Goodbye Death Poems

My Friend Good-bye

The heavens will shine 
much brighter now,
Your essence is a part
of it 
You left before the eclipse
It's as if the moon 
waited for you
Shining as big...

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there were days full of so much weeping I couldn’t see
months of wondering why she would so easily flee.
I would lay on the bed holding...

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After El Cielo or Bust

I know time isn’t 
on my Mother’s side
for much longer

Her frail body like a delicate 
wine glass that has just tipped...

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Lay no black roses on my coffin.
Personally I find no beauty in death.
Once life's anvil finally falls put me 
to rest with branches and stones.
Please,...

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What will it take?
For me to be born again
With no hair, soft scalp
Developing fingers, umbilical cord wrapped around my neck

The ultrasound lied to me
Told me...

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Death is when you
Are alive in the shadow
Death is when you can
Sit and sing with your ancestors...

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When the time comes for me to go 
and I know not what my fate may be, 
let me have one final moment Lord 
to...

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Yes, God does give and take away
but when He gives, it is a gift
a truth your life so well portrays,
the one our lives were well...

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The lights are out tonight,
But our struggles still ignite
The hay of hope, like hearth
Amidst the cold and dark.

To the temples in the sky,
For Heaven-on-Earth we...

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Child lying
In a deep pallor
Looking out of a balcony
The last greeting
To island nature

Sunset is preparing
To surrender to the darkness
The gloomy and regal laurel
And the flight...

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In a bed 
not far away
His mind is gone 
but body lay
Slow, but quick
He leaves today
A handsome man
Just barely gray

Many sad
But few will weep
The kind...

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I wish that nightmares only happened in dreams
Or lives that were so tightly joined together, didn't burst at the seams
I wish that I could find...

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Like a bird you flew into our lives…soared in on wings so strong.
When you spread those wings you protected us.
When you sang…you comforted us with...

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When you leave,
take me with you
When you close your eyes and begin to drift,
I'll curl up next to you,
right there on the narrow bed
Let the...

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I'll kiss you as you sleep,
But secretly I shall also weep,
For it seems you are now away from me,
Wandering about with my parallel self,
In the...

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I went searching for-
that little child who cuddled in her mother's arms, 
those tender feet that jumped in rain, 
that little heart which melted for...

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I was dreading my return to work. There would be a multitude of questions
especially by that sod, Riley. He and I had never gotten along;...

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When I learned about his death, it was hard to believe.
An actor died twenty years ago today on Christmas Eve.
Sadly, he died at the young...

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Defining Grief 

the day my 
mother died
i was awake all
night
searching 
for a way back
into her womb

but she had
closed
her legs to me
wrote 
no vacancy 
across her...

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As always when in the initial throes
of writing what I strive to concoct viz
pièce de ré·sis·tance, 
which grandiose whim fizz
hills with utter futility, nonetheless this
nondescript...

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