Funeral Father Poems

Elegy for a little girl, lost
by Michael R. Burch

. . . qui laetificat juventutem meam . . .

She was the joy of my youth,
and now...

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Martial epigram translations

You never wrote a poem,
yet criticize mine?
Stop abusing me or write something fine
of your own!
?Martial, loose translation by Michael R. Burch

He starts everything...

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El dolor llega, una vez más
El suelo brilla por la lluvia
El invierno está terminando, la primavera está cerca
El cielo está triste por que sabe que...

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8 Dec 2019  12:23 PM

If today were my funeral and all who knew me came
What would you say how would you feel and would...

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Thinly lined eyelids seal the window to his soul.
His cheeks sink in, countenance concealed and dull.
His still lips wrinkle down to a frown, without tone.
With...

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Rifles cracked
A bugle played
I stood in the grass
Beside your grave

My eyes were dry
I couldn’t cry
My lack of grief
Was justified

In your presence
I treaded soft
Never knowing
What’d set...

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Ghosts in Yakima

Walking along a graveyard
Looking for my father’s grave
Seeing all the gravestones

I begin to sense the spirits
Of the restless dead
They linger around the graveyards

Waiting...

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"I look at Uncle Roger as a blessing to our family, for he taught our family to view all people with more humanity." (loosely quoted,...

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NEVER MAKE A PROMISE 


Never made a promise, a promise can be broke
A father says to his son see you later I promise 
7 hours...

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Ashes to ashes, and dust to dust
my tears can not come, but I know they must.

Ashes to ashes, and dust to dust,
of my father, speak...

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Fall is here again with the  
Saturday morning routine of paper and coffee.
A chance to sit and breathe,
halfway there....

Remembrances come unbidden
of mother lying on...

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He died as he lived
Without making waves
Without fanfare
A simple man
A humble man
A loving husband
And devoted father
A man of principles
Of integrity
A dreamer
A macgyver
Determined
To live with integrity
And...

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Perdition Be Damned!

Body electric zapped
lower gastrointestinal tract
wracked with wretchedness
pitted, rocked, and tortured
severe muscle spasms cramp
deathly hallowed deliverance

beseech divine creator to exorcise relief
any panacea trumpeted vetoed
pestilential...

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Freedom. 
How can I be free without her? 
I can’t see a future of freedom beyond these walls. 
Whips. Hits. Gashed lips. 
Another play of...

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Merciful Deceased Mother - Father T'will See Thee Anon

Atheism underscores bedrock
schema Holy Toledo
encompassing mine secular humanistic credo
simultaneously tricking elusive illusion, sans
supernal radiant quintessence

blasting damn ming...

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No Vanity Set For This Chap, No Way
(in praise of immortality)

Modesty an understatement,
when eyes chance
to look askew at looking glass,
mine reflection caught at a glance,
an...

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Dear Son
even I am long gone
dead and buried
please son take heed
the good lord will plead
good deeds do matter
sin will land you in the hereafter
down under...

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9/23/1989 - 1/09/2009

Grief dropped like a huge guillotine
 on the world of me, my daughter and wife.
My son Caleb was only nineteen,
 when too soon...

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     My Chief ...

Thoughts go back to it again, the day you found me on the plain,
   Bloody from...

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A Prayer Answered

I used to live in a bubble, fun filled and care free
But now my life is similar to autumn leaves under an oak...

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