Funny Memorial Poems

I saw epitaph
Engrave says, "He died of love".
Pinch my heart to laugh.
...

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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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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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There is an aura for the moment looking gloom 
Closing in on climatic resolution known as high noon 
Weather was dealt the color grey 
Heavy...

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My mother left me in January but she took her time
Dying a ridiculously horrible death which was a crime
Bone cancer is the way I do...

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Silent Wisdom

Did you see?
Did you look?
What do think?
They are so…   …   ?

Words heard directly, 
indirectly or by accident, 
but never by...

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Safe Havens 

The house is quiet. 
It is past the hour of dawn, 
and before the hour of noon. 
Yet, nothing is moving. 
The world...

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Lies to Our Self

I will be okay. 
You, she, we, me, us...
are just fine. 
All the time, 
we talk too much, 
and not enough. 

Lose...

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The Fine Lady

It is the first time I can remember, 
that I cared about china. 
Which pattern to pick, 
where to buy it, 
and why....

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A Christmas Card

Letters unsent, 
to people…
that wish they had received them. 
Maybe not write away, 
or all at once, 
but eventually. 

Harsh words spoken, 
throughout...

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Historical Outlaws

What, are you talking about? 
I am saying that we have a past. 
It is full of guns, and law, 
and law breakers. 
It...

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It’s funny what we remember about people…
the little things that stick inside our head…
today I am remembering
something she always said. 

You knew there was something...

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7 LITTLE FIELD MICE WHERE ARE THEY NOW



There were 7 little field mice;
Living in the field;
One mouse cried;
It’s cold outside;
So pack of six;
Nibbled at the...

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Hardest days that I came over
Are no more here to break me silver 
I was blind for some useless reason  
And It couldn't yet...

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Karl (Ray) Johnson, A Remarkable Man

The first time I met this remarkable man 
I was just seventeen years old,
and as I stood to be introduced...

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