Death Memory Poems

Alice found herself in the icy grip of a desolate cell, her countenance devoid of emotion, her gaze lost in the abyss. As she hummed...

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"God sends pets without wings so no one will suspect they are angels ..."  Unkown

Angels come in all sizes
Never knowing when they will appear
Great fur coats to...

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Home Again reprise:


We and Time started
out together but somewhere
Time left us behind


The home of childhood -
a house now owned by others -
resides in the past


When...

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The third of  May 
A long time ago 
How can I forget the day 
I had to sing hurray 
To my beautiful baby twins...

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These are poems about sinking, poems about drowning, poems about loss, and poems about new discoveries we sometimes make while feeling lost...



Sinking
by Michael R. Burch

for...

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my river
blackest water 
death etched in wet stone 
tumbling dark and light 
disentangle the night
and roll my body
into the deep cold of you
my river 
once...

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This blessing is a question
Just a thought I'm throwing out….
It is actually less a blessing
than something to think about…

Although it is inevitable…
for death we cannot...

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Yesterday flows through my mind
carrying the day and night dreams I've lived
they are hazy visions from the pit of my soul
   dispersed in...

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There is a grave with no name
That stands lonelier still.
It has no flowers nor despairing mourners
And the grass grows thick and bushy,
For this grave is...

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Amidst summer’s day
Post middle school finale
In the concrete valley
A vanguard viking lay

We gathered as a ragtag crew
Peeled his corpse off the floor
Carrying him, despite the...

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Dividing line defies defined
Not who but where was I
Was I in eyebrows expressing midst reflexive twitching
Was I behind closed eyes, squeezing hand on polite command
Was...

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Our Stolen Days

The given days we take,
Childlike, heedless of consequence.
We swallow them as our due,
Our entitled share of happiness
Or, at least, consideration of the stake
Each...

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I know there is simply nothing I can honestly say
To make all of the soul-wrenching pain of grief go away,
Because I too was there crying...

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Who were these people whom I feel for familiarity?
Who am I really, when finding this clarity?
Who are we in this time of reenacting memories?
Who were...

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When my mother discussed his story,
I was tragically shocked and enraged.
How could someone kill a teenager?
Assuming Yoshihiro was a trespasser?

An exchange student, a young teenager,
From...

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