A shred of light
...Fireflies are the sun's cremains
as it sinks beneath a bed of sunflowers,
your intimate shadow dissolving
in the mosaic of patterned disks,
lifted away -in shreds- by the wind....
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Categories:
cremains, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Brief Mane n Tail shampoo tall tell tale
...Brief Mane n' Tail shampoo tall (tell) tale
Living social amidst
crime infested urban jungle
bumping uglies cheek to jowl
analogous fate being housed in jail
escape room of great outdoors
...
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Categories:
cremains, adventure, anger, animal, beach,
Form: Rhyme
Long time Shelton, Washington transplants
...Long time Shelton, Washington transplants...
also known as
noteworthy Trader Joe's patrons
bass sic lee did treble themselves
conducting taping jam session
assembling (boxing), compiling,
and...
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Categories:
cremains, adventure, america, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Dumbfoundedness Still Prevails Three Weeks Later
...Dumbfoundedness still prevails three weeks later...
when held spellbound courtesy grifter
Flim-flam man left lasting emotional whiplash
his derelict perfected artifice
to hijack every last cent...
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Categories:
cremains, 12th grade, absence, adventure,
Form: Rhyme
Amelie Beth Harris Mcgeehan
...Amélie Beth Harris -McGeehan
Acknowledgment of birthday gal,
whose invaluable priceless worth
exceeds more'n a bajillion dollars.
First born of Boyce and Harriet
(both long since deceased,...
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Categories:
cremains, adventure, age, anniversary, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Argh Daylight Savings Time Ends Two Am November 6th 2022
...Argh daylight savings time ends – 2:00 AM November 6th 2022
Hour hands of o'clock get set back
sixty minutes gaining extra hour of Autumn
round about this same day of November
every year, wha...
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Categories:
cremains, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Circa October 7th 2020 Papa Passed Away
...Professed paean pronounced
and adroitly produced
upon spirit of deceased
named Boyce Brandon Harris.
First year anniversary since
cremains distributed across four winds
his soul remains alive...
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Categories:
cremains, absence, death, eulogy, father
Form: Free verse
While Skeptic Attempts To Comprehend the Legacy of Jonathan Edwards
...Alternately titled: Get out of my head mister chatterbox!
While inside me noggin legions
of monstrous demons abhor
protest being force fed
arcane and obscure
assaying into religious dogma
hen...
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Categories:
cremains, 12th grade, america, creation,
Form: Rhyme
Rejoice At the Gift of Restored Health
...Just a poetic (souper) side note courtesy chief
wordsmith brother unaware ye experienced grief
diagnosed as walking pneumonia please bull lief
yours me, he doth care and breathes sigh of relief.
...
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Categories:
cremains, angst, blessing, brother, december,
Form: Rhyme
Memorial Service 10:00 Am October 21st 2020
...Memorial service ~10:00 A.M. October 21st, 2020...
at Cherry Hill, New Jersey Unitarian Fellowship
Boyce Brandon Harris cremains
(approximately one fourth entire contents)
offered, interred, an...
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Categories:
cremains, absence, angel, cry, dad,
Form: Free verse
Roasted Faraway, For Pius Adesanmi
...By Izunna Okafor
Beyond the shrubs of Sahara
Lifted a munt of brainy bond
Over the Mississippi of Ethiopia
Lofted a penner with his hunky thoughts
Across the bridge of a foreign land
...
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Categories:
cremains, africa, death, life, tribute,
Form: Elegy
Fifteen Fabulous Felines Pet
...A cacophony of cats in my life.
Not one or two, but fifteen!
Each,who along with joy,
brought sadness and strife!
All shapes and sizes with grand
and most loving personalities.
The Maine Koon...
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Categories:
cremains, cat, love, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Grave Site
...Grave Site
By the grave I saw the rest
There was no life left
Dead in the flesh no pulse left
God took back His breath
Ah, distinctly I was entombing
It threw its ghost against th...
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Categories:
cremains, adventure, analogy, bereavement, memorial
Form: Free verse
Requiescat For Joe D
...
Requiescat for Joe D
Written: by Tom Wright
4/21/2018
Though he lies reposed somewhere in a Texas field,
The anxiety, and hurt he tendered, can’t be concealed.
He made no effort to ...
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Categories:
cremains, death, god, tribute, war,
Form: Lyric
Paradise
...i start awake from acrid dreams
as all my senses meld to one
i taste the bitter ashen air
cremains of lifetimes
torn asunder...licked by
the devil's sharp tongue
too hot to touch
too painful ...
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Categories:
cremains, fire,
Form: Free verse
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