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Premium Member A Tomb of Ancient Bloom
Take me to the place where the aromatic fragrance
threatens to envelop our obelisks glorifying death;
to the place where the seraphim of old long to steal...

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Categories: tomb, appreciation, beauty, devotion, emotions,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member The Womb Tomb
     Womb Tomb

The baby loved the heart music of her mother to be!
She heard the water running
all over Mommy’s body and
breast,...

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Categories: tomb, baby, prayer,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Tomb Silent
 

For a moment when I open my door,
a sweet meow will greet me,
but, it is just a wish . . . 

Oh, I want...

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Categories: tomb, grief,
Form: Kimo

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier - Canada

We all know you now
You have fallen at our feet
You have guarded them all with life and limb
Noble...

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Categories: tomb, soldier, violence, war,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member A Tomb of Ancient Bloom
You come in search of love back to the tomb
Beneath the Weeping Willow tree it lies
The place where last you lips brought me to bloom
Where...

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Categories: tomb, true love,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member A Tomb of An Ancient Bloom
You look at me and see a northeast highway after winter
Cracked, worn, roughened by conditions not meant to be endured.
I was once the most beautiful...

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Categories: tomb, age, career, change, judgement,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The White Tomb Trembles
* For J.K. Rowling *

                 ~ 

now, deliberate your...

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Categories: tomb, evil, fantasy, magic,
Form: Epic
Strange Things Found In the Lost Tomb of Zarathustra
It was never exactly pinpointed
for only the African Crowned Eagles knew of the twisting paths
to its misplaced place.

In that crystalline chamber, upon that gold dusted...

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Categories: tomb, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Jesus Is Not In the Tomb
Jesus is not in the tomb, my LORD and Redeemer lives!
He is in the heart of all those who in Him believes!
He has promised to...

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Categories: tomb, jesus, truth,
Form: Verse
The Tomb
Time is serenading a soulless march
September sings mournful, parched tomb
Lies untouched in the bleeding hearts crying out
For redemption and hearing a requiem no doubt

Iniquity without...

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Categories: tomb, faith, peace, philosophy, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Borrowed Tomb
As the spring sun rises
Revealing wispy clouds
Fog that's settled in hollows
Roosters crow, doves' coo proud

With Easter approaching 
Thoughts of thousands years
Ago bubble up in 
Memory,...

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Categories: tomb, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tomb of Ancient Bloom
The Friar's Heel beside the way
tilting toward the stones arrayed
at Stonehenge where the Devil played
and tossed the monolith that day.

Zareba formed of massive stones,
encircled 'round...

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Categories: tomb, religious,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Awaken From Within a Tomb
LOVE'S LOST IN THE LAND OF NOT 
John (Winged Warrior)- we've not forgot 
Your heartfelt comments and lovely, 
Soul... 
A beacon of light- the way...

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Categories: tomb, dedication,
Form: Rhyme
From the Womb To the Tomb
Within the womb the miracle lay
Waiting for the appropriate day
To, at chance, enjoy the start,
A life in which to grow in heart

From the day that...

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Categories: tomb, death, faith, inspirational, life
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Undiscovered Tomb of a Pharoah
Valley of the kings
Romantic ideas
Word spread rapidly
Undiscovered tomb of a pharoah
World renown archeological teams 
headed for Egypt

Amateurs, we stood in line for almost twenty-hours 
before...

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Categories: tomb, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things