Best Mourners Poems

The gamblers and the mourners
Explore the vagaries of fate,
The expediency of life
Dangling in the capitol rotunda
Like a hanged man
His hair standing on end,
His boots in the air.

Write, sing, boo,
Do what you will
Never mind the outcome.
Words are cheap, they said,
But they knew better.
The price was dust--
Gold...

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In the bevy of beauty 
She strode with carriage and courage
Gazers overwhelmed
Critics clamoured
Now,
Mourners mourning
As they gather round her past
This noon she stood there vertical
Tonight she lay horizontal
Her pride and beauty encase 
In the meaninglessness of life
Head dropping
Tears tiring
Hope hopping
'Dirt to dirt 'hallowed the priest
'Emptiness of...

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Young Mourners say goodbye
to family members that they
never knew or briefly met,
bewildered and wondering
why they were separated
by death,
Experiencing life as if it were
a movie already begun,
Some are perennially filled
with grief and disbelief,
reminiscing how they could
go on with puzzles of their
lives missing, while living
in a fish...

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All clowns do have a trick to give a laugh although their hearts are sick,
Upon their faces gleaming grins are glued with miles of smiles all hued,
And lofty laughter's just their frozen forte from books of circus' sort.

And mourners whimper, wail and weep although their...

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Trump Mourners Horn Haiku

They are Trump mourners
He has backed them in a corner
While bothering her.

He called Hillary a bigot.
Can you imagine.

Jim Horn...

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Bawling, blubbering
yowling, howling
crying for a day...

Weeping, wailing, whimpering  
sympathy for pay

Relatives nonexistent?
No one left to care?

Snivels, sobs, tears to shed
sorrowful sordid wares
ghoulishly, greedily
auctioning
despair...

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The great mourners on earth listen;
You suffer stress mourning, in fashion
For the dead who died happily
and those who  died by choice

Good input but think again next time
What will you change with tears?
The eternal timetable is set for all
What changes will you make crying?

The heavens...

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Do not mourn me, farewell to
 all from your father, mother, sister, 
brother, friend, aunt, uncle and all…

Our father Christ has called, 
so mourn me not, it is all in vain…

Do not call me to your side,
 for I can not come, my course
 has...

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How are you doing?
I say OK.
But OK is not an answer. 
It tells them Nothing. 
I want to tell them Nothing.
It is none of their damned business.
I actually don’t know how I am doing. 
I’m OK damn it!...

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Laid still mourners pass, surpasses
Time moves let subs pendant closed passes
Subjoin the beauty instilled blurred by glasses
To be resurrected renewed in the ever lasted

12/16/24
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2024©
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poverty
of the spirits n
of the movements
pride leads to anger and revenge
mind of a winter
music in the sound of
the wind emptiness
elevates to grace
mourning on th-
e fall will be c-
omfoted...

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The frosty men of Company mine two thousand and sixty-three
Were way ahead in futuristic thinking than the likes of me. 
They decided to disguise themselves in photos on the wall.
I remember seeing the first one in 1985, a gentle fall.

They were wearing frog heads, formed...

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My mama died 
My papa to 
God bless those who mourn

Come here 
Dry them tears
God says He will 
comfort you 

My best friend dead
 I'll see him 
again
 I'm a hurt and torn
 God blesses those who mourn

 Joy will come...
 will come in the...

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The Color of Lightning
David J Walker
 
After the funeral 
With the solo sung and hung 
in the confines of the chapel
Staining the main
pictographs windows of
Forgotten sins and saints

The flowers were claimed by
blind and lame mourners whose aim
it was to sell them on the once 
busy...

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