Requiescat Poems - Poems about Requiescat

...Many years ago I've received a gift 'Tis a gift that beats any kind of tip It helped me in my lowest to give myself a lift 'Tis something that no one else can strip It can topple all the wealth......Read the rest...

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

...Final Lullaby by Michael R. Burch for my mother, Christine Ena Burch Sleep peacefully—for now your suffering’s over. Sleep peacefully—immune to all distress, like pebbles unaware of raging......Read the rest...

...Juvenilia: Early Poems IV I wrote this around age 17. Bible Libel by Michael R. Burch If God is good half the Bible is libel. I read the Bible from cover to cover at age eleven, ten......Read the rest...

...Juvenilia: Early Poems by Michael R. Burch Smoke by Michael R. Burch The hazy, smoke-filled skies of summer I remember well; farewell was on my mind, and the thoughts that I can't tell r......Read the rest...

...Elegy for a little girl, lost by Michael R. Burch . . . qui laetificat juventutem meam . . . She was the joy of my youth, and now she is gone. . . . requiescat in pace . . ....Read the rest...

...Instruction by Michael R. Burch Toss this poem aside to the filigreed and the wild tide of sunset. Strike my name, and still it is all the same. The onset of night is in the despairing ......Read the rest...

...Salat Days by Michael R. Burch (dedicated to my grandfather, Paul Ray Burch Sr.) I remember how my grandfather used to pick poke salat ... though first, usually, he’d stretch back in the fro......Read the rest...

...Poems of Recanted Bachelorhood bachelorhoodwinked by Michael R. Burch u are charming & disarming, but mostly ALARMING since my resolve dissolved! * Disconcerted by Michael R. Burc......Read the rest...

...Elegy for a little girl, lost by Michael R. Burch . . . qui laetificat juventutem meam . . . She was the joy of my youth, and now she is gone. . . . requiescat in pace . . ....Read the rest...

...Athenian Epitaphs Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea. —Michael R. Burch, after Plato Does my soul abide in heaven, or hell? Only th......Read the rest...

... Requiescat for Joe D Written: by Tom Wright 4/21/2018 Though he lies reposed somewhere in a Texas field, The anxiety, and hurt he tendered, can’t be concealed. He made no effort to ......Read the rest...

...Death Comes All arguments and denials were fruitless; The deceased fell prey to the Master Thief. The “One” whose icy-cold touch is . . . Just Too Cold to Resist! . . . They Say! No worrie......Read the rest...

...Requiescat In Pacem when I leave this world look not for me under the dried ground but look up and see me beneath the skies when I pass from this realm weep not for my absence from your crow......Read the rest...

...Each life has its own story to tell Like when the day faints, the stars shine Or when the sun rests in bed and sunset conquers for a while Or when the day is gloomy, the heaven cries And when the......Read the rest...