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Poem | Poet | Order by Most Viewed | Order by Most Commented | Created | Last Comment |
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For NancyFor my late wife Nancy who passed so untimely in May 2011. Etiam in Morte, superest Amor. Te amo Nancy...... | Spartacus2012 | 636 | 3 | Jan 2013 | Jan 2013 Spartacus2012 |
Crabby Old ManWhen an old man died in the geriatric ward of a nursing home in North Platte, Nebraska; it was believed that he had nothing left of any value. Later,... | Yankee4you | 622 | 7 | Jan 2013 | Jan 2013 rapturecapture |
saying goodbyeI wrote this poem for my mother who passed away in 2008 she was sick for a while and that's how I felt when she passed it is on her mortuary card I'm... | Unknown | 267 | 1 | Jan 2013 | Jan 2013 rapturecapture |
Ladies Of A KingLadies of a king Graceland was your home How you must have cried When you knew he was gone Many still miss him And another hasn't come along T... | EyeLook4U | 439 | 0 | Jan 2013 | |
does anyone careI wrote this a while ago when a friend killed himself the poem is saying tell people how good they are while they are alive don't wait till its too la... | Unknown | 300 | 2 | Jan 2013 | Jan 2013 fjamesj9701 |
That they can’t hurt me no longerI wrote this poem after I was sexually assaulted and beaten in the United States Army by three black men in the my unit.... | WoundedHeart13 | 298 | 1 | Jan 2013 | Jan 2013 Unknown |
Death In New EnglandThe school massacre in Newtown,Con.... | hawqeye | 358 | 2 | Jan 2013 | Jan 2013 hawqeye |
Queen Victoria(The 27 yr old teacher who hid her students and was killed anyway)... | hawqeye | 332 | 0 | Jan 2013 | |
DEATH BEHOLDDedicated to Liz for her poem about Death got me inspired ...thanks... | morgen90210 | 480 | 2 | Jan 2013 | Jan 2013 morgen90210 |
Death.Death... | 2725dl | 588 | 4 | Jan 2013 | Jan 2013 morgen90210 |
Eternitywritten for a friend who was just told she has three months leftt to live... | moongirl1 | 384 | 1 | Dec 2012 | Dec 2012 moongirl1 |
MISUNDERSTOODThis poem is about,loss in my life.I wrote it when I was down and was looking at some poems on line.I'm the one that wrote this,and I don't think it i... | johnking527 | 298 | 2 | Dec 2012 | Dec 2012 Ladybee42 |
which path will i takeInto these poems I put my thoughts My feelings The why life has led me on Should I go this way or the other path way Which is best the left o... | wayne34 | 473 | 4 | Dec 2012 | Dec 2012 niah9 |
Paw Prints On My HeartThis was for Gino,a ferret, I first met at a ferret rescue event. He was a dark eyed white. He had been so badly treated by children ( flung around by... | DizzyAnjel | 593 | 1 | Dec 2012 | Dec 2012 Ladybee42 |
The Old ManShortly after I first left home, (many, many moons ago lol), I was livig in Montreal in a little apartment, in an old house, on the 2nd floor, with th... | DizzyAnjel | 359 | 3 | Dec 2012 | Dec 2012 DizzyAnjel |
"Damaged Mind...Broken Soul"written last night with a profound sense of grief and sympathy for the families directly impacted by this incomprehensible act of violence (two addit... | gnj4u | 893 | 10 | Dec 2012 | Dec 2012 beautifulyou |
In Memory of Sandy Hook SchoolShortly after I lost Momma I was online going through poetry pages and I came across this. The poem itself is amazing but it was the picture behind i... | DizzyAnjel | 362 | 1 | Dec 2012 | Dec 2012 SundaySilence |
the 26 angelsWe let down our guards, in these uncertain times. 20 little angels, gentle, meek & mild. full of such promise, and so full of life. a vision of inn... | cherryreggae | 520 | 5 | Dec 2012 | Dec 2012 cherryreggae |
there is no label just love for the childrenthere are not enough words to describe the pain, the anguish of loosing a child but when I found out that those children were the same age as my girl... | stormseeker223 | 501 | 0 | Dec 2012 | |
The DashAugust 19, 1933 - May 23, 2010 is what the tombstone read If I could talk to them today I wondered the words that would be said What a life, an ad... | fjamesj9701 | 439 | 11 | Dec 2012 | Dec 2012 fjamesj9701 |
once more....for 20 innocent children from Sandy Hook Elementary, Connecticut and the adults who tried to protect them. may something good come from the flood o... | jem1964 | 317 | 5 | Dec 2012 | Dec 2012 jem1964 |
RememberRoses are red violence is blue, we are all single and theres nowt we can do. :)... | Unknown | 221 | 0 | Dec 2012 | Dec 2012 marikia |
9701Its hard enough trying not to cry, but the tears burn right through my eyes. As this empty void becomes a deeper hole I begin to realize. That if... | fjamesj9701 | 603 | 7 | Jun 2010 | Dec 2012 niah9 |
Desert RoseFallen but never forgotten... | Unknown | 332 | 11 | Dec 2012 | Dec 2012 Unknown |
ForgetIts good therapy to share with a group Im told...Cheers... | Unknown | 266 | 8 | Dec 2012 | Dec 2012 NowIsAllUhave |
RedemptionOnce in the grey yearning And awful lonliness Of widowhood I thought That if a woman climbed in my bedroom window I mignt pass out. Now I kno... | consy | 444 | 1 | Dec 2012 | Dec 2012 Poetnumber1 |
alanmy nephew passed away very young just a few words to remember alan. his favorite songs and just a bit of who he was... | alonenaz | 241 | 0 | Dec 2012 | |
Good Bye Dear FriendIn memory of a very special woman: Donna W. Dear friend of 22 years. I found out tonight my dear friend had passed from an ongoing struggle with lung... | Unknown | 704 | 15 | Dec 2012 | Dec 2012 Unknown |
ever been afraid of being all alone I'm the darkHave u ever been afraid of being all alone In the dark? What if since the time u where a kid when life took away ur light ,uve been trapped in an ete... | zethwoo | 278 | 0 | Nov 2012 | |
i appoligize for how i sometimes amAnd i appologize for way i sometimes act,im just all alone in a world where everything i loved seems to never stay and makes it hard to sometimes not... | zethwoo | 266 | 1 | Nov 2012 | Nov 2012 morgen90210 |
In The LightLoss... | adjhe | 274 | 0 | Nov 2012 | |
TRIBUTE TO A DYING FRIENDAs told in the poem, a true story.... | Buffybear | 652 | 2 | Nov 2012 | Nov 2012 studecar |
Questions I'D Like to Ask DeathA bit strange these thought came to me as I waited to fall asleep so I wrote them down... | Unknown | 633 | 8 | Oct 2012 | Nov 2012 Unknown |
Why, I AskThis is not reality ... this was written in a response to a challenge by my lovely lady... | steve1223 | 526 | 6 | Nov 2012 | Nov 2012 steve1223 |
Resemble ThemPenned this, this morning as i go to honour lost friend and family... | Unknown | 210 | 1 | Nov 2012 | Nov 2012 Ladybee42 |
Joseph Smith and Mountain MeadowsCalled "the darkest deed of the 19th century" the brutal 1857 murder of 120,men,women and children at a place called Mountain Meadows in Utah remains... | Spartacus2012 | 828 | 2 | Nov 2012 | Nov 2012 Spartacus2012 |
a borrowed angelthis is for a friend who died on saturday.... | stormseeker223 | 806 | 2 | Jul 2012 | Nov 2012 stormseeker223 |
Death ' 101 'I have read this poem many times since putting it to paper. Each time it brings me peace.... | Unknown | 482 | 6 | Nov 2012 | Nov 2012 Unknown |
THE COLORED LIGHT OF WHERE YOU AREDear Frank, impossibly beautiful poet, and my friend of the heart, dying unexpectedly, as was your always surprising ways, Aug 12, ~I miss you like th... | starfire_girl | 340 | 1 | Oct 2012 | Oct 2012 Unknown |
ContentDealing with dealth... | adjhe | 235 | 0 | Oct 2012 | |
O Tina, Our TinaTina was on another website. We knew she was sick for a while, and that she had just died. We were missing her, and some of us were really hurting,... | HuggerMan4U | 573 | 2 | Oct 2012 | Oct 2012 Ladybee42 |
HopeI wrote this many years ago after seeing a dear friend struggling with the direction his life was heading ... he had lost all sense of being and had b... | Unknown | 335 | 1 | Oct 2012 | Oct 2012 Poetnumber1 |
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