Long Celebration of life Poems

I've been watching the people across the street for about a year now. We wave at each other every once in a while, not really much more than seeing a familiar face without a name....

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A society
culture
religion
humane species
forgetting,
or more likely under-valuing,
how to regeneratively suffer loss
may never have learned to face our universal fear of death
as a badge of permaculturing respect,
dignity through suffering sacred absence
where once we knew nondual co-arising relational...

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If I only had a few more minutes before you passed away
I'd tell you all the things I didn't get to say
I'd sit down with you and reminisce about our cape cod days
Go over one...

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                              Everyone 
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Dearest Cousin Madelyn,


Let’s sit in the rowboat, near the dawn’s verdant shore.
Where a squirrel sits under the Oak, that we once...so adored!


We can discuss music, or our fabulous families’activities.
Later, listen to jazz, Dave Brubeck, who...

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I often ponder as I lay awake and let my mind wonder, what beauty realy is.
If it is truly only in the eye of the beholder? am I then blind when I hold her? 
Embrace...

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The stage was being set. 
I needed to get out of the way so that I 
Would not end up squashed by the stage's immense size.
Yet even as the edges of the stage did nudge...

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Father’s day…
That old familiar ache in my heart returns along with a lump in my throat. 
I become distant  as that day grows closer, not taking in much of anything
 anyone has to say...

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Next day after the funeral was a celebration of life
at Mom's/Grandma's for a grand supper with memories ripe
afterwards eldest suggested we take some memento's 
going through her things I felt like I was pilfering,

To think...

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Today began with a beautiful sunrise at my home
Shades of bright orange shined in the dark
It was the early hours of the day for celebration of a life
As I traveled to the church, I passed...

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CRICKETS IN HEAD
I’m a NeoPagan
From the Church of All Worlds
Dedicated to the celebration of Life.
I’m set on a land in the long run
Looking for crackets.
The brooms come higher that I expected
And the hole throws up...

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Here are my instructions for when I leave this world to go into the “magic realm of possibilities”, the heaven on another plane. For it will be so much better, it will make this Earth...

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Extraordinaire, he raised the ice.
He told me this when I was a child.
He said he heard his neck pop.
He laughed and said, “That stopped my dare devil’s persona.
As you see, I am short.
I liked to...

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In Sadness and Sorrow I Now Weep

I   In sadness and sorrow I now weep
N  Never to see the one I loved so deep
S  Saddened, cry weary eyes in retrospect 
A ...

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So close, 
    all the prep and anticipation 
    aching to be set free with adulation,
    shimmer, sparkle, scintillating inclinations 
    push pulling...

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Dia De Los Muertos or Day Of The Dead - November 1st and 2nd All Day Saints

La Cavalera Catrina 1910-1930:
An etching by cartoonist and lithographer, José Guadalupe Posada
Of a Garbancera, elegant skull, an upper-class woman...

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Girls Gone Wild
Careful, you may just have a child 
Drugs and alcohol plague the alleyway 
Stay away as there is a price to pay
Is the meaning of Mardi Gras to go buck wild
Let’s look and...

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In the school, we played together.
The celebration of life we lived together. 
All the years yearning for a better life.
You were the true treasure of our life.
That we will never take it for a ride.
Goodbye,...

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Shameless,
we admit 
living Earth chauvinism.

Our home
and favorite planet,
better, not necessarily bigger,
in our collective opinion,
than all other revolving planets,
stars,
suns, 
satellites,
moons
orbiting through four dimensioned images
flowing maps
expanding frames
dynamic paradigms

More nurturing to us
than all stale constellations combined,
unchanging orthodoxy,
staid stillness
of...

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Ballroom Delights

Bright and colorful like a rainbow in blue sky,
spacious space for special souls and selected 
sounds and songs of summer nights.
Glorious room packed with excitement
and sizzling souls eager to ride the wave of 
dance...

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*Celebration of the life for a dear friend who recently passed.

My dear friend; calm, patient and positive
A giving person who sacrificed and served in faith
You will be in my heart forever, through it all
I celebrate...

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I'm a believer in a higher power,
a power greater than myself, but I'm 
infinitely more spiritual than religious.

Through the lens of my belief system, 
I search to find meaning in life 
and what matters most...

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If I would have known you wouldn’t be here 
I would have stopped worrying about the small stuff 
I would have held you tighter and said “I love you “more often 
If I would have...

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My body lives here, but my soul is absent. 

My soul lives…

 

Where “I love you” has meaning.

Where parenthood is an honor and a privilege. 

Where a house is a home.

Where the best meal is...

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We have a beautiful liturgy
so dramatic and impressive 
that one may be glued to it,
be involved and participate.

It presents a new movement,
along with its recurring theme,
a celebration of life and promises
that God, our Savior, makes...

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