Health Epitaph Poems

Epitaph for the Test Dogs

What you did for us, not many know,
because you did it so long ago.
Victoria’s reign to flapper days,
you lived in labs...

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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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Christmas behind
New Year ahead
Where did grief go
No-one has heard

Festive the spirit
Playful the heart
We are cheering
None wants to part

Keep up the joy
Keep up the laugh
Think not...

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Lament for the Makaris ("Lament for the Makers/Poets")
by William Dunbar [c. 1460-1530]
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
 
i who enjoyed good health and gladness
am overwhelmed...

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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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Tears reunite with my cheeks once again
Just as the dark clouds above start to rain
It Felt as if God was their crying with me
I felt...

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 Lady Jennifer Trent

Here, with not a cent
Lies stingy Lady Jennifer Trent
Who, in trading health for wealth
Invited death in stealth!

Sept. 15, 2018
...

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It’s My Life
to cry alone
is what needs to be done
but to laugh alone is not natural
and a very lonely thing to do 
an not much...

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Uncle Roy written by Shadow Hamilton

As the evening drew in and birds settled to roost
the world seemed to give a collected sigh
as it stood poised...

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(What Should I Believe?)

I sit here wondering,
 About the sum of life, its delights, its strife,
 Its pleasures fleeting, its joys receeding,
 With grief impending,...

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Melissa Lont

1825 - 1911

How does one as low and humble as I
Sum up my life of 86 years
In a mere poem as brief and short-lived
As...

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Pain 
Constant throbbing
Never ending
Day and night
Stop
Night and day
Ending never
Throbbing constant
Pain...

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Are we on the national brink
Forcing our view of rhetoric
without having the option to rationalize or think
The other side,for better or worse,can only succumb
to their...

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I would like to tell you
About Todd, our brother
He was one of a kind
Unlike any other

Todd played a mean banjo
He could sing like a pro
The...

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