Spring Memorial Poems

Heal sadness with gladness
Play jazz, smile that courteous smile
Ease illness with illness
Pour some wine, stop for a while
Before the journey begins
Scroll down your inner book
Find...

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In the realm of love, where hearts reside,
Freedom dances with passionate stride.
Unbound, the souls embrace the wild air,
Their love, a melody beyond compare.

Like birds in...

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Connie, in Hawaii, never gave up the fight.
Providence like the inevitability of the seasons
Took her to reside in the glory she had earned
Just as the...

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I couldn’t so delightful an autumn poem write
As dear Connie Marcum-Wong, so admired,
For colorful leaves falling in gentle breezes
Have not the muse our dear Connie...

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I remember nights on the south side porch 
After a full dinner & nothing on TV
We gather to sit talk and listen to cicadas cry
High
Into...

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early morning
as day blinked its eyes
I rowed a little dory out - smooth rivulets
behind me in the mirror surface.
I stopped in the middle
wrapping the misty...

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Sing Broken Beyond Mankind


because I speak


                IN   

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Suburban waste stretches beyond and far away
Languishes under the hot hazy sun
Seasons reap
Memories run
Remembering things better left unseen
Memories reel in the theater on the mind
Things...

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Born of the blood of heroes... shed,
They are watching devoted near the graves,
Dressing up the altar of those who now are dead,
Dancing free in the...

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He dreamt of car races and our sunny California beaches.
Of tanned women playing volleyball. Yes, all were within his vibrant reach.
Porsche-mania, though was his all.
Some talk...

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There is a little box in my heart
Where all my memories are stored
Because of the memories which’ve fought to stay in 
The box is a...

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Memorial service ~10:00 A.M. October 21st, 2020...
at Cherry Hill, New Jersey Unitarian Fellowship

Boyce Brandon Harris cremains
(approximately one fourth entire contents)
offered, interred, and eulogized
within ‘Tristan’s Pollinator...

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On these occasions, 
I realise the feelings 
As spontaneous as a surprise,
Time went by at a lightening speed,
And it feels like a decade since your...

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Sunshine rose earlier today, season of warmer weather
Rain and sun tempo touching soil and earth,
Vernal equinox weeks ago bring time of growth and renewal
Spring alive...

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Oft in My Thought
by Charles D'Orleans
translation by Michael R. Burch

So often in my busy mind I sought,
Around the advent of the fledgling year,
For something pretty...

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