Funeral Ballad Poems

Author Dana Redricks 
March 13, 2019 

I wish we were here 
with us but now you're
but now gone to a better 
place I wish I...

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Ballad of Smorgasbord Cat

Once upon a hot July night
Smorgasbord Cat was born, not right.
The only kitten born with clothes,
She came out wearing pantyhose.

Blue bellbottoms when...

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Her hands were sore from carrying weights
That were heavier than her soul
She was worried about being late
To her own funeral
She prefered pretty lies 
Over what...

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The murmur of hardships along the way
these words include and excludes the theyes" and"themes"
in conversation.Those spoken about as "They" or " Them"
to draw two closer...

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Slow burning funeral pyre
Whose flame burns with desire
Smoke clouds obscuring the sky high
Things I left as I was too shy

What remains for me in the...

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The following item was recently discovered in the archives of the "Toad Suck Monthly News Express":

Mrs. Villonia Beebe has passed away,
She was Toad Suck's most...

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At His Feet shall we meet
There we shall part no more
So they sang at his wake
His corpse now at stake
In a box he was placed
Floral...

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The old legend said the dead come back
So bury them deep down the cemetery track
For the ground elsewhere is sour and unclean
And to do so...

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A slow procession through the grass
Fractures leaden hearts.
A sound breaks out like shattered glass,
Ripping souls apart.

Though never a word is spoken,
Ominous despair
Hovers over hearts, all...

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  To her family she was coy
  but truly she would be their Joy,
  a country girl from Kingaroy -
  ...

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We all gathered together in the Home Going of Harold Smiley
The story of life in a previous daily ride
But on this day, a deceased body...

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Mom
 I cling to her
 As mama has a hard
 Time speaking 
 But I still try to listen
 To her motherly teachings.
 I cling...

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Last time I saw Mary
There she was sitting ‘neath a big shady tree

Sunlight was sparkling through the branches that day
Then Mary squinted and she looked...

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Sorrow soon be gone, glory fill my eye,
Boro I was born and Boro I will die. 

In the heart of some dark English city 
Came...

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 I bet you’ll look so beautiful at my funeral, behind black lace, I bet a shattered face infested with grief and scorn rattled with...

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  Was on a blue July morn gently put
to ground, and parish leaves wet underfoot
  led to halls of bellows and pipes
in last...

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Opening my eyes
to the darkness in my room.
I try not to cry
and look away to soon.

I didn't know what woke me up
from my horrible dream.
But...

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Thelma Leeson.......
is in a nursing home, dementia will take her,
 and I will recite this at her funeral.

Thelma Jane was a Leeson and she was...

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Farewell, then, AUKN boss,
The next this year makes three.
By the time they find a substitute,
Slovenes will be at sea.

He tried to cover his behind;
AUKN boss...

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[Daughters of Lamia]
Today we walk from our graves
You can't  wish, pray it away
The Inflamed Coven's emerged
You Will receive what you deserve
Retribution of the flaming...

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