Long Obits Poems
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Mein Kampf Analogous To One Long Run On Unparsed Sentence Fragment
Mein kampf analogous to one long run on unparsed sentence fragment
Heavily punctuated - hyphen
to embellish poetically
with bracing circumspection,
I markedly exclaim (parenthetically)
cumulative elapsed LXIII obits
around the nearest star
dashed by at lightspeed,
and quoting James Thurber
storied fiction titled
My...
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Categories:
obits, absence, adventure, analogy, beautiful, care, celebration, creation,
Form:
Free verse
Heaven Described
DESCRIBE HEAVEN
To describe heaven… let me see,
from ideas in my head?
From scriptures that have been twisted,
or verses…that I’ve read?
Heard, “Truth is stranger than fiction,”
at this…might try my hand?
Was warned if I pursue this course,
in...
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Categories:
obits, faith, god, paradise,
Form:
Rhyme
On Chance, Fate, Probability, and the Fear of Death
It's always struck me as amazing how folks will buy more lottery tickets as the odds increase, so long as the prize money increases. The recent billion dollar lottery sent the masses into a frenzy--and...
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Categories:
obits, animal, appreciation, atheist, death, fate, god, grief,
Form:
Prose
Memorial Day 2025
Memorial Day 2025
Soon Memorial day will be upon us once more,
And unhappy memories of the past will be excavated again.
My younger Brother was a highly decorated soldier
rising to the rank of Master Sergeant in his...
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Categories:
obits, memorial day, soldier, war,
Form:
Narrative
Mental Notes
The alarm blasts me awake
From a fitful night’s sleep,
Another day of bills to pay
And promises to keep.
Dropping Patanol in my eyes
As I attempt to slowly rise,
Feeling disparate deja vus
As my morning coffee brews.
And...
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Categories:
obits, hope, life, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Banana Republic Appeal
Peel back the onion tear squeals
coming from a televised live politico lynch rally
See the sound byte rubber duckie
teflon touting
his favorite effigy combustible hits
Penguin strutting presidential seal
got a billy goat attitude, kicking rude gutter alley
A...
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Categories:
obits, imagery, perspective, political, word play,
Form:
Narrative
Life of a No-Name Extra
To glorify the leading star he obits the big named performer
with blank face in shabby clothing and for his part is so minute
it doesn’t matter whether he exists or not.
Although, he falls under the sword...
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Categories:
obits, death, life, patriotic, sad, work,
Form:
Free verse
Newspaper Man
NEWSPAPERMAN
Is the purpose of news to keep you informed
of current events that have already dawned?
Or is some mechanism set in that script
that triggers reactions to bite through your lip?
What is it typed in that story...
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Categories:
obits, irony,
Form:
Couplet
Getting Old?
As my hair takes on different hues,
There is gray, some white with hints of blue.
The person I see looking back at me,
When did this person start looking a little like me?
You reach a point when...
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Categories:
obits, imagination, life,
Form:
Verse
Growing Old
Growing old is not for sissies
And I know that for a fact
Didn’t really become convinced
Until now to be exact
Remembering my working years
And how I’d think to myself
I can do whatever I want
When this job's on...
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Categories:
obits, life, old, time, old, time, high school,
Form:
Quatrain
Aging
Our aging- how we reckon it depends
on where we are in life that given time.
The preteen celebrates to reach thirteen-
and then at twenty-one- cheers with a beer!
The border crossed at thirty is not dire;
most times...
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Categories:
obits, life,
Form:
Blank verse
Where Did the Time Go
And suddenly, 50 was here, all the music got
louder, all the drivers for younger. My hair
was on a farewell tour, visiting the sink and the
shower more than my head. The kids got...
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Categories:
obits, age, america,
Form:
Free verse
Didnt I Used To Know You
Cigarettes and alcohol
had washed her youth away.
The fresh faced girl, with the wayward curl,
that I knew from 'yesterday'
had now been replaced,
by something hard faced,
playing the oldest game in town.
Her painted on smile...
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Categories:
obits, allegory,
Form:
Rhyme
A Worthless Scoundrel Died Today
By Elton Camp
Always true, it surely ain’t
One who dies was a saint
Everyone loved him so
Friends want all to know
A smile always on his face
A fellow whom all embrace
He never did a single wrong
Or...
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Categories:
obits, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
What Is the Point Structured Prose Recited
WHAT IS THE POINT
What is the point?A comment so
often made,a question in some
bored moment.A reflection to pass
away some dull moments ‘til something
other provides a momentary distraction
to fill the mind with a temporal
train of thought.Soon...
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Categories:
obits, life, , cute,
Form:
Verse
Basic Black
Basic black, they chatter like
fiancees choosing flatware,
obits their compulsion,
scanning through the
fine print for fatalities today.
"Albert Johnson, such
a young one, taken by his
Maker, leaving children,
such a shame!" A...
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Categories:
obits, tribute,
Form:
Verse
3rd of November
3rd of November
Sleepy day
Ragweed and bitters
Time drips away
Spigot of rum
Rotten limes
In the sink
Missed you again
Newspaper flies
Obits and sports
Lay in the dirt
Dog barks next door
What the hell for?
Cigarettes and coke
Scattered like quail
Across the coffee table
TV is...
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Categories:
obits, lost love,
Form:
Free verse
Another Name
Another name is added to the ongoing list
authors, actors, visionaries, advocates of change galore
now, passed on to the obits of evermore.
Too many from my youth and younger ways
found the cause and time...
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Categories:
obits, america,
Form:
Rhyme
Old Newspapers
When I’m away The New York Times
Gets piled beside my door.
(For longer trips, I hang a bag
To keep them off the floor.)
I read them all when I get back,
In order that they came,
Enjoying news...
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Categories:
obits, words,
Form:
Rhyme
Basic Black
Basic black, they chatter like
fiancees choosing flatware,
obits their compulsion,
scanning through the
fine print for fatalities today.
"Albert Johnson, such
a young one, taken by his
Maker, leaving children,
such a shame!" A...
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Categories:
obits, writing,
Form:
Verse
Robbing the Dead
Reading the obits they saw his demise
Their interest peaked, a crime they devised
They ransacked his home, stole memories, treasures
Not giving a thought to their hurtful measures
While robbing the dead, and raping his heirs
What gain could...
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Categories:
obits, angst, family,
Form:
Couplet
Basic Black
Basic black, they chatter like
fiancees choosing flatware,
obits their compulsion,
scanning through the
fine print for fatalities today.
"Albert Johnson, such
a young one, taken by his
Maker, leaving children,
such a shame!" A...
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Categories:
obits, funeral,
Form:
Verse
Basic Black
Basic black, they chatter like
fiancees choosing flatware,
obits their compulsion,
scanning through the
fineprint for fatalities today.
"Albert Johnson, such
a young one, taken by his
Maker, leaving children,
such a shame!" A hunger for
the details drives these gannets
to their...
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Categories:
obits, funeral,
Form:
Verse
Ode To An Orphan Outcast
A tiny runt who cannot run,
mom kicked me out because I limp.
The big dogs call me dumb, a gimp,
off-beat orphan, claimed by no one.
A Mowgli bumming all around,
Where is that warmer welcome mat?
there sits Bagheera,...
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Categories:
obits, 11th grade, cat, dog, mom,
Form:
Ode