Funeral Old Poems

There's a hospice for sick children, in the woods by where I live
and many times I wonder, just what I wouldn't give
to hear those small...

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Nearly fifty years ago 
His life came to its end
And I lost a much loved 
And respected old friend.

Born cruelly disabled,
Paralysed by surgical knife,
A calculated...

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The yellow rose is filled with sunshine and joy,  
she says welcome back or good luck.  


The red rose tells a story of...

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She was a woman who had a little hair on her chin.
She was older, robust, called simply Old Finn.
It did not make sense that they...

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Doris's cause of death will probably be:
Dementia, at age 100
~ Character Cause of Death Profile ~

Death
Probable age of death	100
Probably cause of death	Dementia
Other likely causes	Cerebrovascular Disease

Chronic...

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The minister paused, wondering what he could say.
She had been a mean old woman, an angry parishioner.
She was opinionated, he said. 
Bossy! Someone yelled.
And she...

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I just finished flipping the calendar to March
I keep a paper one hanging on my kitchen wall 
despite everything being digital 
I’m old school some...

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For my very special birthday,                                        ...

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If you can outfox the broom you may stay
I thought this was a weird sentiment to convey
A most unusual phrase from my cousin Old May
Then...

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They ask me for no advice.
I have out aged them by fifty years.
I am not insulted
Remembering my own aversion to old people


It is not their...

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Odd objects frolic within
Strange dominions for
It's all Hallow's Eve.
The night of souls;
looking for lost lives...
While children play merrily
In the chilly tinged air,
Of winters coming Dead.
It...

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We dream of reason 
A dry season
a setting of the western sun
A dark wraith 
a bold hold of hands-on high
A reason for the gun
A black...

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In my magical garden,                     ...

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Medieval Poems IV



IN LIBRARIOS
by Thomas Campion
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Booksellers laud authors for novel editions
as pimps praise their whores for exotic positions.



Brut (circa 1100...

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Sixty some odd years ago, when I was just a kid, our home was on the very edge of town.
The man that lived next door...

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