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Just Buried

  Farewell! Farewell!
It’s time for my closing verse.
  How long the years
that bless and unkindly curse,
  till in a black wagon
  our sorry a-rse draggin’
we get to flat ride in a hearse

  Goodbye! Goodbye!
Father, we buried you today
  in a wicker casket
wherein bones of Mother lay.
  Laid to rest upon her
  as the guest of honour
together once more to stay


       1921 ~ 2014.
           
 
  Written: October 2014


Alas for most of us the one time we
get to ride in a big chauffeur driven
limo is the day you’re DOA! RIP dad.

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Hilda Greenhough Date: 7/7/2025 8:35:00 PM Your poem of sadness is but a reminder. Our time is not long. I just saw the photograph. I send my condolences. May your parents continue in eterrnity. Login to Reply Keith D Trestrail Date: 7/8/2025 12:56:00 AM Thanks Hilda. It’s the circle of life and all that. We all return to dust.

Craig Cornish Date: 7/7/2025 6:29:00 AM Finnegan's wake indeed! and a warning that you might perhaps be around long enough to torment other picnics -- I'm 77 and my dear Mom turned 95 in April so I may do the same! Yet your Mum passed at only 46 - so very young like my Dad passing at 41 -- fate is ... what it is? Login to Reply Keith D Trestrail Date: 7/7/2025 3:42:00 PM Yes Craig, I too hope to rise again from my sleep of the dead through distillation of the Holy Spirit, not the whiskey spirit like Finnegan. Cheers.

Paula Goldsmith Date: 7/1/2025 12:11:00 PM I enjoyed reading your wonderful yet sad "Farewell and Goodbye" write. Have a blessed day writing away.......... Login to Reply Keith D Trestrail Date: 7/1/2025 7:48:00 PM Not sad, Paula. He was 93 and lived a full life. He was ready and so was God. Thanks, as always, for stopping by.

Arlo Parker Date: 7/1/2025 10:09:00 AM RIP, Mr. Dad. Login to Reply Keith D Trestrail Date: 7/1/2025 7:45:00 PM Just a tongue in cheek dedication. I don’t want any wailing and gnashing of teeth at my send off. I want bagpipes and singing and dancing and drinking. Maybe some fireworks and a glass top coffin to take in the view.

Tom Woody Date: 7/1/2025 5:20:00 AM I wonder if they'd be willing to transport me in a fancy limo. Always wanted to try one Login to Reply Keith D Trestrail Date: 7/1/2025 5:27:00 AM The last time I was in a limo I barely had a pulse so it won’t be a stretch for me. No pun intended.