Grief Memorial Poems

As Freshly Laundered Linens
Secured By Pins On a Back Yard Clothes Line
Airing Out In Daisy Aromatic Breeze
Set to Dry Under The Friendly Not too Hot...

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To break a man's life down
into digits, to numbers,
might seem strange to you;
distant, or heartless, or just odd.

But that was just our way;
we'd both been...

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22 years after, the day still lingers in our minds
The trauma of that day we can never leave behind
We remember those lives we lost that...

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In Hiroshima, a city of peace
A single bomb of nuclear release
The victims' screams, a haunting sound
A level of destruction so profound

A Japanese city once so...

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A Flock of Startled Birds

He had sat for an hour on a long, low, flat rock,
He had checked himself over from bald patch to sock.
His...

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How does it feel?
It's hard to tell
Sad when I pause
Taking moments to dwell

It's the pearl that is lost
It's the half-empty shell 
It's the un-told story
It's...

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he had a life
within the life of ours
an imprint on eternity
his cuddles come
from angels now
or he’ll bark at them
relentlessly


for Barley, 7th November 2013 - 13th...

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Here comes the dawn
of a thoughtful Mourn. 
Month of the desecrated demise
of a Monumental personage.

Unpleasant feels beclouds the air
I consume,
My structure reconciles itself
to the dreadful...

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I miss the days of mine
I miss the old me which used to shine
Like a star with unrelenting light
But now I love the darkness of...

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ice formed in craggy spirals 
upside down and billowed
on the outstretched arms
of the sleeping winter Willow
awaiting Spring’s warm charm

misted sunlight peered through in sheer 
shafts...

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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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by Maxwell "Max" Sebastian Burchett

One Memorial Day made me consider
The many tombs to unknown soldiers,
In memoriam to the lost 
From wars then and now,
Unnamed ghosts.

Is...

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Daisy morning, birds chirping,
Beautiful sunsets,dreamy night,
How fast the day spent by looking
At these beautiful sights.

Magical time and wonderful moments,
Take away the worries of the day,
Yet...

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I want to run from the grief,
from the crippling and the tears.
But that dread is a secret thief -
out to steal away the memories, the...

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There are people in life we always hold dear
But fortune dictates they will soon disappear
Their life force defines the person we are
And when they are...

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