Write Funeral Poems

To whom it may concern,
For time will surely tell,
I write to my loved ones
To say that I am well.

I scarcely can recall
A time more I...

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Saying Goodbye

I am bad about saying goodbye. 
I hate doing it. 
I don't want to do that, 
at all, ever!
It makes my heart heavy, 
my...

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Words never said

I remember the day we moved away
but I still had a lot to say.
Even though I knew I was oceans away
and would probably...

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"Mom, you are gone to heaven above but not forgotten, missed 
every moment of every day.  You are not with me in this...

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Now rest your weary eyes,
For the long day is through.
You sought a golden prize,
Under skies of azure blue.

The pebbles in the sand,
Were the riches to...

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Pages of your book
By Michelle Morris
09/09/2022

The snowflakes come down 
Like a flurry of white hope
Upon the grave that we stand around
The ground silent like our...

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Ashes and Thirst

Evil comes in all shapes, and all sizes. 
We have all heard this many times... before. 
But how truly large, or small can...

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Deprived (sleep)

The small green light
on the radio dial... 
glares at me in the dark. 
It is like a lazar light show going off. 
I threw...

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Funeral parlour

A man who has spent his whole life as a seafarer
inherited his uncle´s funeral home, s his uncle had said.
The business was rather slow...

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The early hours of a Wednesday morning in a small country town.
An 18-year-old boy struggles to sleep
He had pain so bad 
all he could do...

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THE STENCH OF DEATH,
It started in china, It started in Wuhan, It visited Italy,
It visited the mighty land of the POTUS, It is here and...

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with the corona virus upon us
I am bracing to hear the news
that so and so has died

I reflect back
on all the people in my life
that...

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Papa's condemnation of prejudice...

and subsequent grim statistic one
(among millions, or more)
tragedy with feted kiss
Yarraka Bayles darling son
hoop fully experiences bliss,
yet more vehement rage
against machinations (think...

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WHY I LOVE *****  SPIRITUALS   

I know why we sang those songs;
Why I LOVE ***** Spirituals-
I have a spiritual 
connection to
those songs...

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Martial epigram translations

Epitaph for the Child Erotion
by Marcus Valerius Martial
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Lie lightly on her, grass and dew...
So little weight she placed...

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