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Child Epitaph Poems

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The Epitaph of An Abdicator

    There sat in opulent xanadu, the 
 demagogue of empirical hedonism, 
his granary once fuelled regal reign of epicureanism:

gregarious, restive, much-awaited...

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Categories: appreciation, education, eulogy, hero,

Conform To the Norm

My Baby:
Don't be too quiet, yet don't be too shrill,
Don't be too restless, but neither too still,
Please grow up hardy, yet soft to the touch,
Not...

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Categories: epitaph, baby, child, dad, death,

Ancient Greek Epigrams Iii

Ancient Greek and Roman Epigrams

That country wench bewitches your heart?
Hell, her most beguiling art’s
hiking her dress
to seduce you with her ankles' nakedness!
Sappho, fragment 57, loose...

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Categories: epitaph, bereavement, death of a

Ancient Greek Epigrams Ii

Ancient Greek and Roman Epigrams

Stranger, rest your weary legs beneath the elms;
hear how coolly the breeze murmurs through their branches;
then take a bracing draught from...

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Categories: epitaph, bereavement, death, death of

Memories and Tears

There are photos of our childhood
                   ...

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Categories: bereavement, brother, childhood, cousin,

God Got You and Jesus Too Just Believe Receive Just Be Still-

Little one, why you cry;
Keep your eyes towards the skies;
God, yes and Jesus too;
Got their eyes on you;

Young man with the gun in your hands;
Stop,...

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Categories: analogy, beautiful, memorial,

More Iffy Coronavirus Haiku

yet another iffy coronavirus haiku #1
by michael r. burch

plagued by the Plague
i plague the goldfish
with my verse



yet another iffy coronavirus haiku #2
by michael r. burch

sunflowers
hang...

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Categories: epitaph, america, death, eulogy, health,

Childless

Epigrams/Epitaphs

Childless
by Michael R. Burch

How can she bear her grief?
Mightier than Atlas, she shoulders the weight
of one fallen star.

***

Laughter’s Cry
by Michael R. Burch 

Because life is...

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Categories: epitaph, child, death, eulogy, funeral,

Hiroshima Poems I

Hiroshima Poems I

Let Us Be Midwives!
by Hiroshima survivor Sadako Kurihara
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Midnight...
the basement of a shattered building...
atomic bomb survivors sniveling in the...

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Categories: epitaph, child, children, eulogy, father,

Epigrams V

Epigrams

Autumn Conundrum
by Michael R. Burch

It’s not that every leaf must finally fall,
it’s just that we can never catch them all.

Piercing the Shell
by Michael R. Burch

If...

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Categories: epitaph, giggle, humor, humorous, irony,

Epitaphs

Epitaph for a Palestinian Child
by Michael R. Burch

I lived as best I could, and then I died.
Be careful where you step: the grave is wide.



Autumn...

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Categories: bereavement, death, death of

Al Vida Jim Link

At the Edge of my Tears
I could weave monuments with words
(But why shall I say much NOW?)
The Hindu child within my soul
Adored weaving flower-circles of...

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Categories: bereavement, best friend, bible,

Athenian Epitaphs

Athenian Epitaphs

Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be,
but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.
—Michael R. Burch, after Plato

Does my...

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Categories: epitaph, death, eulogy, funeral, grave,

Epitaph For a Palestinian Child

Epitaph for a Palestinian Child
by Michael R. Burch

I lived as best I could, and then I died.
Be careful where you step: the grave is wide.

This...

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Categories: absence, bereavement, conflict, death,

Twenty-First Century Nativity

On the twentieth floor of a high rise flat,
A new born baby cries by his mother’s side
Her name was Marie with no where to bide,
No...

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Categories: abuse, addiction, christmas, discrimination,