Teen Eulogy Poems

It’s a firework holiday,
so let’s light up the night,
wave the stars and stripes,
eat barbecue and drink bud light.

We’ll celebrate the liberties
that SCOTUS says we’ve still...

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I cannot forget Trayvon Martin - slain teen

no matter manifold more young people
unthinkingly killed, who spirits aspire
to ascend higher than a steeple.

revisited and slightly revised...

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Don - they tell me you're leaving
I can't believe it's true,
that we’ll get to live without you.

You’ll go away - govern-mentally,
after all this pain and...

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We hurtle down the last few hundred feet 
of steep lavender lined cobbled slope 
shaded by majestic umbrella pines - around
a last hairpin turn and...

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Anna Hanson died on her birthday,  
“She had a seizure, swallowed her tongue.”
three hours before her 13th year had begun.

“What is epilepsy?” We needed...

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ONE LAST TEAR---



Upon my arrival
       here on this earth
out of my mother's womb
      ...

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Everything was light, in dark
Gonna be all right; ( thus I spoke);

God has brought me through the storm;

The night has dawn, no more tears, I've...

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The pictures on the wall,
I pasted when I was small.
Those paintings I had made
Of stones like Ruby or Jade.

Some diaries could be seen,
I wrote when...

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Dedicated to my dearly loved and departed cousin Johnnie
who passed away peacefully in his sleep. I love you Johnnie. 
I hope that now you will...

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 Elegy To Love

Shy glances from o’er ones shoulder
Longer looks that become bolder
Grade school crushes, Painful blushes
Turn to longing… as one grows older

Strangers still (but...

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