Short Interment Poems

cremation...ashes
  in an urn...interment, at
    least Mom won't get burned...

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Bury what you can with words
  —and remember the rest

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)...

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Prate is to
poetry
as death is to
life

Dilletante 
graveyards
lie marking
the site

Where words
never weighted
whose wings
couldn’t fly

Unmarked
without headstones
 condemned here
— to die

(Dreamsleep: April, 2025)
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Elegy DEADED SOULS TALK N-WALK

Interment unholy uncovered grounds;
Awesomely truest self instantly found;

The dead bones rise up also them so walk

Ever-presents of open-armed God Crowned;
Humanity and angels sing souls sound;

Spirit of the living dead souls be talk;
Hallelujahs

1/10/24
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2024©
Elegy 
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Oh Sammy! my eyes long to see you, my dearest friend.
In a sudden your life came to an end 
by the damn gun of a man
who mistook you for another one.
Your interment I didn't even saw.
Ah! this pain is still raw.
It gnaws my soul like acid
'cause these emotions aren't meant to be placid
being the product of a sorrowful love
initiated when your soul flew away like a dove....

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little ungroomed  golf
where Kentucky blue grass folds 
because of the tee

the surface of ground
all covered in green level
emerald surface

shines the interment
grass is moist and shallow dew
little ungroomed golf

the white drop pearl ball
flies through the air then falls down
hole in one, hooray


5/11/19
written words by James Edward Lee Sr....

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~
A yoke of love
my heart is close to you;
it beats;
my touch is close to you;
shadows touching through;
your visions close now;
I feel your breathe on me;
~
you shadow interment;
coursing around me beautiful breeze;
now that I'm excited;
it is you whom only you invited;
come closer to me;
now that I'm excited
a yoke of love;
~

8/9/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2021©...

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Think of the clock chiming
its your homecoming 
At home she's a tourist
filling the disco floor with virtue
her bourgeois extreme thrives,
transport yourself a new personality
brandish your interment interest
show your mental process
2 steps forward
6 back
At home she feels timid
there's no gang sweetheart
just the statutes of the once great
awaiting toppling
in dew clad desperate February









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Elephants don't plan funerals
though I seriously wish they would
then dogs may weep in their quieter moments
at some elephants death you know 
most black cats watch unaffected
necessarily by nature vicious
believing elephants might be exotic 
mountains in sad imaginary spaces
But it's the elephants I need to mention
a metaphor for humanity's blindness
we'd all attend their interment
out of civic duty and politeness....

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He started A Sharp Enterprise
And it was A Thing of Surprise:
Big Shops you walked up to their shelves
To survey the items yourselves;
Many a sure lasting garment
That should permit no argument,
Which one could wear till Interment 
And still not be starved compliment …

A lot of Touching Friendliness
Because of his stamped Godliness:
A Policy of Dialogue 
And rejection of Monologue;
He’s floating an Enterprise, 
Where one might negotiate price....

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