Funeral Death Poems

We should get some ammunition for the soul
A fierce-looking stranger is always on patrol
And he mutters this curious sentence under his breath:
“Our clichéd hearts have...

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Thinly lined eyelids seal the window to his soul.
His cheeks sink in, countenance concealed and dull.
His still lips wrinkle down to a frown, without tone.
With...

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Here lies the body of Nick O Tyme
Who never thought of crossing the line
Lived his life as quiet as could be
Only stimulant consumed was tea
Saved...

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Comfort and Joy


The graveyard is a little morning rain for the day 

if you have time
let go and get back to the house 
and let...

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Grandma

My hands hesitate here… hovering over the keyboard…
Numb, hard to make do as I ask…
This should be happy, 
but I am…
crying.

I miss her. 

She smoked...

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Mr. Mouse died today
Drowned during his nightly scavenge run
Dead at the bottom of unclean dishes

His tail an ice sickle as I plucked him up
His black...

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Here lies the Count of Monte Cristo
Who got to settle a few scores
With stevedores and commodores
Before stretching out below



Submitted on November 2, 2019, for contest...

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The slow throb of desire
My thighs covered in particles of fire
Your mouth its curved grace 
Sickening spark bad liar

I dreamed a funeral pyre
The flames come...

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1673 Newport Murder Trial

One of my great grandfathers in my family tree
Was accused of murder in 1673.

His name was Thomas Cornell 
And they said he...

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There was always a surfeit of light in your presence.
You stood distinctly apart, not of the humdrum world—
a chariot of gold in a procession of...

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Here lies Rigby, Eleanor,
Of whom we'll say no more,
Except she was such a bore
She defied muses' law:
As recently was shown
She couldn't raise one decent poem!


(I...

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Ghosts in Yakima

Walking along a graveyard
Looking for my father’s grave
Seeing all the gravestones

I begin to sense the spirits
Of the restless dead
They linger around the graveyards

Waiting...

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Tears


Tears roll down her eyes
She trembles, shivers and sighs 
Goodbyes are forever 
Never again to be seen
Death breaks the toughest of hearts


Marckincia Jean
Tanka
10/11/19
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My Dearest Nancy,

Real friends are hard to find
In a place where most are colorblind
A place where we can make such a mess
And carry the weight...

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When I lay in the mortuary, 
Don’t cry, smile and appreciate my journey.
Throughout life, at times, I lived wary.
I carried hope, love and even the...

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Grandpa got a twenty-one gun salute.
I shivered, knowing how much he hated guns
After Viet Nam
The last time he picked one up was in a jungle.
Fifty...

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Two crows spoke indigo black
One to the other at the graveside bleak
Sharing the begotten woe as they did clack
Perched over the fading epitaph bespeaks
In the...

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BLUE PHOBIA

Yield, it does not yield
Summon, it can easily 
be summoned.

Sweat trickles down 
the devastated head
There is a stop sign 
but it cannot be stopped.

Heartbeat
One_two
Cannot...

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The Morning We received The Call Oh How The Tears Did Fall
She Went To Sleep Your Beautiful Bride, Your Best Friend
Woke Your Widow
Oh How I...

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A SOUL IN FLIGHT....EULOGY

A book of earthly life has reached it's age,
with having shared many a page.
Thoughts and memories will never part,
Your history will remain...

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