Brother Funeral Poems

These are modern English translations of ancient Egyptian Harper's songs. 

Harper's Song: Tomb of Djehutiemheb
translation by Michael R. Burch

The sky is opened for you,
the earth...

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Time for a sermon and a goodbye
It’s a solemn day 
One to ponder upon
On the meaning life brings

To our doorstep is pain and suffering
Some joys...

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Police grabbed mahsa and forced her to sit in Police vehicle.Her brother tried to intervene but his arm was twisted behind his back.After he disentangled...

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Pete had an ordinary funeral, nothing ostentatious or showy.
Two straight backed strangers appeared in his small Iowa church.
They were dressed in Air Force uniforms.
They hugged...

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Please Don't take that chance away from your kids ,make good choices for yourself for them : My Dad, my Dad didn't have much just...

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To access the house there was a slight slope from the sidewalk, the door was in the gap under the stairs that led to the...

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I
small father, The Arch is missed even by Dalai Lama, Buddhists
this writer loves Israel, but Tutu cried for Palestine, fellow-activists
my truth: the Arch gave me...

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I was five, you, ten years older
And you had me straddling
 The saddle of your broad shoulders
You, charging like a stallion, around 
The suburban garden,...

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In my magical garden,                     ...

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Journey man
Chef of Choral cuisine
Sunset at Dusk
Drained of Melanin
A voice heard across generations
Stilled in immirimious waters
Strange silence 
As hearts fearfully flutter
What deafening silence is this?
An...

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I loved him more than he might have known
With all my heart… I had loved him and grown
Accepting of his problems, his pain and sorrow
All...

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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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Guy Fawkes' Night 

By the middle of October the piles are growing.
English weather fails to dampen
childhood enterprise.
Gangs traverse the streets in forage
To drag, on broken...

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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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