Funeral Wedding Poems

Bells, bells, sound of bells fall now and then in my ears,
Their tone and timbre varying, sometimes singing, 
Sometimes jarring, sometimes rising to a sweet...

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The sun lights ablaze the insides of the church

And colours the aisle for a girl to waltz down

Clutching a carved dress sashaying over stone 

She reaches...

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bride in mourning for father
his last wish for her to not postpone her wedding day
wedding two days after funeral
delicate white moth arrived
led daughter down the...

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The bride walked down the aisle
at slow pace
With all the dignity and grace
like at funeral
I wanted her to turn
and run away.
She was all the girls...

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Can you be happy and sad
    simultaneously
  Many say you can today
    contemporaneously

  I say, on your...

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If I we're to be a wedding singer

The bride would obviously have
to be dead and wearing a black dress

And I am sure they would not...

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I'll be proposed by a most faithful man.
A man who'll always wait for me regardless of what I've done.
So from now, I'll prepare to become...

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Death
by Rabindranath Tagore
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
 
You who are the final fulfillment of life,
Death, my Death, come and whisper to me!
Day after day...

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Use to Be

My best friend... 
I would bring things to you. 
You needed or wanted. 
I would talk to you for hours, 
about whatever you...

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Loss

How can I express, 
something that can not be written down, 
unless you can grasp lightening, 
harness thunder, shush a whisper…
or ask your self if...

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Boxes of Hope

In the attic there is tensile. 
Bright and lovely, reflective pieces
of fluff to begin the journey. 

One, two, three,
a dozen cardboard containers. 
I...

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California Cold 

Rented cars…
every month the cost?
Bread and milk.
Why? 
To go get my kids. 
I had to. 
My own car was bad, 
unreliable, and dangerous....

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Grandma

My hands hesitate here… hovering over the keyboard…
Numb, hard to make do as I ask…
This should be happy, 
but I am…
crying.

I miss her. 

She smoked...

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Weddings used to be solemn.
Reverent.
No one spoke as they entered the church.
It was like a funeral only less flowers.
Super respectful air of silence.
Solemn occasion.
We took...

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standing at the altar
                     ...

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