Death Family Poems

The Cowboy
A hundred thousand miles
were written on his face
He'd earned near every wrinkle
Did this cowboy known as "Jace"
He'd ridden cross the country
From Death Valley up...

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He was light of Complexion
But that was only a Reflection
Laughingly he was not a complex Man
That was the fast race he Ran
On his feet he...

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[Please note, while this poem may seem harsh, my mother-in-law did much good in her long life, more than I expect I have. It was...

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So it's become aware
Another ounce of revolution to dare
A dream rather a statement once declared
False, now a lie
Hardly a surprise
Feels like that is my lot...

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He wrote a novel, with just 3 letters, on his headstone
A novel, that was different, to everyone
Timeless, yet eternally grateful
He left thanks, for all those...

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Why do some people show their emotional side
When a loved one dies
It's a time when family and friends have to try
To except that only God...

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It's been a year since you were gone.
Pain and regrets are still undone.
Up there with HIM,
I know you are at peace.
Somewhat I am happy
And I...

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A tenderness only he can explain,
Fluid like the rivers that filled his heart.

A free spirit, yet family played a constant role. 

Kicking back while the...

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Make Her Mine Real life Soulmate :(Poem)
On every page of my book of fate,
During my life, after my death,
In all my future, in all my...

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decide … phone people … arrangements need made …
cannot pick … call who … where … when … oh, casket …
My world just stray-shattered fully...

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IV.
When Reth walked back down to his battered friends,
he said,”I knew not that he was such a fool.
If I’d had known, I’d have led you...

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Charley

In Carolina a young man’s journey began.
Today in Mississippi was it’s end.
Dressed in the best he had, 
they returned an old man to the ground;
in...

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The firewood of this world is too heavy to bear
The worries of this world an everyday nightmare 
Like a spear it breaks through my sorrowful...

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The tears you shed for a fallen brother,
in grief, in pain, and in memoriam -
the look in the eyes of his mother.

The light revealed through...

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Wish i never would have left the house,
Our pride Our big Solanaceae family.
Never wished to bring dishonor to our family.
I just wanted to do something...

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They closed my mother's casket
to be buried next to Dad today.

The crowd  that came to honor her
began to walk away.

Nothing left but tiny breeze...

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My driveway is packed with the cars
of friends and family,
chips put out, and the little ones
are running joyously.

A cooler filled up with bag ice
keeps cold...

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  Another shooting
more innocent children dead
  guns for everyone
more families left grieving
  NRA now lobbying...

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‘Silence’ is their interim address
Where time like a river yet flows
Terrestrial dust returns once again
To the place whence all life grows,

Resting quietly in Death’s garden...

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