Lou Reed - d. October 27th 2013

You saw at once

the blackest heart,

the whitest light.

You made us forget ourselves,

and we might wait forever 

for another man like you.

Read about Lou Reed here

Noel Harrison - d. October 20th 2013

That quiet voice, 
barely a voice at all,
and the fragment 
of your song;
at your passing
I still wonder -
to whom did they belong?

Read about Noel Harrison here 

M. Scott Carpenter - d. October 10th 2013

Telemetry reports show 
the blip that marked 

the transit of your capsule

has vanished from 

the sweep of our radar.

Read about Scott Carpenter here

Philip Chevron - d. October 8th 2013

There are thousands

on the water tonight

straining to hear

your final shanty

finding the sea

benign, becalmed.

Read about Philip Chevron here

Ray Dolby - d. September 12th 2013

In all of your life
you may never have played
a note, spoke a line.
All we know for sure
is that when you went,
you went quietly.

Read about Ray Dolby here

Tom Clancy - d. October 1st 2013

You have 
a new mission;
this time,
neither game 
nor manoeuvre.
Codename:
Afterlife.

Read about Tom Clancy here

David Jacobs - d. September 2nd 2013

Away from lives
of feedback and excess,
needle time, and bouts
of juke box fury, 
you remained a gentleman 
in an ungentle world.

Read about David Jacobs here 

David Frost - d. August 31st 2013

This was the man that was;
son of Swift & Pope,
ten generations removed.

From the cooling armchair

a voice -

Hello, good evening. Goodbye.

Read about David Frost here

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.

Read about Seamus Heaney here 

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.

Read about Mike Winters here

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.

Read about Elmore Leonard here

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.

Read more about Karen Black here 

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.

Read about Ray Harryhausen here