Daughter Elegy Poems

You were born here,
Blue Ridge foothills,
spirits of Cherokee in 
Appalachia's olden heart and veins.
Scots-Irish influence of beloved
bluegrass,
moonshine of the drinking kind.

Your parents weren't the responsible
type,
as...

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Mocking at my writings, yet, reading them
Why did you, dearest daughter, flee from me?
Why, Oh death, have you snatched from me my gem?

I saw you...

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IN MEMORY OF CENTURION 
GAIUS LUCIUS MANIUS 
PRIMUS PILUS FIRST COHORT
LEGIO VI VICTRIX
HE SPENT HIS PENSION
IN CISALPINE GAUL
WHERE HE RAN 
AN HONEST BROTHEL
HIS FUNERAL WAS...

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9/22/1983

I drove your shining,Cadillac, Daddy!
The lead car to the cemetery.
A stuffed bear, your Borsalino,
In the August, back window,fino!

You, in the hearse, a few feet behind..
Tears...

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...

mom, dad, brother

mom, dad, brother

mom, brother

dad, brother

brother

brother

girlfriend, brother

girlfriend, brother

wife, brother

wife, daughter, brother

wife, daughter

wife, daughter, son

daughter, son

daughter, son

daughter, son

...

me...

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Elegy for Alice
Reverent black stillness
Hushes the dawn
Emptiness waits
In quiet fields
Long shadows of memories
Fall on Alices grave
Birds chorus incantations
Trees reach prayers skyward
Sad reveries veil a daughters...

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Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost ~ May 4th, 2004

Often these days
the following genuine sentiment
Matthew Scott Harris
doth wish to share one son,
cuz fifteen...

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Elegy for a little girl, lost
by Michael R. Burch

. . . qui laetificat juventutem meam . . .

She was the joy of my youth,
and now...

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Elegy for a little girl, lost
by Michael R. Burch

. . . qui laetificat juventutem meam . . .

She was the joy of my youth,
and now...

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Belated condolences extolling fateful tragedy...
befalling beloved Khurana's

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The missus shrieked
with horror...

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Her pale face is voided antiquity,
a paper-thin line

fallen fresh
from flowery fallacy 

to hardwood floor, coiled 
cold & blue in landing;

words, like little 
droplets of April...

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I, (though ye feel averse associating
with birth father) attest,
perhaps undeserving your vicariously quest
regaling, surmounting, and triumphing
storied Penn ultimate academic conquest

affirms his pride and joy at
stellar...

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Immeasurable maturation profoundly
transformed thy Shana Punim
within whose corporeal femininity
gravitas resonates and doth hum
whose unbelievable transition, now
follows the beat of her own drum

approximately four years ago,
thee...

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March 8th - International Women's Day The World Over

Down to the wire, before this
calendrical occasion doth expire,
though arbitrary twenty four hour
time set aside for guide
ding...

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Amelie Beth Harris - Born December 1st, MCMLVII

A bouncing baby girl did await,
asper occasion
     about nine months
    ...

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