoofs and Four Horsemen

January 27, 2018January 27, 2018 Phyllis Doyle Burns 359 Views 6 Comments death, famine, four horsemen, pestilence, thundering hoofs, war

Thundering Hoofs … Hear the thundering hoofs and the four horsemen, Mounted on steeds of white, red, black, and pale,

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Attrition

January 24, 2018January 27, 2018 Paul Neglia 344 Views 8 Comments death, horrors, life, sanity, war

Attrition I. Battlefield Abject silence was the tormenting anxiety, as stillness ripples its way through the ravaged square. A cold

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An escape of the soldiers kind

December 28, 2017August 14, 2018 EdF 339 Views 5 Comments bloodied soldiers, death, loved ones, pity, Soldiers death, wrath

Escape of the soldiers kind Words reach silently from the bloodied soldier his lips forming thoughts of death his dreams

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Invest in Life, Each Day May Be Our Last

December 18, 2017 Tony DeLorger 307 Views 2 Comments death, epistle, investing in life, last, seeing future, tomorrow

But one moment from death, ever teetering over the abyss, life is no assurance, no certainty, as we travail our

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Fear Not Death and Embrace Life

December 3, 2017 Tony DeLorger 426 Views 4 Comments death, experience, immortal, life, poem, uninhibited

Death is our shadow, it follows us endlessly in life, until we cast no shadow at all and become the

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Following the Cheering Masses

November 22, 2017November 22, 2017 Tony DeLorger 269 Views 3 Comments death, following, Generals, masses, poem, politicians

Eloquent phrases to enlist support, doused in ridicule to denounce recourse, tried and true within persuasion’s bounds, threats carefully clothed

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Lament for the Young

October 31, 2017October 31, 2017 Paul Neglia 403 Views 6 Comments death, love, sadness, too young

For those who have lost something or someone too young. As the sun grew atop me and eventually ensconced my soul, within

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