Time Epitaph Poems

infant sucked up in red waters
old buried in the red pools
it's a pity 
on a black day
dies Mr pity 
on a pity day
in a pity...

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Dreams of tropical beaches
The dead won't let me sleep
Money got me always on my feet
A certain gift a contempt behind closed doors
The sweetness of life...

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If there were no tomorrow
I would have no sorrow
The life I have had
Has made me glad
If there were no tomorrow
I have lived on time that...

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My epitaph writ large...
courtesy third person singular.

Mise en scène pour décès
pardon his feeble attempt at French,
a unilingual English language
quibbling, and scribbling mensch
strongly advises applying
left handed...

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For Memorial Day, 2023...


Rest now
The wind knows your name
It is heard in the song it sings to the stars
Now you can rest
And rest assured that...

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I want to run from the grief,
from the crippling and the tears.
But that dread is a secret thief -
out to steal away the memories, the...

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They nagged him till he'd had enough.
His one remaining joy was snuff.
Beyond the post that ends his race
he has found a better place.
This is no...

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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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No time left to beg or borrow.
Here lies my friend; bone and marrow.
A quiet place finally found.
A soul at peace in hollow ground.
His headstone placed...

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I
Madiba, you inspired this world  like never before
An African George Washington & Lumumba
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela of South Africa
Yet crossing borders, bashing down walls
Smiling, beaming,...

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Born the son of a digger in country SA
A tough childhood leaving home at 16 to find his way
His course was set early on 
When...

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Common Wisdom is not really either. For example ..
1. Let the past bury the past

Can not be done that way.
Use funeral parlors, or celebrate a...

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Here lie the remains of Hector O. Swift
Someone gave him an explosive gift
Seems Hector got quite a lift
He had no time to even feel miffed
Through...

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BUTCHER PETE

In the vault below lies the mince, of butcher Pete
Got dragged into a meat processor by the soles of his feet.

RADIOACTIVE  SCUM

The Russian...

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Here lies Emmett Kermit Lavender
Whose time was summarily cut short
When he insulted his English professor
With an unnecessarily caustic retort 

written April 26, 2022...

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