Passion Epitaph Poems

… well I had a hell of a ride

won’t go to heaven but paradise needs fire

goods innings they say

but I am more of a Rugby...

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Epigrams by Michael R. Burch



Negligibles
by Michael R. Burch
 
Show me your most intimate items of apparel:
begin with the hem of your quicksilver slip ...



Negotiables
by Michael...

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"Melancholy is the happiness of being sad." 
  Victor Hugo

Filled of memories, dreams lost and found
 and heartaches hugged and embraced,
 time stands still,...

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Please let my essence fumigate
And may my passion fascinate
Under this stone I liberate
Of hopes and dreams to integrate.

My song, my tears, they consecrate
A curse to...

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Maria Flores
1878-1923

Si, he was muy macho!
I was the last to see him.
Before Senor White sealed his body for eternity,
Inside the cheapest casket I had ever...

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Daisy Magill
1889-1919

A person knows when she will die.
I knew it. 
My uncle Harry knew it.
And my consumption knew it too.
My dying day was a sunny...

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His passion to die for his nation
made death to flee in disarray...

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Hot, like a brand against my skin.
Agonizing, as it permanently leaves its mark for all to see.
I want you; I want your love to burn...

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Kathrene Waddell

1899-1921

Truth be known,

I married my man too young.

Truth be known,

I jumped into the warm waters of mad love,

Not able to navigate its crazy rushing...

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I've been told that theres no such thing as magic, that such a thing is simply a fairy tale meant for children who are too...

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You see me,
But in a while
You will not;
I become one
With the wind and the rain.

We touch,
Relish the warmth and passion,
But when the clasp breaks,
I reside...

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Love's hurls tutorial in springtime melody;
Endear this embrace with impulse and dance;
Offer sensorial touch of harmony;
New glimpse of sure grace inspires soul's sweet trance.
Ask as...

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You were never seen by us, that privilege sadly was not for us 
  an extravagance we were overwhelmed by, the thought of your...

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Grant Olmstead

1868 – 1899


Just once.
Just one single sublime moment of love 
Is all I ever desired. 
All I ever reasonably wanted in life!
Was I not...

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Viola Fuller

1879 – 1909

For it is written in solemn Chinese ideography,
That two women under one roof spells trouble.
For indeed my life found trouble
And death quite...

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