Obits Poems

Memorial Day 2025

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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...

Just Going Through a Phase

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        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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Banana Republic Appeal

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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...

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...

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...

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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