Birthday Bereavement Poems

I wish I was a better man and lived a normal life,
It was not hard to be a gent,
And look after your wife.
I never married...

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April 9th, 2024 would be ninety fifth birthday poem for dearly departed papa

The following words crafted soon after the soul of me daddy set adrift...

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Some years, February is the coldest month.
Most years, only the second coldest. 
Always, it is the shortest month, 
even during leap years like 2024. 
Kale-month....

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I was not able to write poems for a long time now
And on this dawn my thoughts of you urge me to write one
Papa, ...

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Harriet Harris née Kuritsky circa November 13th, 
1935 - ~ May 4th, 2005
(untimely death sentence ordained ~ early February 1935)

I trot out a poem acknowledging...

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I moved to San Francisco from across the bay in early 1977. At 19 years old, dad got me a two-bedroom house in the San...

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Au revoir oh perilous freedom...

Since pledging my troth
to the missus July 25th, 1996
after the comma error
punctuated mein kampf with disequilibrium.

Ever since the notions
of life, liberty...

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Dear God,
Another birthday gone,
Another sad song sung,
From more life to oh life,
From hurray to woe ye,
A soul is added:another taken,
From a happy cheerful voice,
To a...

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I have a thing with date
 I have a date with dates
 I have dates with deadlines

 Some dates are treasured
 While some are dreaded
...

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Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost...

~ May fourth, 2005
wedded bliss nearly fifty years
half a century almost
me not most favorite grown offspring,
she (when alive)...

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April 9th, 2023 birthday poem for dearly departed papa

Borne aloft into the netherland
the body bearing thee soul   
of Boyce Brandon Harris
birth name given...

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Happy Birthday, my sister, dear.
How I wish you were still here.

Today is, for me, a solemn day.
Oh, how I wish, you could leave your Heaven...

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Who are these women
Who sit here three times a year
Sipping their tea with pinkies extended?
Once it was five times a year.
Five lunches shared.
Five birthdays come...

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In memory of my friend's mama who passed away recently. My deepest condolences and prayers. Hugs and love.

Oh mama, I miss you 
By Michelle Morris
13/12/2022

Oh...

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My darling, you are not too far away,
There is not one single passing day
That you are not on my mine, as I pray.
There is so...

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