Ingvar Kamprad - d. January 27th 2018

We, whose homes
are filled with you,
gather to assemble 
your casket; black ash,
brushed steel handles,
several screws over
when the job is done.

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Mark E. Smith - d. January 24th 2018

Perpetual number one-uh
Kelly’s Eye-uh
Bormann and Lucifer-uh
hanging around-uh
waiting to parlez-vous 
with you-uh

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Ursula K. Le Guin - d. January 22nd 2018

You birthed many futures

as if children, taught them 

to be equally true, gave them 

the means to exist, the right,

then sent them singing

out into the star-minted night. 

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Hugh Masekela - d. January 23rd 2018

From stilled townships
Joshua commands
the bright-belled horns
of Heaven to blow 
once more for Bra Hugh, 
to bring him back home.

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Jimmy Armfield - d. January 22nd 2018

This is wisdom;

to see patterns beyond 

mere formations,
the inevitabilities
of genius and sweat,
to know the game belongs

to those who watch.

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Peter Wyngarde - d. January 15th 2018

I saw you lounging, 
serpentine, outside 
Department H, 
playing the part still; 
arch-rake in crimplene,
one eye on the girl,
one eye on the door.

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Dolores O’Riordan - d. January 15th 2018

O faithful departed,

please gather for the Lady

of the Seven Dolours, she 

of the twelve string voice

in a world too full of drums.

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Cyrille Regis - d. January 14th 2018

What is it that glitters

there in the goalmouth?

Smithereens of glass

that used to be a wall,

shattered by the flash 

of a bold young boot.

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Bella Emberg - d. January 12th 2018

Comedy has secret rules
of engagement; one states
Only the sweet of spirit
can play the grotesque.

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'Fast' Eddie Clarke - d. January 10th 2018

The band's asleep now,
killed by death, out of
Special Brew and speedballs,
no chance of a refill.

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John Young - d. January 5th 2018

No jet-jock or speedfreak

but routine rocketeer, 

zero-G teamster, taxi driver 

to the wrong side of the moon.

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France Gall - d. January 7th 2018

La chanson de nos vies
est une bougie,
notre dernier souffle 
comme la dernière goutte
de cire.

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Heinz Wolff - d. December 15th 2017

Beyond the oddball, the 

biomechanics of wisdom;

not to teach the what,

but the how, the why.

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Keith Chegwin - d. December 11th 2017

I'd like to swap something, 

anything, for a bouncy Scouser,

multi-coloured, smile fizzing 

in the very depths of his eyes.

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Johnny Hallyday - d. December 6th 2017

Quand le disque finale s’estompe

comment est-il possible d’être forte?

Nous vivons dans des temps de folie

Elvis est vivant mais Johnny est mort

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Christine Keeler - d. December 4th 2017

The real scandal; that
women without friends
still take on the sins 
of invertebrate men.

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David Cassidy - d. November 21st 2017

This morning

I woke to a day

like a bad dream;

death in the Family,

all those damp-eyed girls

too young to know love

who thought

they loved you.

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Rodney Bewes - d. November 21st 2017

The truth of you

was in a million men 

called Bob; suited,

suburban, provincial, 

souvenirs of the people 

we used to be.

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Jana Novotná - d. November 19th 2017

When life contrives 

to slam your sharpest serves 

back, and back, listen 

for the whisper 

at your ear; don't worry,

you'll win this one day.

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Keith Barron - d. November 15th 2017

I’m sure I saw you

on the box

only last night,

comfortably real

in a low-ratings show

where all the parts

were bit parts.

Read about Keith Barron here