Memorial Death Poems

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’s cosmic cryptic child Edgar Allan Poe
Whose spirit danced and was drenched in woe
Words were his secular style shields
Sugar skull sentences steam today in forever...

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Jones, Jones, where are your bones? 
I'd like to hear again your moans, your groans, 
underneath loathed graveyard stones, 
all with weird sepulchral tones, 
me...

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(while trapped in Pottstown 
Memorial Hospital parking lot).

My humble apology to those,
who posted uber up lyft ting messages
to this Macbook Pro Facebook keeper,
without said scrivener...

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I remember in 1968 when the President decided not to seek reelection.             ...

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He was a gangly kid. Ugly on the upside.
Unmemorable, until the day he died.
Suddenly, he was totally everyone’s best friend.
They try to one-up each other...

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I arrived in the church
By a gravitational tug
I considered myself
Unworthy to hug

The door was greeted
By a familiar face
With a painted on smile
Pain, covered in lace...

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An American Hero
copyright 2015 by jon gutmacher

I hear the muffled drums
in the distance
People stop
some shed tears
men remove their hats
others place a hand over their heart
remembering...

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Famished and flagging footsoldiers;
formerly fitters and farmers.
Facing fatigue, fitful fever,
faeces and foul, foetid fungi.
Fostering feelings, frustrated,
for this faraway, foreign field.

Forsaking fissures and furrows,
forced forwards with...

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IF YOU PULL A LONG FACE - Part Two (continued)

     ( for sweet-teeth kiddies )

IF you pull a long face
And that...

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It really hurt me when you
said I didn't matter
Threw me on the bed
watched organs spray and splatter

You offered me up to him
on a silver platter
Filled...

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I walked by the lake in the morning light
Caught movement in the corner of my eye
Stood a beautiful woman dressed in white
Silence was broken with...

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Burning fast and high, but not for long
Flickering away without a final song
Burns so so bright, but its gone so fast
Disappearing is a second, only...

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Respect was Aretha’s request
Every good soul deserves the best
She lived her life
Pure and right
Ever honest and true
Creating music for me and you
To celebrate her life...

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Zeroed out fire
Airformed herring ash
747 crash...

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I
he slowed down with compassion -
no judgment, only attention
July 14, Memories Shared
At Randolph Memorial Baptist Church ...

II
CT's two sons, the family, must carry on
Lives, and...

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I hold it up again today; the world,
Pregnant with magical dimples
Of a child's reckless abandon,
And look at the face,
Then I look at the deep cut
And...

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In fields of green
 you cannot be seen.
 At night you wait
 while your targets prepare their plates.

A combat knife you have.
 for tonight there...

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I used to live in Dark Shadows
Abutting the cemetery
My wife and her lover plotted
An hole in the ground for me

As grave as it is to...

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 Local Memorial Service

Outside the funeral agency two employees
dressed for their job, stood smoking, by the pavement 
a hearse with coffin inside stood waiting.
finally, they...

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