Long Memorialize Poems

Poem revised Memorial Day May 30th, 2022 at 1500 hours

Flagrante delict adulterous sordid behavior 
automatically linkedin with Lothario;
an unscrupulous seducer of women, 
based upon a character 
in The Impertinent Curious Man, 
a story within a...

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silently wailing analogy to Moby Dick 
regarding how yesterdays 
prurient laced introductions 
to rhyme in retrospect embarrassingly blows.

Herewith to enliven anecdote ever further,
I inject humorous tidbit
just gimme moment to unload and reach
into psychological metaphorical knapsack
particularly...

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The revered Reverend Martin Luther King Junior

Born January fifteenth nineteen twenty nine
if still alive seven years shy 
attaining age of centenarian
father of civil rights movement,
the revered Martin Luther King Junior 
honored as benevolent demigod figure
to...

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One Father, Two Sons, and the History that Divides them!

This Poem was Inspired by Watching the News, and Seeing the Constant Fighting both Verbally and Physically of Both the Israeli and the Palestinian or Muslim...

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I never fought in Vietnam…my parents never had to worry…to fear…to morn…for the simple reason my draft number was connected to the day that I was born.

I sat watching draft numbers being picked…wondering what I...

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Hail "Ha," Well Met!

“Ha’s” a friend who I cherished and felt cherished by
More than sister or brother, our parents were sky
Overhead, sun, moon, stars that still glow in their pride
That two mates (born of stardust)...

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LASHES TO ASHES IN SLOW MOTION

Might I please present myself as a prologue to death
Because unless I am terribly wrong…….
I can’t have too terribly long
And I’ve been lazy too long
But I don’t have too long...

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Five score minus eight years ago
January eighteenth two thousand twenty one
father of civil rights movement
the revered Martin Luther King Junior honored
as benevolent demigod figure
to the oppressed African American population

without whose bold risks
and subsequent brutal assassination...

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Oh Babylon the Great , the Dragon Queen
false religion rides the highway of mankinds being
clothed without visions robes of splendor
conceals the violations of Truth you render 
 
The crown you have gained through war and...

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THE HOLY WEEK 

I reminisce, I miss……
This week is Holy Week and I cannot help;
but to reminisce how we observed the
Holy Week, when I was growing up, that I miss.

Today is Good Friday and I...

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For those we lost
Nuzlocking Pokémon Red
This is a poem 
To memorialize our dead

Rainbow

A level 4 Metapod
Caught with a single pokéball
Would grow to become
One of the best pokémon of all

Rainbow, the Butterfree
Evolved before our eyes
A valued...

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As we traverse in happiness of euphoric thoughts
Exuberance of sunrise permeates our avid hearts
Holding hands of leisure on hushed idyllic grounds,

Where pink lotus-blooms lift-up in pristine pond
Floating stilled moments in beauty of white swans,
Embracing day’s...

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From the Mayflower, they fought the high seas of the Atlantic.
They were not dressed in uniform, but they were gallant warriors.

From the North Eastern shores of the Atlantic to the Gulf of Mexico,
"No taxation without...

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Wow! welcoming the dawn the series of events yet linger on I fight for the calls and fight for your calls because by the laws we are to be free and freed I protect the...

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(at risk of life and limb) against scourge of
racial prejudice courtesy
of sharecropper grandparents
whose objection to racial segregation
based on an affront to the will of God,
whereby the young whip smart precocious lad,

(whose impact we now memorialize)
showed...

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Oh my dearest love, how longingly I recall
Amorous wink of joy, teasing zealous eyes
When you held my hand on journey of life
And never let go despite the arduous climb.

Happily you greeted what justly we toiled...

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DAUGHTER of JULY


Impalpable wealth - in family
My children, are my messiah
The true road to immortality
Once dead - we disintegrate in to dust
Passing on this planet - to the ken we entrust
They learn our behavior, absorb...

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S omewhere in the recent past came a show which brought the future,
    T hough it was a show that would use the future to show us the past.
   ...

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Place your hand upon my chest,
listen to my beating heart,
it softly beats for you.

Curl your finger in mine,
let me kiss each one, and then your lips.

As you whisper sweetly in my ear, 
my being wraps...

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Memorial Day 2 
“All gave some, Some gave all”
Written: by Tom Wright
2016

Today, we memorialize our soldier’s who lie at rest,
Many left families, perhaps some, with wife and child.
Facing life’s challenges they gave country their best,
And...

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Gray stones
Marking graves
Roses of white, pink and purple
Clinging to names, faded
Shadowed by oak and elm
Branches stirred
By crisp, cool winds

Names, only names
Left here to memorialize lives
Gone, spirits
Chill bumps rising
Along arms gripping
Lost hopes, the grief
Lonely with dread,...

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Commit my ashes to the howling wind.
Let the voice of silence speak my eulogy.
Leave no memento: no grave nor stone
To memorialize this mortal, earthly form.
          ...

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It seems to be snowing but it’s aphids.
They look like cotton or dandelion fluff.
You wouldn’t want them on your lashes.
They cling to grass, screens & other stuff.

You wouldn’t think aphids are alive, ‘til
you take a...

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Plucked like strings, a melancholic melody.
Hades and Persephone dance till eternity.
Buzz in the morning like a flying bumblebee
Teardrops in mourning, when the night is silent, chilly.

The tempo is going quicker as the years pass by
“We...

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To some it's just another paid holiday
with picnics, parades and parties,
emphasizing entertainment and food.

For some it's a day to remember
a life lost on the field of battle,
one who won't be coming home.

Others will visit graves
and...

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