School Epitaph Poems
These School Epitaph poems are examples of Epitaph poems about School. These are the best examples of Epitaph School poems written by international poets.
Just as She Was - A tribute to Cicely TysonJust a wisp of a girl, dainty as a rose
Dark as the color of bitter-sweet cocoa
From her short hair to her perky nose
A black queen...
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Categories:
black african american, celebrity,
A King
A beloved king~Prince Philip, ...
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Categories:
death, life, love,
Epitaph for My Father, an EverymanEpitaph for My Father, an Everyman
(Written with John Hughes in mind,
as he will understand)
One night in particular, I...
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Categories:
christian, father daughter, forgiveness,
George FLOYDI
I tried not to mention the crime
Siblings, it is high time
America stopped self-flagellation,
Self-hate, self-abnegation
II
I feel for him, brother George ("of the earth")
I came close, but...
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Categories:
america, anger, anti bullying,
Elegy for a little girl, lostElegy for a little girl, lost
by Michael R. Burch
. . . qui laetificat juventutem meam . . .
She was the joy of my youth,
and now...
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Categories:
epitaph, bereavement, daughter, death, eulogy,
Elegy for a little girl, lostElegy for a little girl, lost
by Michael R. Burch
. . . qui laetificat juventutem meam . . .
She was the joy of my youth,
and now...
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Categories:
epitaph, daughter, death, eulogy, funeral,
George Fulwider 1837-1918George Fulwider
1837-1918
My beating-heart age,
Reached the half century mark,
When I and my “better second,”
Found hopeful roots,
And an oleander trellis,
On burgeoning Philadelphia street,
Here in this Quaker...
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Categories:
death,
Kenneth Standish 1912-1919Kenneth Standish
1912-1919
We lived on Newlin Street in a gray house,
Across from the Catholic church, St. Mary’s.
I loved going to the Mass every morning,
Which I did...
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Categories:
childhood,
Frank Lane 1877-1913Frank Lane
1877-1913
RS was my best friend,
A friend ever to the end.
Together we footed and mounted
The pliant limbs of the Hybrid Tree
On County Road,
And wetfully...
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Categories:
death,
Grace Thompson 1894-1917Grace Thompson
1894-1917
At the timbered railroad depot,
On lower Philadelphia Street,
Across from the lumber yard and the state school there,
I spent many an erstwhile afternoon,
Sitting and worrying...
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Categories:
death,
George Schultz 1898-1917George Schultz
1898-1917
I was reposing voiceless on my deathbed,
As with the silent fog on a winter’s morning,
On the way out of here from kidney failure,
And as...
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Categories:
death,
Emma Riesgo 1897-1919Emma Riesgo
1897-1919
Alas, I was just a simple soul.
Born second in the corner house,
Over on old Washington Street,
Just a short stroll,
From the college there,
My mother labored...
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Categories:
death,
Orville C Cameron 1889-1914Orville C. Cameron
1889-1914
Oh, such larks indeed.
Over at the State School pond,
Way back in the tuft of Eucalyptus shade,
We swam, we yelled, and we laughed.
We, the...
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Categories:
earth,
Nellie B Chandler 1897-1911Nellie B. Chandler
1897-1911
There I am.
Here I am now.
I am the six year old girl
Behind the glass window
That wide open wedge to the north
From inside my...
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Categories:
anxiety, child, death,
On My EpitaphOn my epitaph don't write I was a saint,
When I actually know I ain't,
I was a vulture,
Disrespectful, refused to follow culture,
Write...
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Categories:
absence,