Tribute Epitaph Poems

sagger maker’s bottom knocker from barnsley
one of the last of a now dead trade
famed for his skill and precision
where ever saggers were made
forced to redundancies...

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Epitaph for the Test Dogs

What you did for us, not many know,
because you did it so long ago.
Victoria’s reign to flapper days,
you lived in labs...

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His “words hit the highway like a battering ram”
And “burn like the metal on the edge of a knife”
So “cold and lonely in the deep...

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Here lies incomparable, trailblazer Sir Sidney Poitier
In the pantheon of Hollywood legends, he's at top tier
With 1963 Best Actor Oscar win, he made history;
First Black...

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Captain Tom was an inspiration and became an overnight celebrity
Walked with the aid of a frame raising thirty million pounds for charity
He was ninety nine...

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Archbishop Tutu you forever changed our world
Dear advocate for freedom and peace
Your legacy and values will live on forever
In those whose hearts you touched and...

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Just 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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Model and singer Nick Kamen
Best known for stripping off his jeans
In a Levi’s 501 jeans commercial
Using Laundromat machines

A Celebrity Epitaph Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Michelle Faulkner
01/10/22...

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Rest in peace,  Ms. Cicely Tyson
You embodied elegance and grace
Your portrayal of Ms Jane Pittman
was top notch, I bid you farewell 

















01/09/2022
Contest: A Celebrity...

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A beloved king~Prince Philip,                     ...

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Desmond Tutu strove hard to battle desultory extremity?
Humanity's hurdle is to sustain and esteem diversity.

One day, He saw a "Whites Only" sign on the exterior...

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Christopher Plummer's good looks and talent took him far in this world,
born in Toronto Canada, he became an actor of film, TV and stage;
received the...

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    There sat in opulent xanadu, the 
 demagogue of empirical hedonism, 
his granary once fuelled regal reign of epicureanism:

gregarious, restive, much-awaited...

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FRAGILE FREEDOMS
Lost in France,
Resting 
    'neath a simple cross,
Just name,nationality and rank;
Giving of life,was his loss.

At home,
A breaking,aching heart;
A sweetheart's pain;
Her emptiness...

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