School Funeral Poems

Written in memory of a sweet young girl 1905-1918 R.I.P. Always.
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Miraculous indeed, you must have done some very good deed to be one with the heavens and an accomplice with the devil. Your fountains are...

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Yet another soul taken away.
Another family's loss is great.
Another time tears rolled down this face.
Why won't they realize its purpose and quit making these mistakes...

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I call you ekwensu
Because you are the witch doctor
Who conjures with paper and pen the oracles of the muse.

You are the pharmacist
Who knows best the...

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Alzheimers 
Some say Alzheimers took you,
But I simply don't agree,
Yes you didn't recognise my face,
But your heart remembered me. 

I never saw you as a...

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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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GOODBYE TIM

The time has now come 
To say goodbye to you
Death was unexpected 
The good Lord only knew

Your soul was already gone
When your body was...

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To be first, that’s the key.
I should be first, mom and
dad were first before I 
was born.  I enjoy firsts.

First in the door, front...

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In my magical garden,                     ...

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The biggest funeral I've ever attended...


Thelma was a waitress at the diner on the corner of 4th and Oak, across from Ron’s DX, in Abilene.
They...

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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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The funeral procession 
Moved in silence
Through the empty lane;
Otherwise,
A busier street of,
Puddles during rain,
And those buzzing horns off,
On all by-lanes,
Gave no goosebumps,
As always.
	
The sumptuous ride,
of...

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Nowhere

Unremembered moments, 
"lived through" over the years...
trying to fit in, 
to make sense.

Demands from the outside, 
everyone looking in. 
Someone is running, 
around... but they...

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In Our Hearts (Legacy)

When we lay you, gently,
in the most glorious mahogany box.
And you are borne high on shoulders of six pallbearers.
When we march, lazily,...

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At a funeral we,                     ...

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