Christmas Eulogy Poems

Forgive me
Oh gentle tree
As I strip away
Your garland glory
Your ornamental tinsel dress
Laid plucked and bare
Prepared to rest

And I thank you
For your evergreen light
As hope illuminated
Against...

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A joy it is to see
planted in his honor
A Memorial Tree
Roots, memories of Milton
and a kind act for the ecosystem
Forget-Me-Nots shall be written
by your poetry...

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Do not be stress
God will provide a way 
When you touch the cross
Money is coming your way.

When God is on your side
You will never be...

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Final Lullaby
by Michael R. Burch

for my mother, Christine Ena Burch

Sleep peacefully—for now your suffering’s over.

Sleep peacefully—immune to all distress,
like pebbles unaware of raging waves.

Sleep peacefully—like...

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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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You do it for me, better than tea,
better than Camembert, or a nice runny Brie.
Better than honey, or marmalade toast
or an unexpected letter that arrives...

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Scales to Measure

We are not all equal. 
Some can dance on a wire...
above the crowd, 
Some can swim...
all the way to China. 
While others,
make food...

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New Moon new, new tune
It’s a lovely afternoon
New broom sweeping the town
And spiritual cleansing is scattered all around
The wind is blowing lightly 
And the race...

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Things of Need

When I open up my cupboard, 
I find it full of items, 
lost…and then found. 

This piece of glass, that item made of...

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 it is now time to remind myself
when you were here I held your hand
now that your gone I no longer can

And when you were...

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In a little public park
In the little town of Small
There's a little village square
Large enough to hold them all

And they meet there once each year
As...

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An Angel Amongst Us

Born on Christmas Day
there is no doubt 

That an angel she was on a 
long term leave from heaven

Her love was felt...

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Christmas Eve;
mired in her melancholy,
wrapped in present reveries
that she alone may open,
though there'll be no new surprises,
only loss, and somber songs 
to accompany the pictures...

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Oh how I remember him so tall and strong
He showed no fear when facing wrong
So it was no surprise to hear at all
My brother became...

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Grandfather
I cry, I hold it in, I cry. 
I hate the way I saw you tonight,
Wrapped up in wires,
Sleeping beneath the shut off lights,
But this...

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