Friendship Epitaph Poems

I
The hands Carmelo's genes shaped
Are somewhat lighter, her heart sadder
Carmelo Ricci left a world of pandemics
On January 17, 2022; heaven is happier

II
If a dad can...

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Our cat's keep us safe from not only rodents of all particular's , but also from the invisible 
strange and terrible things that cannot be...

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Ivie Twombley
1884-1913

Lottie Gordon and me were always together.
Joined at the hip, most folks would say;
You never met two ladies quite like us.
If you had known...

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Fighting famine starvation
By Stanley Russell Harris
The new mad author
& A Poetry Soup honourably mentioned poet

As a poet should I write?
Words in this world!
That is not...

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We have said farewell to David
How we wish he had been there
To see how much we loved the s*d
And how we did our hair
He would...

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Don’t Write It On Their Epitaph.

When I was but a little tyke,
A phrase I’d heard grown-ups relate.
“Don’t write it on their epitaph”,
“Don’t spend kind words...

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Epitaph – Eulogy
BY
Linda Blair

This man, lying here in state – DEAD – lives.
His aged soul - but not his heart – he gives
to me –...

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What's that in your hand?. Let me see.. He said.
It's a picture; that`s Chuck; he is my friend... I said.
You pick your friends kinda young,...

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I called him a Southern Jessie,
He called me a Northern Git.
We met at work years ago,
Our friendship an instant hit.

He went to the Lord on...

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OLD GIRLFRIEND
Remember me as one who's told
your life as you are growing old,
before your time to be
what only I can see,
alone and empty, bare and...

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I stopped to smell the roses I got stung by a bee

Weird as it might seem that made me so happy

For the bees they are...

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The scattered leaves of my mind, long lost thoughts oh so fine

Waking moments of cognizant fire, fleeting clouds of funeral pyre

Those broken blades of battles...

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She’s gone, there’s no Trace
                    ...

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If you were looking for me 
I had to go.
God was calling you see
and I couldn't say no.
Don't be sad 
it's a happy day.
Just be...

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There was violinist
He was old and grey
Loved by all but could not stay
He played the violin to the grave
And there the old violinist spends his...

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