Death Best Friend Poems

Uncle Joe spends his days on death row,
for killing his best friend and Aunt Flo.
He found them in bed,
then filled them with lead.
Losing a friend...

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CORONA OR GOD WHO IS GREAT

Oh! Are there you dear God, hiding in the skies
Where are you now and where were you then?
Really do you...

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R.I.P
Memories fade, how long do they last
Thinking about you, won't forget our past
Wasn't just a friend, more like a brother
Alway's down to ride, there for...

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My soul in the darkness it did abide,
The essence of my life slipping between this life and the next.

On the fringe of suicide and contemplating...

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Here we sit all cold and wet,                  ...

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My heart I set on a dear companion
the cherished imprint on my soul, profound
how safe I felt in a tough kind bosom!
though I ceased to...

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GILGAMESH . . .  

Story has it you used your power to run amuck
Putting fear into the people, and brides in Unuk

So the people...

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And hence forth I am alone
A lone worrier
Going back to my den
And live like the old
Dragon with no companion
In a lost jungle
Who?
Will come to be...

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      Back when I was eighteen, I found Love for the first Time. Back when I was eighteen, I didn't...

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I tasted leaves
the season of aged skin
Below me was the ground
gray in pieces
 
At George Akens
I saw us sittin
in a dull orange booth
sippin long cool drinks
and...

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We sat sunk, silent, staring the moonlight.
The new year's weather; whether cool or cold
Muddled in the day by survival fight,
We couldn't decipher and say it...

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Message after message
Always troubled with concerns
I lend an ear - a voice
You’d think by now I would have learned

Hours and hours of drama
Filled with emotional...

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The years have gone;
we’re old people now.
Many of our friends and relatives 
have passed away.

The world around us has changed. 
You and I are still...

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At the Edge of my Tears
I could weave monuments with words
(But why shall I say much NOW?)
The Hindu child within my soul
Adored weaving flower-circles of...

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Playmates
by Michael R. Burch
 
WHEN you were my playmate and I was yours,
we spent endless hours with simple toys,
and the sorrows and cares of our...

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Those who die
Never go away
Because they lived 
to be part of you.

In your own laughs
You feel their smile
and their love
Lingers on your lips.

Deep inside your...

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My heart is sad as well weakened from memories
A friend who used to be an enemy past physically which have placed me to my knees
Mixed...

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A Small Christmas Package

You have brightened my life. 
I have found you. 
A tiny piece of my past, 
worth saving. 
Something I can keep, 
as...

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(Three Lives, Three Sonnets, Three Friends, Fate's Dark Hand)
POEM 1. Nights Were Our Time Setting Our World Ablaze
POEM 2. When Man Lusts For All, Seeking...

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NOVEMBER 26, 2019

"Amid the jagged shadows of mossy leafless boughs; " 

             ...

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