If Life Is Twice As Pretty Once Your Dead

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Here's my death poem. It's not the typical death poem you might be looking for. It's about the Holocaust and the victims of the biggest atrocity of any war. If this isn't what you're looking for, please let me know. :)

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Except The Ashes

Tattered clothes, just a size too big or small
Families torn apart and into the pits, they fall
Concentration camps packed to the max
Paying with their lives is the tax

Large families reduced to just one
The mind going numb as thoughts come undone
Wondering and asking, “Why me?”
Begging…praying…“Let me be!”

Forced to work on jobs too hard
Living their lives in a cage that is barred
The frail bodies, always falling down
The SS constantly patrolling around

Wanting such a normal life, but it’s reduced to this
Desiring the family that they’re forced to miss
Desiring their life with many friends
Wishing that this horror would end

Struggling behind orders that should’ve never been spoken
The SS beating down on the lost and the broken
Wandering around aimlessly, no longer able to cry
Hoping and praying, and always asking “Why?”

Praying for the day when freedom would reign
A chance for a new life without the pain
Hoping for a day when they can finally cry
Wishing for a day when they can no longer ask why

Knowing somewhere, somehow, there’s a way
They still have a voice, even if they have nothing to say
Silenced by the terror of all that they have seen
Wishing that this living Hell was only just a dream

Walking there now, the silence, it screams
Hiding in the shadows are the things left unseen
Go into the museum and look past the glasses
Everything that remained, Except The Ashes

Could it be about someone dying, too? Or just death.

Okay. I'll see what I have...or can do...

I'm confused.. i thought the title had to be 'If Life Is Twice As Pretty Once Your Dead'

I'll try to get mine in soon.

Ok, this may not qualify. So, I hope you read this, Mooie.
Now, this is about the Death of . . . her true-self, I guess you could say? Is that ok, or should I post something different? If it is ok, I'm posting now so I won't forget.
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Make Me Perfect {Kyrielle Sonnet}by

Make me perfect, make me your doll,
Hold me close, and I will not fall.
Make me just like an endless time,
Make me perfect, a thoughtless crime.

No one's perfect; I am a twist,
Hold me close, and I won't be missed.
I am finally at perfect prime,
Make me perfect, a thoughtless crime.

Now caress such a perfect face,
A perfect thought, not perfect waste.
But, this will only take some time,
Make me perfect, a thoughtless crime.

Make me perfect, make me your doll,
Make me perfect, a thoughtless crime.

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Kyrielle Sonnet consists of 14 lines (three rhyming quatrain stanzas and a non-rhyming couplet).
Just like the traditional Kyrielle poem, the Kyrielle Sonnet also has a repeating line or phrase as a
refrain (usually appearing as the last line of each stanza). Each line within the Kyrielle Sonnet
consists of only eight syllables. French poetry forms have a tendency to link back to the beginning
of the poem, so common practice is to use the first and last line of the first quatrain as the ending
couplet. This would also re-enforce the refrain within the poem. Therefore, a good rhyming scheme
for a Kyrielle Sonnet would be:

AabB, ccbB, ddbB, AB -or- AbaB, cbcB, dbdB, AB.

xTheEcstasyOfSuicidex

ok cool. Um i really don't know when i'll be able to have it in by cos i've been soo busy lately and i'll need to write one specially. but i'll try and write it as soon as poss ok! :)

Awesome, dude. :] I was really scared you wouldn't like it, but wooo, you do! Lmao.

xTheEcstasyOfSuicidex

Deadly Photographs

Deadly photographs spread across the floor
Crimson tears have fallen upon them
Reminiscing or regretting? I don't know anymore
Took life for granted; now it's gone in a flash

Living within the shadows of my haunted past
Pushing away the ones that loved me most
I never knew that my time could come so fast
Took life for granted; now it's gone in a flash

Clenching onto the pillow, crying myself to sleep
Blade ridding away all sadness, for just that moment
Flashbacks; rocking back and forth as I weep
Took life for granted; now it's gone in a flash

Deadly photographs spread across the floor
Took life for granted; now it's gone in a flash

Brianna Carter
April 3, 2007.

-Well, this one's about dying peacefully I guess...Its kinda old...-

Darkness Gives Its Final Kiss

Outside the sun is dimming low,
the sky is turning crimson red.
The moon is high upon the bay,
stars appear so far ahead.

Whispers heard around the corner
the streets are quiet, not much noise.
A windless night, peaceful air
trees are still, such lovely poise.

Raindrops falling lightly
the weeping skies are getting dark.
Clouds dancing in the midnight sky
to the music of an angel's harp.

The sun completely vanishes
the moon and stars adorn the sky.
Darkness covers everything,
shadows closely lurking by.

Mothers call their children to bed,
soon to be in a peaceful sleep.
Before they lay, they say aloud;
"I pray the Lord my soul to keep."

Night starts creeping in my room
serenity intrudes my soul.
Darkness blankets my body,
caressing me with gentle cold.

A painless fear embraces me,
the scent of night lingers around.
To the melodies of whistling trees
I close my eyes, asleep and sound.

Fall into my dreams, enjoy this peace,
how good it is to feel like this.
A silent sigh slowly exhales,
as darkness gives its final kiss...

© Liz M.

I just finished writing this poem.. I hope you understand the meaning behind it. And I hope it's ok!!!

Body vs Soul
by ~BRiDDY~

Where the once-living now lie,
Is marked by a single stone,
And there deep down in the earth,
You can hear a desperate moan.

The soul is crying out,
Struggling to break free,
For it's trapped within a body,
At freezing point degree.

Wandering through a graveyard,
The living feel that no one's dead,
Because really the graveyard's alive,
With screaming souls instead.

Beneath the grave it burns,
As the soul fights to escape,
The corpse erupts into flames,
Falling victim to some sort of rape.

The body slowly crumbles,
And the soul is now released,
It drifts up through the earth,
And into the world it is unleashed.

No one can rest in peace,
Once trapped beneath the dirt
The ash may still remain,
But the screams can no longer be heard.

Awe crap, I thought we were supposed to use that as the title too lol, sorry if we weren't supposed to but I write all of the poems I have to write on post its and put them on the wall by my computer so I remember and that's what I had written down lol...but anyways, here it is, if it's not okay than I'll write a different one..

If Life Is Twice As Pretty Once You're Dead. [Acrostic]

In the emptiness that swallowed her soul she
Fidgets, tracing along the dark oak, her

Life fading before her
Icy eyes. But inside the casket she cries,
For she knows this is the end, but
Eternity never seemed so close.

I can see her now, with lines decorating the
Sides of her blue eyes, and

Tears are streaming down her foundation disguise,
Whispering to her
'If life is twice as pretty once you're dead, then
Call yourself beautiful Darling for
Eternity is swallowing you whole, and your

Absence is claiming you the new trend, for they'll
Soon say that you fall with class.'

Pretty rose petals lay on top of her beating chest,
Rising and falling with each last breath she takes.
Envelopes sealed with a bloody kiss lay,
Tampered with but never read.
Tears stain and smear the ink but she knows
You never meant the words you tried to say.

Out of the blue and into the black, she
Never knew just how to say that she
Cared and you were the only one for her -
Empty words from a broken heart tremble but,

Yet, the sun continues to dry
Out the rain falling all around and from
Under the tree branches there sits three abandoned
Roses, thorns pricking out from the
Empty grave,

Deserted with no hope and no sympathy -
Except from one bitter man, eyes swollen
And blood shot red from the whiskey, but
Death is screaming his name inside his head.

- Jenna.Elphick
April 4, 2007.

Ooh! yay me! ill start looking, or get it in tomorrow after school.

One day guys c'mon get your poems in!!

Ciao~

Wow im sry i forgot about this contest. i'll do it right now

k im done

Just Another Emo Girl

Goodbye my love. Hello to the pain.
Never again will you say my name.
Goodbye sunshine. Hello to the dark.
Never again will the sun leave its mark.

Goodbye smiles. Hello to the tears.
Alone I will stand for the rest of my years.
Goodbye to everything that I held on to,
Hello darkness, my devotion's to you.

This time I can't take another blow,
So this is my suicide. I've got to go.
As I lay this razor upon my fragile skin,
This is the end; let my afterlife begin.

The blood now pours out as I write this,
Let death come upon me with his kiss.
No more will I feel pain over him,
Goodbye my friend. My visions going dim.

(Just then she took her last breath on this world,
Never again to be called some emo girl.
He took away her life, when he said goodbye,
And now her body's cold, with one final cry.)

~*Who Cares?*~

U can do it dhaval! ;]

Hey guys I'm so sorry...it slipped outta my mind....Thank you for reminding me dear Mooie! :D
My poem, homing in...

Like EoS, this poem is not about conventional death. It's the death of happiness after recieving a numbing shock- the end of a perfect, life-transforming relationship.

Night
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Darkness.
Sinking around my skull, and slowly
submerging me in its velvetiness.
Penetrating and permeating.
It enters like cold molten lead
and drowns me in its heaviness.
It numbs me, or maybe hones too much-
I do not know.

I can't breathe.

The night wind howls, but I think it feels
like music to me; until it dies down.
Stillness welcomes the pain that hides;
but it seems to savor the veil it wears.
Or could it be that it cannot expose
a face it hasn't seen?
I do not know.

I can't breathe.

The raw, stark sky screams
of needed frankness;
and I start to yearn for clouds
just because the truth lacerates.
When I cannot feel love,
the moon glares down and taunts
rosy thoughts; but I don't fret-
you can't jeer at corpses.

I still can't breathe.
(maybe I don't want to)

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Acceptable? Thank you! Not acceptable? Here you go- this one is clearly about a death, as is known to the dictionary.

LUNACY

Kill my mother.
Kill my father.
Don't hurt them though- I love them.
Just a little shining bullet they see as a star.
Let them be smiling as they die.
Kill that little girl who trots around in my dreams.
One last chuckle for Father,
and then do it before she screams.
Expectant Mother. Yes, whisper my love
in her tender ears.
Lost in slumber, take her away from me.
I will try to drop no tears.

Then, as I stand looking at the pyre
watching all my love burn in those flames,
This fleeting body will know no pain (just sting)
as it flings itself into the fire,

and watches the strange spectacle
of a corpse being consumed by Death.

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VERY IMPORTANT:
Please forgive me God, and all of you who I love and I have betrayed by this momentary thought. It entered because of depression, perhaps. What I basically meant to say, though, was that once everything I have is gone, I could die in peace, without feeling guilt at watching others' pain caused by my death.

Actually, only the title speaks the truth about me here.

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YAY! It's the Seventh! =]

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All poems are in AND it's the 7th! I'm so excited! [[Dances]]

xTheEcstasyOfSuicidex

Cool can't wait!

Eep:) im excited

Omg thanks sooo much!!!! =]

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