Beach Funeral Poems

A hero to a little boy,
Smartest man in the world, so full of joy.
Big HOUSE! Big beard. Big Family! Big belly!!
“I love you son.” “I...

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Ancient Greek and Roman Epigrams

That country wench bewitches your heart?
Hell, her most beguiling art’s
hiking her dress
to seduce you with her ankles' nakedness!
Sappho, fragment 57, loose...

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Ancient Greek and Roman Epigrams

Stranger, rest your weary legs beneath the elms;
hear how coolly the breeze murmurs through their branches;
then take a bracing draught from...

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In my magical garden,                     ...

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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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“History, is a nightmare from which I’m trying to awake.” -James Joyce

A burnt blonde freckled white man stands in a white bathing suit
With red raw...

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At a funeral we,                     ...

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My loving friend I could depend
Out for lunch, shopping and talking              ...

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from an eternal rule:
the touch of vulnerability.

We cry.  A miracle
so difficult!  And blew my eyes
saying, 'Dead is a miracle
feeling no pain'
toward my pain...

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Jump up and down like a jackrabbit
running through meadows
running from what?
Could it be heartbreak,
a venemous snake that hides in the grass,
hiding with fangs ready to...

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A full moon night
to my delight
what is so wrong
with doing what's right
nothing is right
after so long
no use in complaining
time to move on

The Dream Water one...

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The water in my chest,
And my eyes, they burn,
Lungs burst for air,
They are losing all their turn.

My eyes see the light,
That swims in the water,
And...

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Under a free sky — today on a beach in Australia—
I gathered from a white sand beach—ancient, sea-worn shells.

Another world away they gathered up
the siege-worn...

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I need to heal and fast,
I can feel the time running out, all too soon.
But can't push myself out of the agony,
The threads of pain...

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