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Poetry: Understanding death

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  by Paul Lines

  DEATH

  A life has come to its end
  The journey has finished at last
  The shadow of grief and sorrow
  Hang lowly over the house
  The

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  by Ethel Smith

  One fact is certain,

  from the day we are born,

  that someday we'll die

  and perhaps some will mourn

  our passing from this world,

  that

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  by Kat Apf

  After a brief blip in darkness,
  whirling through a swirl
  of sweet lullabies
  and a healing, comforting warmth
  you realize all

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  by Kristina Summers

  The Bell and the Knife: Published by me in an anthology book.

  How are you? Me, not so good, I took a walk with death, at

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  by Sean Portland

  As a frail

  Flower, pressed

  Recalls a summer in its passing

  Until its bud

  And stem become

  The dust its vellum bed collects,

  And

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Poetry: Understanding death