Long Gravediggers Poems

In Ulzana's Raid,
the Native- and European-American concepts of property ownership
      and rights
are incompatible and irresolvable. McIntosh
had no illusions about that. He said hating Apaches for killing whites
is like hating the...

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 (Kafkaesque) This is a Franz Kafka style poem 

All ill manner of men dances at the bottom of my flowing skirt,
A circus of vultures aiming high, playing solitude in the dirt,
Trumpeting flames reading Classics,...

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The undertaker at Butcher's Funeral Parlor received the dreadful call.
Seems old Senator Cheatum keeled over and succumbed at the local mall!
His untimely demise spurred the undertaker to set a series of events in motion,
To ensure...

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Mr. Butcher, the undertaker, did a capital job of laying old Cheatum out,
Though he had to cram him in the casket since the senator was rather stout!
During the viewing, folks marveled at Mortician Butcher's cosmetic...

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I was wondering today if something is wrong with me
if I'm normal
healthy

it doesn't happen to me
It doesn't

I can't write anymore about shadows
cemeteries
crests
I can't write like I used to
about darkness
onions
also, I haven't written about my mother...

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                           I
All that is below is all that will...

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He wrapped his remains into his souls’ coffin at the cemetery

An oracle told him to be aware of gravediggers at the boneyard

Under cover of a midnight moon he sought solace and closure

Removed the wooden cross...

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People are separated from good food,
Babies delayed reunion with mother’s breasts;
The innocent begin to ape the crude,
Killer attacks a fresh retest of previous bomb tests.

Gravediggers maximize their income,
Mortuary services  twenty-four hours;
The solders keep working...

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Have seen the plunge of a dolphin 
And soar of a kite, 
Crows gulping every bit of rubbish in a habitual air. 

Have seen moths eating into the old books, 
Not that the knowledge they...

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At this moment in time
There are moms giving birth,
While gravediggers shovel
A plot in the earth.

At this moment a plane
Is preparing to soar,
While a soldier’s blown up
In a far-away war.

At this moment some people
Confess all their...

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The seeds that dig deep into the heart
rise up with all kinds of vengeance
speaking with a voice that's deceitful
casting upon one-lifetime sentence

When one seeks to get revenge
turns into a street that goes all one way
no...

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*Image of Ghana's Dancing Pallbearers by CGTN.

Dance of Deliverance

Portend looms gravediggers ere dusk
Orange descend skies slipping purple
Their courage ascend embolden husk
Almost finished all extend into a circle
Heart mind soul a godsend arabesque

2021 October 27
*2nd Place*
Something...

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The grave was freshly dug

Just awaiting the arrival of the body

Four Ghosts stood silent in wait

They had waited a long time

The waiting was over

The gravestone would remain nameless

There would be no mourners

No prayers goodbye

The body...

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Patiently they waited,
Watching each of us exert
Just a modicum of effort
As we shoveled up some dirt.

Every toss drew all attention
As the soil came raining down,
‘Til the coffin top was covered
With a blanketing of brown.

Then the...

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On the surface 
you’re all sweetness and light

But ... 
the truth is life isn't a game
and if I were to start digging
digging deeper than a gravediggers soiled shovel
I'd see through your libelous lies 
which spread...

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scotching sun I've seen
to concerts of birds, I've been
between nature's zones
seen seedlings slowly mature.
seen too moons and stars in lure
between nature's zones

season's weather beat
fog, dewdrops, showers, and heat
between nature's zones
I've seen, like guests, come and...

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