Obits Poems - Poems about Obits

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...she took his heart in hands ... crimping the passionate edges with dainty, fuchsia-tipped digits and tore it cleanly - deliberately - in two with no more care than if it was the deed to a t......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

... 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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...When I’m away The New York Times Gets piled beside my door. (For longer trips, I hang a bag To keep them off the floor.) I read them all when I get back, In order that they came, Enjoying ne......Read the rest...