Short Posthumously Poems

cadaver bled
lifeline spread
posthumously read
endearing stead
perpetuity fed
vanity shed...

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Roy Rogers and Dale Evans
  Together they sang 'Happy Trails'

    Posthumously sentenced to P.C. Jail
    ~ Their song not available in braille...

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Diggety Duggety
Emiline Richardson
Studied the Etruscans
Classically

Votive bronze objects, all
Archaeological:
What I dug up on her
Posthumously
...

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As a female cinematographer
she sought to capture the world for review...
and she posthumously did with 'Halyna's Law'
where real guns are banned on set, it's true!

Wednesday, January 12, 2022
A Celebrity Epitaph Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Michelle Faulkner...

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What, no applause?

No one told them they were supposed to like your work.

Like Dickinson and Van Gogh

One day your talents will surface

Posthumously, perhaps

Treasures uncovered

Would fate have it any other way?



*Inspired by Brian’s blog and written for his 1 to 8-line poem contest...

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Perfectly poetic is what I propose to be
Predictable perceptions for all the world to see

Posthumously parodied a name on all your lips
Profanity prolific like sailors on the ships

Premeditated problems fixed with ire and humour
Predilected preferences are true and not a rumour

Prospective prosperity in spirit not in money
Perfection personified for rhymes that can be funny...

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Dutch post-impressionist Vincent Willem Van Gogh
Misunderstood genius as we all know
Did not go gently into his starry, silent night
Posthumously famous in his own right







07/07/2022

Image courtesy of National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, via canva.com

Line 3 influenced by "Do not go gentle into that good night", a poem in the form of a villanelle by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas....

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He’d spent nearly a decade on death row
Praying for appeals that were not bestowed
     Had a solid alibi
     One the courts would just not buy
A death sentence he’d have to undergo
 
DNA exam proved him no killer
But there’s a sad angle to this thriller
     Tests performed posthumously
     Executioners agree
Evidence came too late; what a chiller!
 


*For Miranda’s “Behind Bars Blues” contest...

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Best case scenario -
my fame walking into the future,
all my failed handiworks
recognized as avant garde – well before their time.
Honor and distinction heaped-up posthumously.
An unexceptional life
discovered to have been really ‘sui generis’
uncommonly so.
Applause echoing through the ages.

Most likely outcome –
a contrived eulogy,
slightly embarrassed onlookers
searching for right words.
Shrugs....

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Buoyant orange flames leap like a leopard stalking the sun. Posthumously, the mountain of smoke and ash collapsing on itself, selfishly stomping out joy, but for the Aurora Borealis, the joykill of skullduggery. Her light like song notes, tra-la-la-ing. Her beauty, unscrupulous, to the roaring volcanic beast.

northern lights
emeralds and pinks
disclosing
phantasm peaks
valleys of despair
...

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They wove a wordily world
Out of space and sherds of imagination
They wove meanings in mere metaphors
Like spinning spiders

The seer just slept
The poem prospers posthumously
And rake in income post-humorously
S/he died poor but partly NOPE

S/he gave life to you and me
S/he gave a piece of life to us
S/he gave a smile to us
S/he enlightened our dark hearts

Poets and poetesses never die,
They live on shadows and ghosts
In dusts of lively libraries, helly hells and heavenly heavens...

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