Music Epitaph Poems

One thing about the sixties time
Was the music was just fine
Listen to it now
The Electric guitars were just wow

Look for the music played
By Jeff Beck...

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Threads connect us to things in the past
A song a happening or person we think would last
Where were you when it happened then
Is stamped to...

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Goodbye Stephen, you brightened our way 
With lyrics  that said what we couldn’t say,
With music that touched our spirit, our soul, 
You picked us...

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Groovy Goodbye

Monkee, Michael Nesmith, known as the serious of the four in the band
Performed as guitarist/singer and toured with Micky Dolenz last month.
He wrote the...

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If I cannot fly, let me sing
he who wrote almighty music 
writes now in a place of nothing 
or somewhere else the theater picks 

1/24/2022...

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A theatre legend - Mr Stephen Sondheim
an icon of Broadway, ahead of his time
smart lyrics, lush music, bold rhythms and rhyme
the curtain has fallen on...

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Christopher Plummer, an icon of silver screen,
most elegant of actors there has ever been,
be it the Sound of music or King Lear on stage,
Your exceptional...

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A beloved king~Prince Philip,                     ...

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In here lies
Christopher Plummer
Known for as 
‘ Captain von Trapp 
in The Sound Of Music'
Or was not Edelweiss for him.

03/01/22
A Celebrity Epitaph Poetry Contest
Sponsored by:...

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Christopher Plummer above the stars
Where the hills are alive
With the sound of music
And songs of a thousand years


Christopher Plummer, 1929-2021, was a successful stage and...

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PLATO EPIGRAM TRANSLATIONS

These epitaphs and other epigrams have been ascribed to Plato...

Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be,
But go with good fortune: I...

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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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Epitaph. Ray Maloney

Alas, poor Ray Maloney, I knew him well.
Raised German Shepherds and then, shot them all to hell.
Played loud Polka music in his backyard.
Carrying a...

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The final score ~ He couldn’t face the music anymore...

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Catherine Bryan
1838-1918

Thy swan song will be kept short, for thou
And ye, faithful friends of Whittier’s Quaker enclave,
In stout shock, thy anger scolds the town,
For ye...

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