Flower Memorial Poems

Never had I met you 
Still I know your name,
Because of the notoriety 
Because of the fame

Written in stone
Forever and a day,
Many gone too soon...

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Have you read Pavel Friedmann's "The Butterfly"?
I discovered it in a Children's poem book
he only rhymes with the words "high" and "goodbye"
its imagery gives the...

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Have I ever told you why you remind me of edelweiss? 
The tiny little white flower, with star-like petals that bloom in all directions?

Have you...

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I bought fake flowers because I hear they last forever.
Could care less what's said about this place where I won't live forever.
Losing her had a...

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Grand Hope Flower
CA Hospital over 
a century of healing
Construction din
all of downtown one 
enormous construction 
site with all its might 
peeling into daylight 

Executive traffic...

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Oh Compassion!
Sweet like a flower.
Compassion!
Warm like the sun.
Kind and caring.
Sweet and sharing.
Lovely and bold.
Compassion.
Peaceful and still.
Compassion.
Cozy like a blanket 
Soft like a feather.
Soft like a...

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The local girls are Asian, South Korean, Japanese,
Chinese, Vietnamese.
A few runaway Muslim chicks.
War is a man-shaped demon.

War is booze and guns, fistfights,
Humvees and frying, flying...

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Time of the year when poppies bloom
Turning the flowering meadow scarlet
Reminds of a famous poem of gloom,
Time of the year when poppies bloom
In Flanders Field...

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As we may tell
All shall be felt
Within ourselves
Angels of destiny
Flowers our journey
Through God alone
These flowers are grown
Brought forth from North
Our pleasant worth
Prayed among the clouds
Jesus...

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white lilies
line my front walk
soldiers
in rank and file
commemorating
the loss of
mothers
their children,
and dads
their children
to COVID,
sufferers in our
little community
of
Ashland, Kentucky.

written July 4, 2021...

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Four petals
Blood red
Saying goodbye
Honoring lost souls
Warriors killed 
Long before their time...

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field of red poppies
shrine-like aura of petals
salute the fallen













Composed: January 24, 2021...

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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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We were; yes we were!
Brewed for this day.
Innured a yoked thicket.
Offing but at the nose tip
Till we had a stomach full

Receiving more, yet, we keep.
The...

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