Michael Collins - d. April 28th 2021

Your name is circumlunar,

from light to dark to light, 

an orbit that can never decay.

Once the loneliest human

alive, this is your final flight

to a moon lit by eternal day.

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Les McKeown - d. April 20th 2021

I could lament you, but why begin it?

There were still girls to have fun with,

if only for the briefest minute,

but we ran out of gangs to run with.

Bye bye to the past: now you are in it.

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Jim Steinman - d. April 19th 2021

 ...and I swear he's deader 

than the death 

of the American dream.

Yes I swear he's deader

than the death

of the American dream.

Dream!

Dream!

Deader than the death!

Deader than the death!

Death!

Death!

Death Death Death Death Death

of the American 

Dree-eee-eeam!

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Peter Terson - d. April 8th 2021

I learned a trade from you;

how the dirt and melodrama

of the ugly game was nothing

to the poetry of terraces and kops.

And you really shook them up,

and we shall be, 

we shall all be moved.

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Helen McCrory - d. April 16th 2021

What materials: voice

like the slitting of lace,

eyes like quiet fireworks,

every glance speaking

of quiet feminine steel

and a gypsy’s curse.

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Shirley Williams - d. April 12th 2021

Whatever stripe you wear

in the chambers of possibility, 

you cannot simply be,

you must do; change course

when the path blurs, veers;

find new ways for your cause.