Category: Family

Best friend

Fallen from the table Devoured in an instant Opportune, she lives for here and now Like smile on an infant   Found amongst the grass Eaten – pure instinct The lips, the sense of smell inspect What to us is non-existent   She lives her life from down below We live ours from up above […]

My bird

The bird seemed to follow my roving eye As he walked beyond where I lie He seemed to know, with eye I spy – Sitting there that day. He never seemed to have a care No matter for how long I stared Or how controlling was my glare He was there, it seemed, to stay […]

The lifeline

Once the lifeline gave to me A chance to start again I couldn’t turn back away I couldn’t say just when   The world had come to greet me The earth had come to see Whatever it offered as reward Was what we’d keep for free   But how did we get that reward That […]

Oliver

Oliver strolled to the highest mountain To seek out a magical sight. It was a mountain greener than the greenest of pastures, It spoke of goodness and light. From the mountain-top Oliver saw the cliffs, Far to the west they stood. On top a four-leafed clover found By the wee man wearing a hood. A […]

Moral Absolution

I felt a pang of enmity In shoulder and in heart A pang that measures friend from foe Who, once loved, now forgot.   But enmity and absolution Couldn’t share the thoughts of one A lover with a dagger drawn Spells irony to some   To heal, to treat, perambulate Attend to task at hand […]

The hand I held

A touch that brings compassion A twinkle in the eye The arm, e’er so tender The touch that’s felt is mine. Stairs, to door, lead to course Friendly strangers wave Have I been living, anonymously? Companionship is saved. A crack when club meets ball Its seamless, silent, fate Hands on wheel, foot to floor Then […]

the world beyond the fatal shore

The world beyond the fatal shore Not like the world in days before Danger we could glean Danger knows not, of hill-top morn’ Or life of old-country, worn Hard yakka it had been But enough of hills, enough of grass You knew young love would never last Life offers so much more Past the dip, […]

But once

Tell me that the Earth is round I’ll convince you it is square Tell me there’s justice in the world I’ll tell you it’s unfair Tell me to sit down I’ll surely want to stand Tell me you prefer the hills I’ll run along the sand Tell me; turn toward the right I’ll move further […]

Remembrance

The cotton-fields triggered his sense of loss Remembrance shone through It meant so much to him It meant nothing unto you. The summer sky was bright, the moonlight warm Who’d imagine what’d gone before? Hell on Earth had been to visit Desperate times in days of yore. He knew before his family passed Sweet Jesus […]