Funeral Inspiration Poems

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In my talk with a tree, I said,
“Sacrifice, thy name is tree;
For us, everything of you is...

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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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The last breathe
The last death
The last phone call
The last fall
The last funeral
The last burial
The last roll
The last poll
The last smile
The last style
The last flight
The last...

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A child at his uncle's funeral.
A man once vibrant, now cold and still.
Fear and dread, a fate for all.
"Don't want to die!" The plaintive shout....

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The Light Poem:  by Shawn Wilkinson

I’ve done the hard work.
My chains are Freed
I’m am relieved
I’m a new person indeed.

Free to make new choices
Out of...

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If you cannot carry on anymore,
It's okay to halt, don't condemn yourself with abhor.
Let your pain be burnt up like a corp in the funeral...

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A chrome gun glittering 
in the hot sun raise, rays radiating 
like a heliographic rainbow,
drawn from shimmering halos 
of inferno light, hot.

White smoke from a...

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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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Ghosts in Gray Rains.
All along the rain swept street
Crowed With Ghosts of Lost Sovereign thoughts.
Shadows are carved hard, 
sharp by
Neon Bars. 
My mind wanders in...

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This is dedicated to my Aunt Diane who passed away on 9/16/21. you will truly be missed... I love you and rest in peace.

As I...

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“What to look for in a God?”  

I asked holding a lightning rod  

“Who said this?” 

A spirit whose message seemed to be...

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Staring into the Void of a White Room,
Trying to see imagery coalesce from infinity 
Mind rims with fear, red sears the horizon, insanity!
Lookin into nothing...

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Only an echo is left
in the halls distant in the falls
void for trapings and all
drifts through the moments like shadows
awaking dreams 
the razor of reality...

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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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when funeral fire consumed his mortal remains,
roaring flames burnt his bodily musical domains,
peering through the glass portal one could see fires lash,
every inch reduced to...

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