Best Impermanence Poems

"Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come." By Rabindranath Tagore

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Crisp air, fallen leaves
Shattered shapes, 
Whispering tales of metamorphosis.
Their effortless art of surrender,
Breaking down into the soil to serve the growth of others,
Demonstrate the value of transition. 
They fulfill the circle of life,
Becoming echoes of the essence of existence,
Displaying the absolute beauty of impermanence....

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A man lives and a man dies,
A flame burns and soon flickers out,
And so goes the pattern of vitality.

-Eddie Belcher...

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IMPERMANENCE


Nothing seems to last more than a blink
From seconds to  millennia - just think: 

Sunsets   most fleeting
Chocolate you are eating
Ice-cubes in coke  (or lemon-and-lime )
Mascara in the rain runs faster than time
Cherry blossom, soft, pink, falling
Indian summers whose end is galling
Teenage...

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Impermanence

We’re waves
Thaw, melt and freeze
Impermanence of breeze
We're castles of sand -
Leveled by bully's hand
We’re spider webs and beaver dams all
Mists and illusions ephemeral
We’re mountains disappearing
We’re rivers just appearing – 
Carrying cliffs to emerald sea
We’re a smile of effervescent tea
We’re the sparkling wines that fizz
We’re the...

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Pushin' up daises
noctuary memories
dismantling me...

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I lie in the reclining chair, 
sucking my teeth
and wonder why the passing cattle
only stop in the field next door

and then the herdsman comes
with his tortured, twisted cattle- 
prodding stick, and they all move on,
me, the herdsman and the cattle...

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The azure ecstasy of the glistening autumn sky 
fades away with the blizzard of the polar wind.
As on the wings of winter the golden leaves fly,
gone with the surge the fleeting joy of the mind.

On the concave canvas of the hazy horizon grey,
rainbow dreams gleam...

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I want to grow and age with you,
And watch the seasons come and go,
As both our bodies change with them,
And love still burns within our souls

I want to hold you in my arms,
As days and months turn into years – 
To see our children grow...

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Only a moment,
So quickly passing away:
Waves on the ocean.
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In an hundred years...
Everything around us will be changed,
And everybody will be dead,
Yet, something will continue...

Will it be, as my radical leftist brother predicts,
The final takedown of Western Civilization?

Will we all rise to pray and face east?
Will we all rise and face nothing but a...

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The Beauty of the End, is, It's Beginning!
For Aspen never rise, till fire is still,
And all Endeavors, Loves, and Lives are Ash...
All that is product of the Human Will
Persists, till not a stone's upon a stone,
And every outbreath lifts the dust to motes,
Upon the Light...

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quivering dewdrops on Lotus 
                       leaves, remind stark impermanence 
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Ash, sparks drifting up,
On the fire's updraft borne,
Like souls go skyward...

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For billions of years
I did not exist.
Then I existed
for a little while.
Soon I will return
to not existing
for the rest of time....

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