Animal Eulogy Poems

See them dressed in colors soldiers, regiment, British royal guards, guard bearskin, grandier guards, Buckingham palace guards dressed in scarlet red walking behind the queen’s...

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They said you were just a dog… I told them you were my joy, my boy – Quote by poet

I came to you in a...

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A season of sadness
A season of sorrow
No one knows what tomorrow
Will bring at this hour of madness
A president is being impeached
Lots of foolish wars are...

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I. April 6, 2022

Cows, fowl on road
Not by will, with pigs - business -
Of life and death

II April 6, 1652
From Holland, van Riebeeck
Europe's willing men,...

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. for public domain

Two faces peering out a window,
of a cottage nestled in a wood,
much quieter than the Admiral Benbow,
no road markers to where it...

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in electric nightmares of horrors unseen 
we will know the hour of our demise. 
We huddle in fear and terror. 
Something scratches at the door...

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(1)
Strophe
Slowly and slowly fly the mighty feathers:
the uncanny wrath bearer, the poacher's prey,
the bald bizzare stigmatic cryptic creature, the ecology's majestic role player;
the curtain raiser...

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Invaluables
milestone apprentices
we filter our times...

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We are the soldiers who have no voice
In war or peace, we have no choice
Yet we toil and fight alongside men
We do all we do,...

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Grim reaper scion donned as nodule on lung...

Lodged squarely upon corporeal property
(i.e. necessary soft tissue)
of Amelie Beth Harris-McGeehan
mine eldest sister,
when medical technician informed
aforementioned unpleasant tidings
earlier...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Athenian Epitaphs II

These are ancient Greek epitaphs for lost family and friends, including dogs and other animals ...

Now his voice is prisoned in the silent...

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Oh poor mouse
You picked the wrong house
No Buddhist I
Though I did nearly cry
When I wrought your end
I’m a treacherous friend
You begged to be my pet
I’m...

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Podcast lesson (re)learned today...

(May 6,2020) for umpteenth time,
no deliberate attempt to rhyme
rather to express satisfying reason
incalculable absolute value prime
mate (me) derived bliss oh so divine.

Fresh...

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Polar bear
Sapped
Dreary 
Thin

Visible world falling apart
Real time tragedy

Climate change shackles to fasten him to numbing hunger
Ragged white fir coat growling through its misery
A broken grimness...

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