Best Last Rites Poems

a haiku string


a bad man
he could never be ...
circumstance

blessed virgin 

wrong place
at the wrong time ...
justice prevailes

sweet mother of Christ     ...

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a haiku string


a bad man
he could never be ...
circumstance

blessed virgin 

wrong place
at the wrong time ...
justice prevailes

sweet mother of Christ     ...

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Stranded, sorrows billow suffering sails,
Surf snaps at broken hull's plea; 'swallow me'!
Lost love, life black-white, living color pales,
Tears sew sad tapestry on stirred sea.

Surf snaps...

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Tangled tubes connected to a body
laying still, breathing shallow, not awake
Beneath closed eyelids, rapid re-enactments
of so many unfinished things flashing by in meteor shower dreams
Unsaid...

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My wife always hated holiday feasts
It seemed every year her hatred increased
   This year she stuffed the turkey
   With hard sticks...

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angry clouds crying
over freshly-prepared grave
soldier is home now


written July 8, 2021...

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Sun, my ever coming, now my ever going friend!
Mourn not, angelic mate, though this is the end
For as I watch how parts of you are...

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When you have
an hour to live

what matters then 
is Christ in a pyx

in the vest pocket
of an old priest

called at midnight
by a nurse

who drives miles
through...

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Frozen body in
         in the icy river
A young woman 
       ...

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The sideburns of the Maples
Turned another color in early October

I look in my Roman bathroom mirror
Person reflected is a stranger to me

The green children
No more...

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>center>LAST RITES (MIXED)

I’ve been having thoughts, a bit macabre,
About my funeral day.
I’m not getting any younger,
So it might not be far away.

How many folk will...

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The door had been 
opened before you passed
    through it
Light in the window 
     heralds a new day
One...

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