Best Gone But Not Forgotten Poems

Great sun, your day is drawing to a marvelous close.
The horizon seems ablaze as you slowly spill into the turning of night.
Tomorrow we shall see your return,
as you stir sleepy eyes and herald the dawn.
Your arrival brings forth the songbird's call.
Though for now, your departure...

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Trills tumble through an air long silenced
warbled melodies enlighten the palate 
whistles delight but fly off to the thistle
freighted by the frigid speak  
amongst the downturn of the day
where blue skies lost their way

Memories of warm caresses
sing along in forgotten dreams
eclipsed heat of destiny
dealt...

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ruby red roses ... dying love on the grave stone


11~28~14...

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I’ll never forget my first day at primary school
You bounded into the classroom, flashing a gap tooth smile
With your blonde curly hair and blue eyes, I was smitten
My first crush at the tender age of five!
Over the years we became inseparable
Then one day you told...

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Our Country  Tis of  thee,  sweet land of Liberty, 
     That bleeds Red, White and Blue across the sands of a distant land.
For purple mountain majesties and amber waves of grain..
      Their blood...

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I always thought you loved me
Guess it isn’t so
Thought it was forever
How was I to know

You belong to another
She has stolen your heart
Better start to adjust
Now we are apart

Such tender words you spoke
They meant so much to me
Was it some just a joke
Was I blind...

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I remember it now
Not all, but enough
To understand how
I am afraid to accept love

Because some love hurts
Especially the kind you gave
The kind nobody deserves
The kind that plants the seed of hate

It matters little if you feel remorse
Your guilt could never ease my pain
The damage you...

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You'll never be forgotten, though you're no longer here.
It seems like only yesterday, but it's been over forty years!

Other children have been taken, yes, of course, we know!
But, to us, you are a treasure and we still love you so!

You were only with us, two...

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He was the love of her life…
                     but her friends keep telling her it’s time to move on
       ...

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Laid Wreath
      Good Greif







In Loving Memory
Of Our Fallen...

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Mossy vines served as camouflage
 for a decaying headstone
 A tangled web, a haunting collage
 Covering the name of a departed soul
  but time could not diminish the memory of this unknown
 
 She stood there silent and all alone
 wondering if this was...

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I look down on you from Heaven
And you can't believe I've gone
I could no longer cope with life
But you did nothing wrong

Today a white feather brushed your cheek
It looked like an angels wing
It was a sign that i watch over you
If you believe in such...

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Gargling with bits of
barbed wire
as I think of you

Dipping my toothbrush in
muriatic acid
before each use
I remember when
you taught me
to smile


And as I toss a handful
of thumb tacks
into my boots
before pulling them on
I recall the night
we danced


Peeling the safety cardboard
from the edges of
razor blades
I drop them...

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well
today
your birthday
reminded me
one more year had passed
without you here
i love you
always
will


©deborah burch
3/26/2012

free verse...

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You promised me that you would never leave my side,
But now you’ve left me all alone in this world.
I’m so lost now without my beautiful, young bride,
Left by myself to raise our little baby girl.

Was it something I did or said to you that was...

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