Long Epitaphs Poems
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EpitaphsEpitaph 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:
epitaphs, bereavement, death, death of a friend, depression,
Form:
Epitaph
Athenian EpitaphsAthenian Epitaphs
Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be,
but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.
—Michael R. Burch, after Plato
Does my soul abide in heaven, or hell?
Only the sea gulls
in their...
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Categories:
epitaphs, death, eulogy, funeral, grave, loss, memorial day,
Form:
Epigram
Athenian Epitaphs IiAthenian 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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epitaphs, animal, best friend, death of a friend,
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Epitaph
Raid Versus WoeRaid versus woe
Black flag(s) show up
on social media platforms
when potential homicidal maniac(s)
communicate(s) intent to strike
with ambush and ready
read - able, eager, and willing
to embark upon murderous rampage.
Prospective killer armed to the teeth
usually a young bucking...
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Categories:
epitaphs, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 1st
Form:
Rhyme
The Story of HistoryThe Story of History
Beyond those beaten days’ depleted daylight
Beyond the bathos of a pandemic bondage
With the resurrected sashay’s charmed night
Down in the dumps at the pretentious proscenium
A ...
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Categories:
epitaphs, history,
Form:
Free verse
Robinson CrusoeI killed my friend,
I never wanted,
Do not see me cruel,
I did it for love.
We both ran naked
Under this influential shower.
No one uncoupled his lips
Against this faint madness,
We were indebted,
Either had to earn the prize.
It was...
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Categories:
epitaphs, bereavement, betrayal,
Form:
Imagism
Femme FataleFemme Fatale By A Wishing Well
(In The Wastelands Of War)
Warm as breath on placid skin,
Soft as gentle summer rains,
Loud as natures angry clouds
That gather in ambushed lanes,
To confer with the wounded boys
Whose...
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Categories:
epitaphs, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Enthused By Tough Grafther life had been a rollercoaster of moody upheaval
manic fervor from sheer in-exhaustible passion
...
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Categories:
epitaphs, analogy, courage, depression,
Form:
Free verse
Short StoryThe long and short of it is . . . forever
...
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Categories:
epitaphs, life, light, love,
Form:
Free verse
Never Land Part 4A sodden dreg with wooden leg is dancing for a dime,
to sacred psalms and other balms, all ticking with the time.
He’s 22, he’s almost through, he’s melted in his prime,
his bane is firm, the canker...
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Categories:
epitaphs, fantasy, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
ChildlessEpigrams/Epitaphs
Childless
by Michael R. Burch
How can she bear her grief?
Mightier than Atlas, she shoulders the weight
of one fallen star.
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Laughter’s Cry
by Michael R. Burch
Because life is a mystery, we laugh
and do not know the half.
Because death...
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epitaphs, child, death, eulogy, funeral, grave, mother, war,
Form:
Epigram
Angel of Arctic Moonrise
This poem is a special devotion for my mother, who has always been a healing sun for these wintry eyes. Mumma, you're my hope, my strength, my magic and my heartbeat. I'll always find my...
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Categories:
epitaphs, child, deep, devotion, love, metaphor, mother, mum,
Form:
Free verse
Ancient Greek Epigrams IiiAncient Greek and Roman Epigrams
That country wench bewitches your heart?
Hell, her most beguiling art’s
hiking her dress
to seduce you with her ankles' nakedness!
Sappho, fragment 57, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Stranger, rest your weary legs beneath...
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Categories:
epitaphs, bereavement, death of a friend, eulogy, funeral,
Form:
Epigram
The Devil Has No HornsIn Simple words
The devil has no horns
She wears smaug balm, Oh, Lord of the Rings
She sleeps in El Dorado Street, the Hotels of Svengali
She lives on Babbit lane, and reads Currer Bell
She loves Billy...
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Categories:
epitaphs, analogy, , western,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Plato Epigram TranslationsPLATO EPIGRAM TRANSLATIONS
These epitaphs and other epigrams have been ascribed to Plato...
Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be,
But go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.
—Michael R. Burch, after Plato
We left...
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Categories:
epitaphs, death, eulogy, funeral, memorial, memory, remember, tribute,
Form:
Epigram
It Was the Word After AllWrapped into a cocoon of impenetrable meaning and faith he followed the light
Doom and gloom had once shadowed his library of dreams and contentment
Scattered in his loony resemblance of a rational mind words rearranged reason
Analyses...
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Categories:
epitaphs, books,
Form:
Free verse
Violent Deadly Crime Spree Shoots Upward OneGun owners indiscriminately brandish
loaded firearms toward innocent victims,
and concomitantly excite
purported in accordance
with first amendment, relish
yet proliferation allowing
free ranging banshee dervish
sans weapons of mass destruction
(mainly innocent lives)
inures citizens to appear off fish
U.S., and self-important
becoming comfortably numb
at...
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Categories:
epitaphs, anger, crazy, death, evil, goodbye, grave, hate,
Form:
Rhyme
Ancient Greek Epigrams IiAncient Greek and Roman Epigrams
Stranger, rest your weary legs beneath the elms;
hear how coolly the breeze murmurs through their branches;
then take a bracing draught from the mountain-fed fountain;
for this is welcome shade from the burning...
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Categories:
epitaphs, bereavement, death, death of a friend, eulogy,
Form:
Epigram
Beneath the dome of an unforgiving sky, a spring with a leaden heart warms upBeneath the dome of an unforgiving sky, a spring with a leaden heart warms up,
Around it, whole worlds gather, with stiffened breaths and glassy stares,
Herds move, languidly inside a landscape torn from an apocalypse painting,
And...
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Categories:
epitaphs, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
That Afternoon At Highgate CemeteryThat afternoon at Highgate
When my life had paused awhile,
Old graves and headstones greeted
With their sad and forlorn smile.
Smirched epitaphs stared at me
My call they wanted to know,
Though vowed in pensive silence
With the...
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Categories:
epitaphs, death,
Form:
Elegy
The Graveyard of ShipsBeneath the fathom’s deep, in wreckage’s graveyard
Of the forgotten, here the broken bones of ships lie still,
Covered in a forest of seaweeds greenery.
Corrosion steel hauls ripped wide open, lay against ancient
Wooden beams from vessels voyages,...
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Categories:
epitaphs, hero, history, imagery, imagination, inspirational, international, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Ancient Greek Epigrams IAncient Greek and Roman Epigrams I
Wall, we're astonished that you haven't collapsed,
since you're holding up verses so prolapsed!
Ancient Roman graffiti, translation by Michael R. Burch
You begrudge men your virginity?
Why? To what purpose?
You will find no...
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Categories:
epitaphs, bereavement, death, eulogy, funeral, grave, loss, pain,
Form:
Epigram
Dark and the Light-Or-The Goose and the BrideDark and the Light- or- The Goose and the Bride
Act 1
Sunlit promenade juts majestically into the musical pond, spying a Hen Goose appearing to
be sitting on her nest at the end of the...
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Categories:
epitaphs, natural disasters
Form:
Narrative
Ban Assault Weapons In 2017 - Part3exclamation, which does nothing to stem dead locked high tide
proliferation of high-powered assault bazookas
manned by berserk cruel death eaters,
...
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Categories:
epitaphs, absence, dark, faith, hate, mental illness, murder,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Mermaid Epitaphs
As heartrose epitaphs
swathe earthly echoes
with swelled up w a v e s
of spiritual sirens,
sea-fairies collide
with honeysuckle footprints,
traced by mint-green manta rays
along aquatic vessel...
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Categories:
epitaphs, deep, destiny, emotions, imagination, meaningful, metaphor, strength,
Form:
Free verse