Name Memorial Poems

When my mother discussed his story,
I was tragically shocked and enraged.
How could someone kill a teenager?
Assuming Yoshihiro was a trespasser?

An exchange student, a young teenager,
From...

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Coleen Moore 1898-1988.
An Angel Born In Michigan 
Her personality and good looks
Took her to fortune and fame
On stage and the silent silver screen
A longed for...

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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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I thought I saw the butterflies inked on your skin
Flying away 
Your vial of tears was spilled out on your journal page 
I couldn't see...

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	I
Ten laps around my town’s small park had 
become routine, and by habit I entered it
by way of the new war memorial.

Yet I never stopped...

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I am Misti--, didn't get it?
Misti(sweetness) is my name,
My grandmother gave me that
Honor, I'm too grateful.
I'm going to 8 months
This November soon,
My limbs are
Not properly...

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The once battlefields of Flanders
Were soon clothed with Poppy red
Perhaps a natural reflection of 
All the blood that had been shed.
The War Cemeteries laid out
In...

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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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His name was Paul Reubens but many people knew him as Pee-Wee.
He was a famous entertainer and he lost his life at the age of...

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Never gone is my mom, her words and her spirit will always live on, through her children she cherished and loved, now she guides us...

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we came from different worlds
cowboy boots and motorcycle
she carried pen and paper as did i
hers was to communicate with the world
mine was the labor in...

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silently wailing analogy to Moby Dick 
regarding how yesterdays 
prurient laced introductions 
to rhyme in retrospect embarrassingly blows.

Herewith to enliven anecdote ever further,
I inject humorous...

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For Memorial Day, 2023...


Rest now
The wind knows your name
It is heard in the song it sings to the stars
Now you can rest
And rest assured that...

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T -The movie-life with Ike Turner exposed 
I - I, like most humans - had to notice her
N -Notoriety for hits true to life; loved...

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I glance over
A rose in bloom
Or a gold Egyptian tomb
You look the same as you did last October

I make sure to visit you every day
The...

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