Wedding Eulogy Poems

I feel so small and so insignificant
Waves so tall like white wall magnificent
Smelling new blue rain coming fast
Feeling pink pain in my bones so bad

Memories...

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She wants freedom to touch her
She wants symbols to wear
Sailors at dawn
Bear no response
As if they’re not there

She repairs to the ceiling 
As the walls...

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Sidewalk spring rain steps
years of tetter-totter angst
Main St. love apocalypse
Relationship on the rocks
Haystack needle search weary...

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PLATO EPIGRAM TRANSLATIONS

These epitaphs and other epigrams have been ascribed to Plato...

Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be,
But go with good fortune: I...

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Death
by Rabindranath Tagore
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
 
You who are the final fulfillment of life,
Death, my Death, come and whisper to me!
Day after day...

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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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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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She is one of many, dear Eleanor secluded 
in her secular sepulcher,
One of the lonely plenty, a regular within the 
   anonymous atoms...

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Behold the cloud of love between
The sea and us the love songs of
The sea birds to our hearing like a
Child beckoning on the mother for
Her...

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Morning funeral 
He was eighty-six
Ready to go, angry about everything.
Tired of being here, irritated he cannot drive any more
Thrilled to go, probably driving a race...

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When I receive old magazines the first thing I seek as I flip through the pages, I find
Are the advertisements that bring to my mind...

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For thirteen long years he patiently wooed, 
                 ...

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Dry rotted benches all splintered and frail. 
Transparent spirits fill the isles and the air. 
   In the old decrepit church they try...

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because God's love thrives
we are blessed with special people
who greatly enhance our lives
making life more wonderful
         ...

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~My Bereaving Eulogy~ 


Time seemed to pass so much faster than I expected,
All the love, loss, passion and...

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