Long Cortege Poems

See them dressed in colors soldiers, regiment, British royal guards, guard bearskin, grandier guards, Buckingham palace guards dressed in scarlet red walking behind the queen’s casket and reminiscing the dead. Their tall bearskin hat almost...

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The Gift
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The earth seems flat and Godot decided to arrive on the scene

Like a boil stuck on a pancake dressed as a trans gender carnival queen

He carries a prophecy written on a tag hung from his...

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On a Snow Full Moon
I walk the Path of Odin
Like an initiate I wear only a white robe

On a Snow Full Moon
I walk the Path of Odin
I am sacrificed


I walk through the city streets
followed by...

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Skipping stones across the still quite waters 

While as enclosed within these submerged thoughts....

Pondering this blanket of fogful mist alongst the path, have I tread and beared

As in time as in life as of recent...

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I attended a funeral today, for someone's loved one...
The room was full of garments of black, consoling gestures, and fond memories.
Tears were shed, sobbing was heard... but grief cannot be abated, with only a word.

Attentive...

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Mission half completed,
I’d watch from behind a tombstone quite a distance away,
the crowd gathered around my accomplishment
for someone else’s final resting place.
The cortege carried the coffin laid it at rest upon the slats,
tired repetitive words...

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I attended a funeral service today for someone's loved one.
The room was full of garments of black, consoling gestures, and fond memories.
Tears were shed, sobbing was heard...but grief cannot be abated with only a word.

Attentive...

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Johnny’s going home today
His glory days are past
His buddies stand at attention
Eyes tearful and downcast
The sound of taps is softly heard
The mournful tune rings true
And all rise to salute him
As his cortege comes in view

Another...

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she had lost the plot long before in an insane labyrinth of her mind

trapped in the rat race of high speed and the volume on full blast

incarcerated shackled and straight jacketed thumb screws and all

contorting...

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My funeral cortege has reached its destination
I see the serious visages of many,
And sniffs from the hearts of my cherished few.

My soul has a quick run through of my deeds 
Pride that I loved and...

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Time's flowing tributary; the future changes the past.
            Our burial cortege concludes its course at the graveyard.
Falling leaves collapse, crafting new fates; feel the...

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DESPERATION       V\S       PASSION


Desperation gives you coup de grace
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 Over the west Sun dies, oozing blood, 
The hillside glows in a ruddy blaze, 
Pink and crimson fade slowly around, 
And a pallid shade taints the twilight haze.

By and by, darkness descends like foggy...

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Over the west Sun dies, oozing blood, 
The hillside glows in a ruddy blaze, 
Pink and crimson fade slowly around, 
And a pallid shade taints the twilight haze.

By and by, darkness descends like foggy mist,...

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Danse Macabre

Twin Old Glorys jitterbug above the hoods as silent heralds; the motorcade 
congas three-abreast along the Stemmons Freeway sleek in shiny chrome.
Long honks and short beeps unite in harmonious homage 
to the office that...

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Funeral Cortege Sans Protocol

The autumnal equinox period 
Spells time for worship, pilgrimages
Rituals and a pandemonium
Of festivities and gay hyperactivities

The elephant godhead idol
Over decked, anointed
With all fervour is immersed 
In its watery bed amidst chantings
Its worshipped...

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This craggy place
vehemently clings to
dawn’s perpetual shadow,
the desolate wind arbitrates
with the warm body! Mine.
To the west grey stone
fuse with inhibited sky,
within the brownish bracken
sly vixen gives me a second look,
possibly doesn’t like
my scar fell face!
Alpine...

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DUCKS

Was it some sort of omen?
A northern albino cortege of two?

Two big white ducks
       (understand these were not geese)
Two BIG    WHITE    DUCKS ...

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AMERGIN
FIRST AND LAST
I am a tear:in tragedy's fear
I am the hope:when power cannot cope
I bring forth life: from the world's strife
I am the peace:that will never cease
I am the fire:in love's desire
I am the light:...

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ICE     FUNERAL


My River Smolenka has been free of ice now for weeks, but today 
I saw the flat smoothly-flowing river  steaming   grey  - 

Bearing  remnant ...

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THY KINGDOM COME

Partridge ey'd widow wailed
'Give me your life'
Pawn broker, hawkish, grunted
'Take the money and vanish'
Howling of contentious hyena
'Stop shadow games, get lost'
'A handicam', tweetering daughter
Son sneaking at late hours
Fumigating inside shut doors
Fatigue from farthest...

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Chariots of fire exercising this corteges march across times desert dunes....

Washing away fissions stygian trails amid diluvians merciful waters; tradewinds

Anointing blesseds spirits rising above what was and is but, tomorrows caskets

Gathering aneath carrions dust left...

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And some nights I did not sleep
While the rustling leaves still tell
Your footsteps of vengeance steep
In their dead cortege toll the knell
Of human trust and human peace.
And in all thy wickedness to excess
They flocked the...

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He was a man of many parts,
most of them didn't function too well.

Born extraordinarily, labeled ‘disabled,’
he lived a life of boisterous solitude.
Friends he had on the periphery
of a wheel-bound existence, lovers
were distant pen-pals
mostly gals.

Folks that...

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