Star Funeral Poems

Another star is twinkling now,
From the sky at night,
For your soul has flown to Heaven
And there it shines so bright.

You could not have been more...

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Let's cast these words at a funeral like shards in clay pots
like hard sounds n bright noise of memories of this lot 

of feelings real...

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He doesn’t remember 
his great grandfather
who passed away when he was five
He can’t recall the wooden heart 
he painted in a kaleidoscope of colors
that his...

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Watching the horizons 
as the waves crash… 
The sun dies its elegant death 
of golden blood 
upon the distant shores. 
It washes jade green and...

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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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9/22/1983

I drove your shining,Cadillac, Daddy!
The lead car to the cemetery.
A stuffed bear, your Borsalino,
In the August, back window,fino!

You, in the hearse, a few feet behind..
Tears...

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A pro all the way
from serve to volley

Rod Laver's not one, but two, calendar grand slams
buried under pseudo-tennis-intellectual flimflam...

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In my magical garden,                     ...

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Ma,
Leaping off the crown of a candle,
A hot bead without hold or handle,
Blobbed as us all on the bee-smell body of a star.

Air,
Shushing from the...

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PLATO EPIGRAM TRANSLATIONS

These epitaphs and other epigrams have been ascribed to Plato...

Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be,
But go with good fortune: I...

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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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Sonnets XLII-LI

Distances
by Michael R. Burch

Moonbeams on water?
the reflected light
of a halcyon star
now drowning in night...
So your memories are.

Footprints on beaches
now flooding with water;
the small, broken...

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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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