Mother Epitaph Poems

Mother Mary, on your birthday,
will you please intervene--

Bring my prayers to your Son:
God save the queen



[September 8, 2022]...

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We all fit where God has chosen and yet we believe it’s us who have coveted

That we do the desiring, selling tickets to your mother...

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A beloved king~Prince Philip,                     ...

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Think not of me ascending
To some celestial space
Some Heaven never-ending
Spending eternity in God’s grace.

Think not of me transcending
This universe, material
To some vapid, unoffending
Paradise ethereal.

Rather think...

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Mum, I wasn't prepared for you to 
pass so soon.
There was so much more I had planned for
you to do.
I never got the chance to...

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There are photos of our childhood
                   ...

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Just a memory now for me
When once each day would be
With you as my mother dear
So full of love and clear

For time can stretch so...

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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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LEONARDO DA VINCI POEMS, EPIGRAMS AND QUOTES

These are my modern English translations of the poems, epigrams and quotes of Leonardo da Vinci. I believe the...

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Athenian Epitaphs II

These are ancient Greek epitaphs for lost family and friends, including dogs and other animals ...

Now his voice is prisoned in the silent...

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*Image of Mom Playing the Organ by My Family Pics.

Songstress Sings Songs

The Doxology chorus though widely sung owns a verse that 
accompanies, although, beyond seasons...

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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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Epigrams/Epitaphs

Childless
by Michael R. Burch

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

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Laughter’s Cry
by Michael R. Burch 

Because life is...

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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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If I died today March 2nd, 2020...?

No matter unfulfilled dreams never came true,
nevertheless yours truly doth gladly bid adieu,
where repurposed afterlife (mine) atomic brew
reconfigured, reconstituted,...

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