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Love’s Last Suit

{ Poem }

Love, forget me when I’m gone,When the tree is overthrown,Let its place be digg’d and sownO’er with grass ;—when that is grown,The very place shall be unknown,So court I oblivion.So I charge thee, by our love,Love, forget me when I’m gone. Love of him that lies in clayOnly maketh life forlorn—Clouding o’er the new-born dayWith […]

Cancer Villanelle - by Tracey S. Rosenberg

{ Poem }

Needles plunge. Consultants come and go.
Today, leukocytes are easy to locate;
tomorrow, next year, they may sink below.

Bereavement Counselling from Murdoch of Blackbyres - by Jim Carruth

{ Poem }

Listen, back in ‘74
I shot a crow with such force
its body cannoned into its partner,
dropped the pair from the sky.

Icarus poem - by Heather H. Yeung

{ Poem }

Twin postcards

Margaret’s Moon - by Jackie Kay

{ Poem }

After she died, I swear the sky
/ Had the most beautiful of all sunsets,
/ A blush of pink, then red, a glass…

In Memoriam 1971 - by Joan Ure

{ Poem }

Certain women. And some young boys.
/ Women with some uncertainties
/ but something they knew about
/ that made them need to say something.
/ Two of…

In Days of Darkness - by Stuart A. Paterson

{ Poem }

Two days before your death, you wrote / There is not much to report from here.

Reelig - by Ian A. Olson

{ Poem }

I do not know
/ Who sleeps here
/ Beneath this mound before me
/ Under the skies of Reelig
/ Below the Fraser pines
/
/ But a Laird…

As Time Draws Near - by Iain Crichton Smith

{ Poem }

As time draws near
/ the end of our days
/ and the plates fall
/
/ away from our knees,
/ let us not be…

Timor mortis conturbat me - by Diana Hendry

{ Poem }

Will it give me six months warning
/ Or come when least expected?
/ Will I trip over it one morning
/ And find…

Haiku - by Pauline Prior-Pitt

{ Poem }

obituaries
/
/ for people younger than you
/
/ in the daily news
/ …

That’s Life - by Alan Bold

{ Poem }

Far from the scent of the crocus
/ And the pavanne of Scottish daffodils
/ A loud crash was heard in Princes Street.
/ Safe from…

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