Seamus Heaney - d. August 30th 2013

All I knew of poetry 
was a door into the dark; 
you painted the bogs 
with words, lit fires
along the Liffey,
laced Nordic skies 
with wonder.

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Mike Winters - d. August 24th 2013

It must have hurt
to live at the edge

of the lens, yet, 

like all good feeds,

you knew,

the straighter the face
the louder the laughs.

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Elmore Leonard - d. August 20th 2013

We'll see your name everywhere;
ballistics reports, rap sheets,
held up in mugshots,
at the bottom of a shot glass,
drained to the dregs.

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Karen Black - d. August 8th 2013

We sing in praise

of an older woman;

occasionally up

on the marquee,

promising something

with those eyes

but never as easy

as titles suggested.

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Ray Harryhausen - d. May 7th 2013

We were marooned

from birth

on a desolate isle;

you sent Sinbad and Jason

to rescue us,

reimagined the world

in miniature,

to make it bigger.

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