Death Epigram Poems

On Death

Confucius say, "You're not dead
if your memory is alive."...

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Time For The Curtain
Does the heart need to be on stage
When the brain can't remember its lines...

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Death Of A Snowflake

Irony is not lost on the dying.
As falling snowflakes no two are the same.
Endless monuments to god’s creation.
They are born in winter...

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A Cornered Rat


No matter what the enemy’s might.
The smallest of beasts will stand and fight.
Whether a cat or a mighty bear.
Confront him only if you...

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It is not possible
refuse to die
or to live...!

live in leaps
and ravines, is a way
of living too...

not even death
give us rest
in life...

Death does not release us
from...

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In front of death
 uncertainty makes us sick
  and  certainty
 what health does to us...!...

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Hello and goodbye 
Forever in between 
For a soul’s eternity 
Having been seen...

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Reason not the why of it ~
                
  ...

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When the sick joke is over
   The punchline is a sigh


***...

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I
Life goes in circles, relationships
The earth is a BALL, as some spaceships
We leave home, happily or unhappily
We explore, return at least once: it's geometry...

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With "little" sins
Great falls begin....

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If "everlasting life" is not a misnomer ~~
                 ...

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Epigrams VI

These are humorous epigrams including a form I call "Less Heroic Couplets." 



Less Heroic Couplets: Mini-Ode to Stamina
by Michael R. Burch
 
When you’ve given...

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I
When I knew I am but space
When all bodies are distilled
We learn only space filled
Us, with energy as interface

II
Death separates birth and birth
We never learn...

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In the game, 
to the winner,
the victory,
to the loser
the defeat... !
At the finale of life,
 the same prize
and reward:
The mortuary coffin,
means of transport
to eternal life...!...

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