Funeral Friendship Love Poems

This piece was inspired by the fond memory I have of an incredibly kind and modest elderly gentleman that was known for helping any and...

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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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ON LOOKING AT SCHILLER’S SKULL
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Here in this charnel-house full of bleaching bones,
like yesteryear’s
fading souvenirs,
I see the...

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THE STENCH OF DEATH,
It started in china, It started in Wuhan, It visited Italy,
It visited the mighty land of the POTUS, It is here and...

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(PROMP:[3:29am] angel!jeongin lies next to you and hugs you as you cry, telling you to stop missing him “it’s okay, I’m here” PROMPT CREDIT TO...

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Her name was Duno. She was seventy, young-at-heart, and hilarious.

We were co-Sunday School teachers, and the best of pals. I was twenty-three.

Fast-hurting-cancer smacked her around...

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I was asked to speak at a funeral
Shocking
As I barely knew the departed soul
Had dinner with her once many years ago
Always thought about doing it...

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I met Primrose as two of four unacquainted friends who were lurking around in a young widow’s house,
Doing whatever we could to help the children,...

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I met him on a summer’s day,
  when life seemed very far away

A home once mine when as a boy,
  I’d lived and...

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THERE IS ONE IN OUR COMMUNITY. 
SHE IS DAZZLING AND PRETTY SIMPLY GORGEOUS FOR REAL. 
HER WAY IS THAT OF DARKNESS AND SHE DESCENDS TO...

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