Long Obituaries Poems
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By How Many Badbyes Can You Measure the Length of Your Day by how many badbyes can you measure the length of your day
first comes...
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Categories:
obituaries, age, loneliness, memory,
Form:
Free verse
Letter To Taeljejohnuncomfortableness, and hesitation arose that you might reassess a possibility for friendship or.... whatever with me.
A disappointment set in place in the event that based on some facet of my being (inexplicable flaws within this...
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Categories:
obituaries, angel, beauty, devotion, friendship, history, introspection, life,
Form:
Narrative
Enthused By Tough Grafther life had been a rollercoaster of moody upheaval
manic fervor from sheer in-exhaustible passion
...
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Categories:
obituaries, analogy, courage, depression,
Form:
Free verse
Dead Crush
"Dead Crush"
Oh uplift me woman
if we were to have a
conversation would
bees fly out of your mouth
or just mewling, simpering
watered-down honey
not so pristine, just soft
and somewhat
ingratiatingly tainted
you ply uplifting
romantic notions
like an air...
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Categories:
obituaries, courage, freedom, women,
Form:
Free verse
Stan the Man--Stan Lee a DedicationStan the Man--Stan Lee a DEDICATION
He who that says that he is I am
I am Stan the man
Stanley Martin Lieber was born on December 28, 1922,
In Manhattan, New York City,
n the apartment of his Romanian-born...
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Categories:
obituaries, analogy, appreciation, books, community, dedication, farewell, imagination,
Form:
Free verse
HomocidesI Wake up in the morning hearing gunshots and people screaming I rush
towards my window and see another innocent victim lying on the ground
dead
I look to my right and see another family mourn over a...
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Categories:
obituaries, depression, sad, father, world, people, father, mother,
Form:
I do not know?
Hurrican Wilma In AftermathIt was a baren world
We fled without a feather of pride
After the storm was gone
Escaping the aftermath to hide
What in you was going on
I remember the fury of the night
And you coming, coming, coming
But never...
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Categories:
obituaries, anniversary, natural disasters, peoplestorm,
Form:
Free verse
Sunday MorningSunday Morning
I try not to wake him, though he stirs slightly
As I crawl out from the warmth of the covers.
I'm tempted to change my mind, and stay awhile longer,
But a glint of sunlight peeks through...
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Categories:
obituaries, child, children, family, morning, son,
Form:
Rhyme
Wanted To MeetEleanor Rigby?, Huh!, who the heck is she,
honestly though, never heard of her, or her of me.
Upon meeting her, maybe to think she's rather keen,
telling me a joke, I'd listen, whether dirty or clean.
I'd greet...
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Categories:
obituaries, character, inspiration,
Form:
Rhyme
Yowl Part One AI’ve seen the minds of my generation bested by their handheld mobile devices,
texting for a dopamine rush, tuning out the reality around them.
I’ve watched them, withdrawn from present company, looking for bars of microwave coverage,...
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Categories:
obituaries, computer-internet, parody,
Form:
Free verse
AmericaThe focus in the direction of possibilities and to enter into a bridge of congressional diplomat and to decipher the negative from the positive in all ways of motion and emotional dictation from the view...
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Categories:
obituaries, america, deep, universe,
Form:
Narrative
Poets You Set Life FreeLet’s take a ride, how about traveling, to outer space,
Just accept anything’s possible, it’s our cosmic chase,
Moving faster than light speed, in the blink of an eye,
Unleash your imagination, laws of physics, don’t apply,
Maybe...
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Categories:
obituaries, appreciation, education, internet, meaningful, poetry, strength, truth,
Form:
Quintain (English)
In Our Hearts: LegacyIn Our Hearts (Legacy)
When we lay you, gently,
in the most glorious mahogany box.
And you are borne high on shoulders of six pallbearers.
When we march, lazily, like a pack
of starving school children,
dressed in black robes...
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Categories:
obituaries, bereavement, death, funeral, humanity, life, memory, time,
Form:
Free verse
Tempor Insanhow many sustain their own sanity
pointing to the coherence of the words themselves?
see how they fit together, they say,
here I put a nice and long onomatopoeia...
there I built a beautiful alliteration...
and yet perhaps not, logic...
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Categories:
obituaries, analogy, philosophy, society,
Form:
Carpe Diem
Dude, You'Re Not a ChickYou buy into this PC-stuff,
it seems you always have,
but now I think that you have
gone just a little mad.
You demand I call you ‘Jane,’
when you were born a ‘Rick,’
I hate to say it, but I...
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Categories:
obituaries, gender, loss, mental illness, society, suicide, truth,
Form:
Rhyme
Barbarian DreamsI shut my soul up inside of my walls but,
it escaped; running rampant in my dreams.
People tried so hard to crush my inner child;
I wouldn’t let them.
They called it a, “Daycare” but, it was a,...
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Categories:
obituaries, abuse, betrayal, dark, emotions, me, poems, poetry,
Form:
Prose
Crumpling PaperCrumpling Paper
By J.R.Wren
Caw, Caw, the voice is rusty and the fry will always be true
The crows don’t know a suit, a camera, nor a comma splice
War Machine MSNBC has messy hair and forgot to tie...
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Categories:
obituaries, political,
Form:
Rhyme
My Given NameA newborn infant has no choice.
My folks with others had consulted.
And this is the girl name that resulted.
They christened me with name of Joyce.
You won’t find my name on today’s lists,
But for those ladies of...
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Categories:
obituaries, daughterme, friend, me,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
Cv'sCurriculum vita in a perfect suit for the over emphasized job,
overwritten obituaries by all means towards the career to the top.
Artificial titles painting in phrase the landscape of the desire,
everybody loves a piece of paper...
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Categories:
obituaries, 12th grade, confidence, confusion, corruption,
Form:
Ballade
The Game of SubtletiesWhen taken past experience to future consequence,
one has very little or even nothing as reference.
Experiences from the past and its present handicap,
the same same and its changed attribute gab.
That where the times as one speaks,
giving...
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Categories:
obituaries, 12th grade, confusion, courage, creation, inspirational, integrity,
Form:
Ballade
Soldiers' ObituariesThis morning's paper arrived and I settled down to peruse,
The latest in local, national and international news.
While I relaxed with a cup of steaming coffee near,
Some across the land heard door bells chime with dread...
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Categories:
obituaries, loss
Form:
Rhyme
Not WorthyThe New York Times won’t publish
All the wedding news it gets.
Unless you are “acceptable,”
They’ll send you their regrets.
With attributes like wealth or fame
Or Ivy League degrees,
The Times may run your story,
But there are no guarantees.
I’ve...
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Categories:
obituaries, death, introspection, on writing and words,
Form:
Rhyme
Memories of a Different TimeThe song came on my radio and it took me back to ten years ago
The second time I heard the song, I began to sing along
It sang about the cold sad day when the...
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Categories:
obituaries, music, nostalgiame, song, music, me, music, song,
Form:
Ballad
AgingAging
As I grow older from twig to tree
I realized age doesn't bother me
When I was young, time went by so slow
One thing about time you'll never outgrow
I've aged quite well, so it seems
My restful...
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Categories:
obituaries, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Soon It Will Be 2019Soon it will be 2019,
As Santa Claus glides in
On his reindeer chariot
Millions of souls rejoice
All around the world.
The year 2018, still holding
Onto the world, in its embrace,
Has sounded its bugle of retreat
Sober and...
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Categories:
obituaries, hope, new year, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse