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Death is too negative for me,
So I’ll be popping off
For a long cup of tea.
Do splash out
On two bags in the …

Weeping willows formed an honour guard
For the cricket ball writ with a noble name
A team of ten, which had once been eleven
Would …

The musical notes stood in lines
Discordant in their grief
Before regaining their composure
As black tears in embossed relief

The instruments played this salutation
To a musician of note …

I’ve always gone with the roll of the dice
But now my number’s up
And since I’m the one down below
There must be six up top

I always …

Seabirds dance to Neptune’s beat, and
Like moths around a flame
Welcome back the fishing fleet
Back safe from the catching game

In and out, to and fro
Rise and …

I am not gone, while you cry with me
I am not gone, while you smile with me
I am not gone, while you remember with me
I …

The sailor cast off the mortal coil
As the voyage of a lifetime was hatched
And the astral yacht blew off the Beaufort scale
At …

Synapses, lightening forks
Neural nets cast aglow
My being is no longer earthed
As across space I flow

Eternally charged with immortal life
I feel the pull of people past
My …

I want fireworks at my funeral
To brighten up your eyes
I want clowns at my funeral
To return all your smiles

I want dancing at my funeral
To help …

It’s my turn now to be planted
Put out to seed again
While the fruits of my earthly labours
Flourish in the sun and rain

It’s a wonderful day …