Long Obituary Poems
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Short Stuff: EpigramsEpigrams by Michael R. Burch
Negligibles
by Michael R. Burch
Show me your most intimate items of apparel:
begin with the hem of your quicksilver slip ...
Negotiables
by Michael R. Burch
Love should be more than the sum of its...
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Categories:
body, clothes, death, eulogy, introspection, love, obituary,
Form:
Epigram
Victorious flirtatious foreplayVictorious flirtatious foreplay
I awoke early - now my body will sleep,
though thoughts rise like the Azores
of snuggling next to such an adorable atomic
bombshell of a beauty - boars
into my mind with
sonata fantasy syrup passing
overdrive...
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Categories:
obituary, 12th grade, absence, adventure, age, angel, appreciation,
Form:
Rhyme
We Incarnate What We DigestEugenics is about monoculturing supremacist delusions
of and for AnthroCentric Perfection.
Eumemics is about multiculturing nutritional inclusions
of and for Matriarchal-Iconic EarthTribe's nature-spirit Yintegration.
If we wish to begin facilitating regenerative evolution
and discouraging degenerative terrorists and fundamentalists,
it helps...
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Categories:
obituary, culture, destiny, health, life, political, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Grandmas PortraitThere was a noble sadness hiding in her eyes.
She wears a smile, though elements of insecurities
Trembled in its corners...
Dignity and suffering, combating
for the control of her expression.
Hiding the battle scars of her life;
Intending to...
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Categories:
obituary, appreciation, eulogy, grandmother, inspiration,
Form:
Blank verse
Paul Valery Translation of the Graveyard By the SeaThis is my modern English translation of Paul Valéry's poem “Le cimetière marin” (“The graveyard by the sea”). Valéry was buried in the seaside cemetery evoked in his best-known poem. From the vantage of the...
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Categories:
death, french, grave, obituary, ocean, paris, sea,
Form:
Free verse
Requiem For A Motherless ChildThe weeds have sheathed the garden from its care as more nails than wood appear of a house lacking adjectives. A sun liberated from scathing entrapment amongst an overburdened forest whose boughs are heavily laden...
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Categories:
obituary, appreciation, black african american, celebration,
Form:
Free verse
Bad News, Morose NewsIt’s like being hit by a meteor
Where there’s no tomorrow
It is like doomsday, really
Where everything is ugly
And absolutely nothing is pretty
I just received the bad news
That my sister-in-law had died
Suddenly and extemporaneously
Without being sick tremendously
I...
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Categories:
obituary, dark, death, death of a friend, farewell,
Form:
Rhyme
Revolution's Peace PerspectivesGo ahead
Dare to invite him
to a climaxing fall-colored picnic
To read you his obituary for himself
and for you,
subject to future updating
round perspectives
free for changing
still-evolving revolutions
Then,
my retrospective therapeutic turn
to introspectively review again
past traumas
of EgoSpection
surrounded outside
by his contextual...
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Categories:
obituary, conflict, courage, earth, health, peace, power, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
An Ode For ZanteI had not long lost Shona (German Shepherd) and was not sure because of my age and disabilities if I should get another when my daughter spotted an advert .
I thought long and hard...
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Categories:
dog, missing you, obituary, mum,
Form:
Narrative
Would the Real Matthew Scott Harris Please Stand UpWould the real “Matthew Scott Harris” please stand up!
Yo...over here in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania
all the other ones (that follow below)...
them guys imposters I write – every ƒµ©**** one.
Curiosity and discretion
got the better part of me...
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Categories:
obituary, 12th grade, adventure, age, celebrity, character, cool,
Form:
Free verse
Ode To SelfWine tears
Flowing through the contours of cheeks
To reach these valleys residing in heart
Listen
Let the echo jump into this abyss
Until it reverberates like a suicidal cry
And breaks like a rope
Adamant on giving second chance to...
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Categories:
obituary, angst, anxiety, beauty, character, emo, emotions, gothic,
Form:
Ode
A Sunken HeartA couple of twisted shacks composed in Card Board City in Everywhere
County the nameless man or woman spits out another tooth with
...
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Categories:
obituary,
Form:
Free verse
Epitaph Eulogy By Linda Blair News Flash ObituaryEpitaph – Eulogy
BY
Linda Blair
This man, lying here in state – DEAD – lives.
His aged soul - but not his heart – he gives
to me – for me - this is such a shame,
so on him...
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Categories:
obituary, friendship, funeral,
Form:
Rhyme
AnathemaDumbfounded in the raw,
nerves in neon.
Sin-New and bones quartered by time's animation-
Death re-imagined by the law of Thelema and Agenda 21.
Moments of truth corner you in alleys and avenues in the night.
As they are ritually...
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Categories:
obituary, christian, dark, sin,
Form:
Rhyme
The BuffaloTHE BUFFALO
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS
THERE WAS A TIME I ROAMED THESE PLAINS
FAR BEYOND WHERE THE EYE CAN SEE
IF YOU LIVED ON THESE PLAINS
YOU HAD TO DEPEND AND FOLLOW ME
IF YOU WANTED QUALITY MEAT TO EAT
GRASS...
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Categories:
betrayal, culture, history, native american, obituary,
Form:
Rhyme
Facebookthe bright monitor
glares through inky darkness--
a clock ticks
My heart lurches painfully in my chest as my mind tries to process what I'm seeing. My mug of coffee sits on the coffee table -- how fitting...
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Categories:
obituary, life,
Form:
Haibun
LEGENDAs one grows old, when evening approaches, memories too lengthen like shadows. Now I remember more often my parents wondering how much sweat and toil they had shed to make their children comfortable, how much...
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Categories:
appreciation, inspirational love, obituary,
Form:
Free verse
BillyHis obituary was in the newspaper today. I had not thought of him in ages, yet he was always in a nest in my heart. Tears occupied my eyes as I did...
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Categories:
obituary, angst, crush,
Form:
Prose
2-24-15I bet I can make you feel helpless for a minute
Scenario 1: Imagine being lied to by the one person you were supposed to be able to trust the most
Imagine being kept in bed with...
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Categories:
obituary, corruption,
Form:
Free verse
HanHan(1) is the mang-bu-sok.(2)
Han is the tears,
the tears of a sorrowful woman
who waited and waited to the good news
that of the husband, who left her a long time ago,
turned into a rock on the hilltop.
Han...
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Categories:
obituary, anxiety, imagery, metaphor, miss you, sad, ,
Form:
Narrative
The News SellerCallum is an old-fashioned man on the verge of becoming history’s memory
Ancient even in that he holds only one job but that is for privation of another
Sort of a whiz kid at what he...
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Categories:
obituary, celebration,
Form:
Free verse
The Girl In the AirportShe was sitting alone crying in the empty airport bar
I watched her for an hour from the waiting area down the hall
Fifteen minutes before boarding
I’m not sure what moved me
I walked up to this woman
To...
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Categories:
obituary, sadme,
Form:
Rhyme
Manchester United 1958-Part 3 of 3Manchester United 1958-3 of 3
by Robert (Bob) Moore © 2015
I heard Jackie, crying, and when I turned around
I saw the body of Roger Byrne, lay across him on the ground
Jackies arm was bleeding bad, so...
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Categories:
death, football, obituary,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Lords of the Prairies - An Epitaph : a Tribute To the BisonDressed in my shaggy brown coat
I stand nearly six feet
at my shoulders
and weigh almost a ton
My brethren and I
once roamed the prairies
in herds of millions
grazing on its grass
which fed and nourished us
for tens of...
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Categories:
animal, death, eulogy, native american, obituary, tribute,
Form:
Personification
Obituary Oblations
Pictures of the dead,
pamphlets of the deceased
They’re passed out at every funeral,
where the broken hearted grieve ...
handed out like business cards
This strange belief
is a superstitious tradition
that truly mystifies me
There’s a lot of underground networking
going on:...
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Categories:
obituary, death, spiritual, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Dramatic Verse