Spring Elegy Poems

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Crystal droplets on the grass, 
          a shimmering, ephemeral mass, 
     ...

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By Izunna Okafor


Dear, Ify, I with a heavy heart, 
Join to mourn Ma Caroline's tender depart. 
Her love, a warm sun, now dimmed from our...

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Jose Mendoza, was a young migrant farmworker,
he was harvesting sweet potatoes on
Barnes Farming property in Spring Hope, 
North Carolina on September 5, 2023.
The temperature was...

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Time it catches up
To all of us I guess
You can try to avoid it
Or enjoy it like the rest
No matter what you try 
Father time...

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Sharp eyes dimmed ,a last spark of life  

Looking puzzle and questioning  

Into my soul went his silent plea, 

As if to say...

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All those years of wishes, craving, feelings of wanting to be loved -
Disappear without shadows 
But weeping and loud wailing on my grave stone–
Is what...

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Each delicious breath,
Every cooling drink.
I salute your passing.

Temperatures we enjoyed,
your breezes stroked my skin,
sunlight played softly,
green fields waved salutations.
I recognize your demise.

Unfiltered sunlight on my...

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Final Lullaby
by Michael R. Burch

for my mother, Christine Ena Burch

Sleep peacefully—for now your suffering’s over.

Sleep peacefully—immune to all distress,
like pebbles unaware of raging waves.

Sleep peacefully—like...

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ARDINGLY ELEGY

The clock tower tolls the passing of the day
The bleating flock wends home neath darkening sky
The Judges homeward plod their weary way
And leave the...

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NOVEMBER ELEGY

The trees stand calm and tranquil in repose
Rehearsing now the waiting that’s ahead
‘til breaths of air  unloose their amber clothes
To drift in swirling...

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I felt nothing 
Meeting his body 
Shrunk, motionless 
A log, plastinated by white enshrouding cloak  
I felt nothing
Trailing this log to its final abode
Six...

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Spring or autumn, leaves bloom or fall,
Everything seemed to offer me immense happiness 
As long as we stayed together.
Harshest of weather, extremes of cold
Still felt...

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The game of life  starts 
 With first breath  in
 Then breath out
 Again breath in breath out
 Continue remains till last
 Breath...

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No matter how good we are
Most marriages have a wall,
That divides war and conquer
The barriers we erect affects us all.

Cold and calm two lifeless form
Lay...

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WHEN WILL MURDEROUS SPREES END???

An unprovoked angry, bloody,
     and deadly war zone
     on an unprovoked whim
dispassionately, indiscriminately,
...

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