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Zen Death Haiku
Zen Death Haiku

Brittle cicada shell,
little did I know
you were my life!
—Shuho, translation by Michael R. Burch

Returning
as it came,
this naked worm.
—Shidoken, translation by Michael R. Burch

As dew glistens
on a lotus leaf,
so too I soon must vanish.
—Shinsui,...

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Categories: death of a friend, age, autumn, bereavement, death, death of a
Form: Haiku



Epitaphs
Epitaph for a Palestinian Child
by Michael R. Burch

I lived as best I could, and then I died.
Be careful where you step: the grave is wide.



Autumn Conundrum
by Michael R. Burch

It's not that every leaf must finally...

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Categories: bereavement, death, death of a friend, depression,
Form: Epitaph
Sonnets Xlii-Li
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 ribcage
of some primitive slaughter...
So near, yet so far.



A Surfeit of...

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Categories: bereavement, death, death of a friend, funeral,
Form: Sonnet
Athenian Epitaphs Ii
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 pathways of the night: 
his owner's faithful Maltese... 
but will...

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Categories: animal, best friend, death of a friend,
Form: Epitaph
Premium Member Gilgamesh
Story has it you used your power to run amuck
Putting fear into the people, and brides in Uruk

So the people of Unuk pray to the sky God Anu
To sort out Gilgamesh, without any further ado...

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Categories: death of a friend, adventure, best friend, brother, character, death of
Form: Epic



CECYL, SON OF OUR SOIL : CONSUMMATE REVOLUTIONARY
{Poet’s Note : I wrote this poem for the passing of my very dear friend & comrade, Cecyl Esau, Umkhonto we Sizwe Commander in 2021, as a contribution to his memorial service. Cecyl was given...

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Categories: africa, allegory, character, death of a friend,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Mcgillicuddy's Wake
Two new crutches and two double shots of Bushmills Irish Whiskey enabled Joe Faherty to move from the back seat of Moira Murphy's 1976 Buick into Eagan's Funeral Home for Tim McGillicuddy's wake. At 87,...

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Categories: death of a friend, fantasy,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Bruce Walker, Elegy
My teacher died.
   
   His lungs failed him.

He taught me that the lungs
harbor grief.

   His lungs are gone.
My grief has only just arrived.


   He used his lungs...

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Categories: death of a friend, love, teacher,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member JIMMY
After my young wife died tragically, I decided to move away
Memories we made in our house were painful; I couldn’t stay
I’d often remember that phone call from her doctor who’d said
"John, you need to get...

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Categories: america, boy, death, death of a friend,
Form: Narrative
The Murderers Cry
Haven’t you had enough blood from the beginning of time?
Haven’t you taken enough lives before they should have died?
All around I can hear their cry 
They want to escape from the under world
You spill blood...

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Categories: death of a friend, betrayal, break up, bullying, conflict, death of
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Rearrange The Hurt
Kate:
Stand tall,
Light - Line falling
The sun is calling
So lets ride the rain and go
Let’s go

Lets ride, Michelle
Lets ride

Michelle:
Kate took control of every trip,
We took,
Buying into non-conformity,
She drove us,
She rode us,
She saved us
And once we were...

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Categories: anxiety, death of a friend, friendship, growth,
Form: Rhyme
The Soul Errand and Other Poems
The Soul Errand
To Sir Walter Raleigh Tomb.

Since my soul shall though go
Upon a thankless arrent too
I fear not to touch the best so
The truth shall be my warrant through 
I went since I need must...

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Categories: death of a friend, africa, beautiful, beauty, child, death of a
Form: Ballad
Premium Member The Man At the Bus Stop
After I came home from work one day, and sitting down for tea
I looked out the window, and was surprised to see
A person sitting out there, as if waiting for a bus
The last one for...

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Categories: bereavement, death of a friend,
Form: Ballad
Cladestine
THE CHIMNEY
The once fine air, refreshens with dust
Between the village horizon and crest
Since the sailing of a death chemical chimney.

Young green plants seedlings growing on slope
Are left to sip these  carcinogenic dusts, sapling
And entwined...

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Categories: corruption, death of a friend, depression, emotions,
Form: Prose Poetry
Thanos As a Victim, Human Predicament In the Avengers: Infinity War
Spoilers ahead....... 
Spoilers ahead .......

Thanos may be the villain but have you ever wondered why?. Nobody out of the blue starts to hate every entire race. He was the Victim of the theory of human...

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Categories: death of a friend, anxiety, character, dark, daughter, death, death of
Form: Prose
Today I Will Wander To the Brothel
today i will wander to the brothel
those divine friends of Jesus
where i will intercourse
with the ladies in my growing Spanish
write some lines to ponder
while they wash clothes and bathe
i the balneologist with the brandy
we watch...

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Categories: anger, death of a friend, forgiveness, friend,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Blame
[Non-Fictional Preface: Fictional Old Folks Home/Apparition] "This is the story of two friends, both considered themselves start-up writers, whereas, one who was a bit more of an upstart, was merely known as, Robert Frost. Frost's...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: confusion, death of a friend, emotions, forgiveness,
Form: Narrative
The Day Before You Died
Remember the day before you died? Your heart reeked of mania. The way you lied about your whereabouts broke my world into a mangling mess. Who cleaned up my mess? It used to be you....

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: death of a friend, sister, suicide,
Form: Verse
The Battles the World Has Seen
the bombs 
the guns 
the blood shed
no humanity done
all is lost
under the strick and pain
of all the bombs 
every day 
WW1 WW2 
the Cold War 
nothing is new
death for nothing
revolution you say 
killing hundred of...

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Categories: dark, death, death of a friend, depression,
Form: I do not know?
Like Rabbit In a Headlight Caught
PTSD

Like rabbit in the headlight caught
I want to move, i know I ought
But quicksand stuck, I’m petrified 
My body still, arms laid by side
Stretched out on mattress, naked, soaked
From sweat in which my body’s cloaked
My eyes...

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© Nigel Gray  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: anxiety, death, death of a friend, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member All Alone
I heard that you were dying, and I wanted to reach out, but it had been years since we had spoken and this in my mind planted doubts
I should have just gone against my better...

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Categories: death of a friend,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Mother's Death In Iii Parts
Part I:  My mother’s Voice. 
  
“There’s something not quite right.” 
My mother’s doctor said.
The murmur in your heart.
I think we’ll  make a start, 
to take a look, and book a bed...

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Categories: cry, death, death of a friend, loss,
Form: Narrative
A Tribute To Heather
"A Tribute to Heather "
It all started 38 years ago
December 11 
An angel was sent from heaven 
From the time she came out the womb
She was special , she was unique
she was a queen
she lit...

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Categories: age, death, death of a friend, friend,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Difference In the Stories We Want To Tell
Ohh I could have sat with my heart 
--elevated with dribbled echoes-- 
ahhhhhh until it yet exhaled the tarnished seams 
capturing only the quiet current lapping
and soaking dirty steel embankment	
along the river’s edge beneath the...

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Categories: death of a friend, music, nostalgia, river,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Defiant Miniature Pinscher Puppy
It feels as though I have sing all the songs
It feels as though I have  correct all my wrongs
It feels as though I have read all the books
It feels as though I have something...

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Categories: death of a friend, america, anti bullying, betrayal, community, death of
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things