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Obits Poems - Poems about Obits

Premium Member Memorial Day 2025
... Memorial Day 2025 Soon Memorial day will be upon us once more, And unhappy memories of the past will be excavated again. My younger Brother was a highly decorated soldier rising to th......

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Categories: obits, memorial day, soldier, war,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Just Going Through a Phase
... I pay no attention to sports I turn off the weather report Pretty girls don’t attract me No more do mosquitoes attack me I read the obits and emit a ......

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Categories: obits, age, change, moving on,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member cycle of folly
...Repeat of the four-year refrain Pits demented versus insane We who are pundits Say please call it quits And would toast their obits with champagne......

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Categories: obits, america, introspection, political,
Form: Limerick
Mein Kampf Analogous To One Long Run On Unparsed Sentence Fragment
...Mein kampf analogous to one long run on unparsed sentence fragment Heavily punctuated - hyphen to embellish poetically with bracing circumspection, I markedly exclaim (parenthetically) cumulat......

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Categories: obits, absence, adventure, analogy, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Where Did the Time Go
...And suddenly, 50 was here, all the music got louder, all the drivers for younger. My hair was on a farewell tour, visiting the sink and the shower more than my head. The kids got older, some d......

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Categories: obits, age, america,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Frank's Obit
...Reading obits Frank had quite a surprise There he learned of his untimely demise 'Twas beyond his belief But he read with relief 'Twas another Frank with a n......

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Categories: obits, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Ode To An Orphan Outcast
...A tiny runt who cannot run, mom kicked me out because I limp. The big dogs call me dumb, a gimp, off-beat orphan, claimed by no one. A Mowgli bumming all around, Where is that warmer welcome m......

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Categories: obits, 11th grade, cat, dog,
Form: Ode
Didnt I Used To Know You
...Cigarettes and alcohol had washed her youth away. The fresh faced girl, with the wayward curl, that I knew from 'yesterday' had now been replaced, by something hard faced, playing the oldest......

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Categories: obits, allegory,
Form: Rhyme
Grandpas
...This is what they used to do, Grandpa's made their own rules, Sit on verandah on sunny morn, Read the sport, paper at dawn, Then to read the obituaries, Ensure still alive, you see, Finally, th......

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Categories: obits, appreciation, family, grandfather, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Aging
...Our aging- how we reckon it depends on where we are in life that given time. The preteen celebrates to reach thirteen- and then at twenty-one- cheers with a beer! The border crossed at thirty i......

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Categories: obits, life,
Form: Blank verse
Another Name
...Another name is added to the ongoing list authors, actors, visionaries, advocates of change galore now, passed on to the obits of evermore. Too many from my youth and younger ways found the ca......

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Categories: obits, america,
Form: Rhyme
Banana Republic Appeal
... Peel back the onion tear squeals coming from a televised live politico lynch rally See the sound byte rubber duckie teflon touting his favorite effigy combustible hits Penguin stru......

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Categories: obits, imagery, perspective, political, word
Form: Narrative
On Chance, Fate, Probability, and the Fear of Death
...It's always struck me as amazing how folks will buy more lottery tickets as the odds increase, so long as the prize money increases. The recent billion dollar lottery sent the masses into a frenzy--a......

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Categories: obits, animal, appreciation, atheist, death,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Heaven Described
...DESCRIBE HEAVEN To describe heaven… let me see, from ideas in my head? From scriptures that have been twisted, or verses…that I’ve read? Heard, “Truth is stranger than fict......

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Categories: obits, faith, god, paradise,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mental Notes
...The alarm blasts me awake From a fitful night’s sleep, Another day of bills to pay And promises to keep. Dropping Patanol in my eyes As I attempt to slowly rise, Feeling disparate deja vus A......

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Categories: obits, hope, life, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme

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