Death Cousin Poems

When I go to Heaven someday; my love's spirit shall lead the way.
I want to meet my grandfather in a valley of pink lilies.
I shall...

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Some hearts will go on, 
Braving the storms, the pain,
Even though you’re gone,
You’re there in ways I can’t explain.

Some of those who believe,
Will speak of...

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I often see a bumblebee,
I then wonder what she thought of me, 
But now it doesn't matter really.
Truth is I always left her to just...

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Cousin I miss you and we had a great ball
One thing I can say is that we enjoyed it all
I'm sorry that I couldn't bare...

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I bought fake flowers because I hear they last forever.
Could care less what's said about this place where I won't live forever.
Losing her had a...

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It was last year's Easter Sunday,
I saw her last, before she went away.
It was also someone else's birthday,
As I saw my cousin's body pass, as...

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Almost three years ago from today December 20th, 2022

self quarantined misanthrope...
pitched into purgatory wham!

Ably cane resign eternal damnation (mine)
courtesy devil specially engraved telegram
prestidigitation found me...

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We bereaved-
Loved our child since she was conceived. 
Doctors declare she was diseased. 
We sneezed and she was seized. 
It’s hard to breathe; I don’t...

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in the early light of day
i rise from shadows of dreams

two days ago a cousin i hadn’t seen
called to say my aunt had died

at the...

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You were so well-loved.
Your mother truly believed
You were an angel
With the loveliest of eyes
And always a smile so wide.

For K.K.T.
(July 2004 to May 2022)

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"There was...

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Only seventeen 
on a hot Harley Machine.

Didn’t have to wear 
a helmet 
you could feel the air 
streaming
through your hair.

Riding down the rainy road 
behind...

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So this is death again;
    he comes around too often
    of late by far!
Disturbing our positioning,
   ...

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Today a dearest of all princess of summer was taken up to heaven.
In a same manner as though of a bummer shaken up till no...

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You gave away everything.
You did, didn’t you? 
You didn’t choose, you had to. 
Beaten, broken, smashed, thrashed. 
Mind and body, even soul. 
They took your...

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I came sneaking around to see what I could see,                  I saw you long before you saw...

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