The Send Off
I met my father in the afterlife,
He looked stern, and his words cut like a knife
He said, "I have questions about my last days on earth
They were hard, so hard questions have their worth."
"When I lay in that hospital bed day after day,
And asked you to help me stand,
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Categories:
send off, death, father, father son,
Form: Lyric
Categories:
send off, farewell, spring, winter,
Form: Ninette
A Poetic Send-Off
I take my poems, in three month spurts,
And bind them in a book.
There’s just one copy, meant for me;
They rarely get a look.
A new one came today and it
Is number twenty-six,
A fine collection of my rhymes
If someone needs a fix.
Though all my writing’s on the web,
I like the solid heft
Of what will be my legacy
When
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Categories:
send off, me, poems,
Form: Rhyme
Send Off
Ugly are you with tearful eyes
The tears that never forded my cheeks
As did yesterday,too stubborn to stop
Perhaps the second it is that my eyes
Like a morning rose in a dewy garden
Got a burial under flowing salted water
As if, it makes me a lifeless brute
Because they hugged and pressed me hard
With tearful eyes they stared at
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Categories:
send off, bereavement, dedication,
Form: Elegy
Send Off
Ugly are you with tearful eyes
The tears that never forded my cheeks
As did yesterday,too stubborn to stop
Perhaps the second it is that my eyes
Like a morning rose in a dewy garden
Got a burial under flowing salted water
As if, it makes me a lifeless brute
Because they hugged and pressed me hard
With tearful eyes they stared at
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Categories:
send off, bereavement, dedication,
Form: Elegy
Send Off
Ugly are you with tearful eyes
The tears that never forded my cheeks
As did yesterday,too stubborn to stop
Perhaps the second it is that my eyes
Like a morning rose in a dewy garden
Got a burial under flowing salted water
As if, it makes me a lifeless brute
Because they hugged and pressed me hard
With tearful eyes they stared at
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Categories:
send off, bereavement, dedication,
Form: Elegy
The Sonnet Man's Send-Off
Prepare for a journey and prepare well,
Because this journey will last a long time.
When done, you will have a story to tell
With a straight tongue or maybe with a rhyme.
Remember to put your best foot forward,
So you can go as far as you can get,
As you proceed to navigate toward
The goals that were originally set.
When
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Categories:
send off, inspirationaljourney,
Form: Sonnet