Animal Funeral Poems

I spied a valley low
Across the road from the cemetery
A Columbus monkey swinging by
The trees of the valley
Stood tall and forlorn
Observing the crematorium
Covered in light...

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Statistics, ciphering and accounts are copied and transcribed
                 from...

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Wings black as midnight draw back 
from infernos façade 
Secret devices sharp, 
keen of talons and man-made MAW 
EYES; Scarlet, pumpkin fire orange at the...

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Last night, Libby, 
I dreamed you brought my little dog Okuni 
to visit me for a little while. 
Thank you. I'm hoping dreams are real....

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We dream of reason 
A dry season
a setting of the western sun
A dark wraith 
a bold hold of hands-on high
A reason for the gun
A black...

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There are no words from poetry to purify the 
heart, can’t rock the mic with headache, the irony
of it all, its the beauty from women...

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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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Athenian Epitaphs II

These are ancient Greek epitaphs for lost family and friends, including dogs and other animals ...

Now his voice is prisoned in the silent...

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Somebody please vaccinate my mind
I don't trust my senses and I'm going blind
I'm being passed up, getting left behind
Somebody out there, vaccinate my mind

Somebody please...

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At a funeral we,                     ...

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You sit and stare
upon your dish,
no strength to bear
even as I wish.

For you to live
forever strong
were mine to give
your life prolong.

But being neither 
here nor...

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Author Dana Redricks 
March 13, 2019 

I wish we were here 
with us but now you're
but now gone to a better 
place I wish I...

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I Don't Want to Live This Life

(Change of pace equals review of book
long out of circulation,
but eyes experience immediate hook
so perhaps...take a look
and best locate...

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the skin on the floor
does not lumber down the hill
blackberries ripen


July 5, 2018...

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Well, here I am.
I never expected it to happen this soon,
but I passed away last weekend.

Stupid horse,
I told them I didn't like horses,
too much power...

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