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If My Poems Were Eulogies

If being pretty were a crime, you’d already be behind the bars
Because angels look at their reflection and wish they had your smile
And I’m not sentimental, but to you I must confess:
I’ve waited ages to find someone whose beauty can compare 
If my poems were eulogies, you’d be nothing short of dead
Because not romanticizing you

Categories: eulogies, 11th grade, boy, crush,
Form: Free verse

Ancient Greek Epigrams I

Ancient Greek and Roman Epigrams I

Wall, we're astonished that you haven't collapsed,
since you're holding up verses so prolapsed!
Ancient Roman graffiti, translation by Michael R. Burch

You begrudge men your virginity?
Why? To what purpose?
You will find no one to embrace you in the grave.
The joys of love are for the living.
But in Acheron, dear virgin,
we shall all

Categories: eulogies, bereavement, death, eulogy, funeral,
Form: Epigram

Archaic Eulogies and Their Synergies

Live on Facebook
I post rubbish
To caress the spook
Who dares to finish

The sleep I lose
In the wee hours of nights
Disturbed by the booze
I swill in my fights

Against strictures
Society calls taboos
In lampoon literatures
That scorn the tattoos

Adorning my arms
My torso, my neck
Without the qualms
Society spots in a speck

Akin to a storm in the teacup
Society perceives in the freedom
I

Categories: eulogies, poems,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

The Eulogies

You listen to the eulogies
Describing someone’s life,
With focus on the happy times
But little on the strife… 

The anecdotes to make us laugh
And nod our heads – that’s him!
The picture boards depicting shots
When he was young and slim.

To capture who a person was
Once death has staked his claim
Is like watching reruns of the highlights
Of a tennis

Categories: eulogies, death of a friend,
Form: Rhyme

For Eulogies Upon Eulogies For Murdered Sons

FOR EULOGIES UPON EULOGIES
     FOR MURDERED SONS…

No eulogy can change the present or the past,
Neither charter the course of the future;
Nor coming resurrection.
No commentary can ease lingering pain
Nor the dejection of piercing grief.

For the widow and motherless,
Is there no shame?
What a mockery of free at last:
The confined grave, the only place

Categories: eulogies, bereavement, death, grief, hurt,
Form: Elegy

Eulogies

At funerals, we listen as
The anecdotes are shared.
Some speakers prattle off the cuff
While others are prepared.

The congregation laughs when tales
Embody the deceased.
Those chortles let the tears subside
As tension is released.

As relatives and friends reflect,
Each listener may wonder,
What stories will be told of me
When I’ll be six feet under?

A life that lasted decades
Leaves a void, to

Categories: eulogies, death, funeral, on writing
Form: Rhyme

Eulogies and Elegies

George
Carlin
Stand-up guy
Hippie-dippy
FM, AM, banned words, silly putty

Booze, pain-pills, expedited heart failure
untimely loss
bright void left
empty
still

By: Nancy Jones
For entry into Michael Falitico's "Smiles and Frowns" contest

Categories: eulogies, people
Form: Tetractys

Eulogies For the Recently Revived

Certain it is to be at steady aim
at any time
at any place
the dead mans eternal race

Shock the barstool
take the shots
given by the winged sculptures who gawk from the pughes
A pecking order in the house of flocks

Not important enough for dirt
decomposition of the minds eye comes last
Anatomy has no hidden agenda
just a set of character traits

Categories: eulogies, art
Form: Free verse

Eulogies?

those men of conscience
of whom where great
we rare give tribute
till them be late

Categories: eulogies, death, life, philosophy,
Form: Epigram