Sorrow Memorial Poems

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

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Nagasaki, the city of night,
A place of peace and light,
Where beauty is so sublime,
That it touches every heart of mine.
The people of this city,
Are filled...

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A Kentucky woman born and raised,
Country through and through.
And though you left your roots behind,
Kentucky never let go of you.

A red-haired spit-fire in your younger...

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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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A day
That I’ll always remember
A very somber DAY
A very sad day
A day to ponder
A day to wonder
A day
Not like any other day
A very unusual day
A...

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Many soldiers have died for the USA.
We're paying tribute to those people today.
When those soldiers died, it brought about plenty of sorrow.
They fought and died...

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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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To the people you've left behind,
It's not been easy getting by
Because as we live we find
That you everywhere in our lives 

It's hard to see...

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The table is old and worn
nicks and scratches 
its red plastic tablecloth left over from a forgotten Christmas
its holiday pattern worn and forlorn
many a Thanksgiving...

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Adorn her grace 
By Michelle Morris
10/09/2022

Pull the curtains down
Close the stage
The play is done
The throne is changed

Another monarch
Leaves in peace
New heir today
A house of sadness...

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On this landmark an image stands...
  statue of a man.
Man of honor and talent,
  admiration of any man.
Born with great love for country
Died...

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Trembling, heart racing – it feels
So much like darkness, gray and dim
No light – no hope – no way to cope
This is the inkling of...

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We say goodbye to Connie with sorrow

For there won't be any love tomorrow

Her gifts to the community aglow 

Allowing the ranks to look up, and...

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This high, half-hidden, churchyard
Where coldness and rain find a home
And the nightfall is welcomed at twilight's end.

The lament of the deafened, defining the dusk,
And complecting...

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My cat is a rescue me,
The abandonment of loneliness
He had his Forever Home promise
My love and affection were his.

See, he turns out to be, 
Complete...

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