Our hero on epitaph
our mouth owes a debt to your buried bones
a hot lead cracked in a jiffy,
and your brain splashed~
in the thick forest of Hanoi,
with the stains sucked by soil
as a flow thicker than water.
many blood stains on our flags
made too heavy for the wind
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Categories:
caskets, america, death, eulogy, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Bassinets and Caskets
We’re joyful of the bassinet,
And fearful of the casket.
One, a place where life is new,
The other where the body’s through.
Bassinets, though temporary
Start a life’s eternal tarry.
Bassinets reveal new birth,
And caskets case a family’s mirth.
In bassinets, lie new creations,
While caskets are a demarcation:
A point in time when death imparts
Eternity as flesh departs.
In silence, contemplate the casket
Then
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Categories:
caskets, faith, god, heaven, life,
Form: Rhyme
Two Empty Caskets
A morgue has no master
Death heeds not time
Two empty caskets
~ Life less crime
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Categories:
caskets, death, life, time,
Form: Rhyme
Four Foot Caskets
They shouldn’t need to make caskets only four feet long
Pediatricians shouldn’t have to specialize in oncology
Scarves shouldn’t be worn by ten year old girls
To protect their bald heads as caused by radiology
Little arms shouldn’t bare puncture marks from IV needles
Fifth grade homework shouldn’t be delivered to hospital beds
Last rites shouldn’t be given before her confirmation
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Categories:
caskets, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Floating Caskets
Walking around the marsh with caskets
Floating in the air, Unknown hollow feelings
Tears like rivers, raise the marsh to flooding levels
Unable to see your face
Muddy steps, bog down
Wishing death was not a part of life, idle wish
Like a child's tooth fairy
Idle wish, Eternity of unanswered questions.
Unable to see your face
Wanting release
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Categories:
caskets, death
Form: Elegy