Farewell March Poems

Up up the fly away wig doth go revisited and revised March 10th, 2022...

Went off for hair raising shindig
donning noggin of villager in Nigg
(historic county...

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Washing my face at night - I drown in sorrow.
Patting a towel on my skin. Pressing firm.
Laughing causes wrinkles. Everyone knows that.
Yet humor is one...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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I didn’t know
That when I said “Goodbye”
It was really farewell.

Always the hero,
The people’s saviour.
You saved them,
But you can’t save me.

March home to me my child,
March...

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March winds blow and the memory remains
The day I had to leave and be on my way
Like a train into a black night
Without a conductor,...

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NO GLORY FOUND
 
No glory found and no guilt ever apportioned 
For those guiding young men to wars uncautioned,

The chosen too often of colour, unlearned or...

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March Madness

March shakes her icicled head
exhales Winter’s last gasp		
chills clouded moisture
sheds her stinging tears,
icy pellets of adieu.


©John G. Lawless
3/31/2017...

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The Ides of March
are no different than of October
just seven months older
and perhaps, a little bit colder.

And had Caesar only stayed away 
from the Curia...

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On Sunday March thirty two thousand fourteen, my sister
lost her grim battle to cancer, she was much younger than I;
nobody would believe that she fervently...

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A cemetery under the sea
A safehold for just you and me
Together we'll drown in the piano keys
While melodies fill our lungs as we sleep. 
A...

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A sole bagpiper
Waits to perform
For another soul
This must of been his last wish
Old comrades occupy 
A well trodden path
And bid him farewell
What they must think...

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