Heaven Elegy Poems

Miss Puffy when you died ,dead did I feel
Left my mind dazed with a hole in my heart
You had heart problems It felt so unreal
Wanted...

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A brushstroke choreographing dramatic elegy framing harmonic gavotte 

specified such so as to issue a rhyme, 
but proceeded as this scribe 
didst git linkedin with...

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Snow fell softly coating the brown ground to white
hoar frost hung and decorated the trees 
sprinkles from the trees fell upon us
deep coldness of the...

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May the God of Hope fill you with all joy and peace? 
sleep has parted us, awaken in heaven, Father's arms
JUST SLEEP UNTIL AWAKEN-
As you...

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On the wings of a Pegasus,
You've spirited away
To be with the Lord in heaven.
I wish I knew you better
During your living years,
But through your poetry,
You...

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Evening shades are deepening
Peaceful hues and tones
In the darkness creeping
There’s a silence in the stones
Anonymous lies sleeping
Psalms praising the unknown
Heaven holds thee in its keeping
Sings...

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I found him lying on his bed,
hair tousled and with a sweet smile.
I realized that he was dead.
I knew this was no show of guile.
A...

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Howl fir tree, the cedar is fallen 

From this narrow lane of time,

from this uncertain strait and burdens

from these enclaves of wearying vanity fair,

from this...

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What a long time they both had 
In oneness when things boom in light
But in a short while when things turn bad 
It left and...

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I was sitting in school when 
it happened
But I didn't know, not then
I was driving home from school when
Police were breaking down the door
But I...

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the stars weep ...
but not for heaven
they weep for vacant eyes
and hearts of parched desire
with tears untold ...
and uncounted

for where is the hunger -
the yearning...

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Below the grounds I stand on
Here lays physical remains
of one's love one
They're not here, they're in heaven


1/1/22
Written by James Edward Lee Sr © 2022...

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For Harley
Love,
Aunt Meghan

*I wrote this poem for my sister, brother-in-law, niece, and nephews when their beloved dog, Harley, the sweetest chunk of marshmallow dog you...

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These are my modern English translations of sonnets by the French poet Stephane Mallarme.

The Tomb of Edgar Poe
by Stéphane Mallarmé
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Transformed...

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