Confusion Epitaph Poems

A tradition beyond the grave, leading the dead and dying to sporadically engrave 
upon themselves an epitaph, in hopes of discovering their forgotten path. 

And...

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Those who are ever-persistent
   take pride in being consistent
Never quitting what they start
   they're considered quite smart...

Others hem and haw, never...

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The failed actor suspended over the side in one of the stages
hanging silently like a dead marionette.

Fate soon drew the darkness to him.
His life goes...

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1921   -   2019

“Lies here an unknown body, yet their Spirit has flown”

“Unto stream of golden veils set sail onto a golden...

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Words are only words til they are anchored to change,
Which shouldn't sound strange,
To those within range.

Mouthing just the words leaves lips still unaided,
And feet unmoved,
With...

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I
If space is empty, just nothing, total void -
How can our best minds admit "space is curved"?

II
O the space that inhabits even carnal flesh
More space...

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In my mind I try to see,
A place where I can just be me,
I cannot find a place to go,
That let's me be the me...

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William Sawden

1893-1917

On the southern facade,

Of the Golden Rule Store,

On Greenleaf Avenue to the north,

There is a single window,

On the third floor up.

Behind the white half...

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I will break into your thoughts,
		with what is written within my heart...

		I'm so sick,
		infected with where I live.
		Let me live without this,
			...emptiness
				...selfishness

		I'm so sick!

		All my...

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Not a flag was unfurled,
and no cornet trilled,
as the rain-swollen clouds,
the bleak valley filled.
 
The wind blowing cold
with a chill that pervades
as the caisson's old...

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I feel my life , wasting away'
Living in a strange place , day by day 
Who is to blame? I ask myself ,
If I get...

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STEELENESS , dead silent

Ascetic
Broken Austerity 
Delusion
Copasetic in poverty
Mass-confusion
Pathetically unspoken
Orphaned 
Disparity 
Silent burial
Silent ceremony.


end
Written Dec. 08th 2014. This is something that I wrote (after my good...

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The waves come in
The waves roll out
Not a piece of land in sight.

As I sit here on the bow
It's such a beautiful sight
I strum my...

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that day*

two score and ten
business men in leisure suits,
grandmothers with grey handkerchiefed hair 
and adolescents in gaudy glasses,
girls wearing bouffants and sweaters, 
the boys maybe...

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