Snow Bereavement Poems

Goodbye, Odie

My little old cat is dying.
His steps are awkward, eyes unfocussed
and he cries when he can’t see me.
I’m not sure I want to be...

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Rumi Quote "Doubt is a precipice on the way to God. Blessed is he who is freed from its bonds."
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Roars of dark shadows covered through the dusty iron blocks, raining down in tunes on the souls of the districts. The spot of a thousand...

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Summer's hunter-green fields yielded to autumnal beige
and vermillion,
soon came the frosted air and cardinals singing in
snowy pine boughs.
Deer shyly emerged from woodlands edge for feed
families...

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When I met the tall and amiable Vietnam War veteran,
my shyness showed,
yet, my throat dried and tightened when he softly
spoke the words, "The war never...

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Canadian Ocean Gate


O beauteous land of mirth and Glee! 
O land of falls and seas and lakes!
Which shadows row in horrid nights
Which sorrow in Thee...

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Your ghost is in clouds -
hidden in a song,
and sometimes sits by the apple tree;
where you are, where you belong,
always here with me. 

Little white...

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These are poems for the victims of the Nashville Covenant School shootings.


Nashville Covenant Call to Love
by Michael R. Burch

Our hearts are broken today
for our children's...

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nascent 
     dawn appears
kaleidoscope 
 of 
color
  midnight 
    sighs 
      ...

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The ice-cold sun was hid
Behind a bank of clouds that came unbid,
Ugly freezing winds blew
Birds felt it all and flew
No place to rest, they knew.
The...

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I'm an ominous seashell stuck in the deep.
Blest realms of gold-plated hemophilic snow
Cerulean tears wet molten drops scary heap.
Seven waves fade and the moon sigh...

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One night I was thinking,
one freezing night.
I wonder where my life is going.

I have a walk under the city lights, under sleet or maybe snow.
I...

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He was the first of many of his kind,
grown long before his siblings came to be
And from the start it was his job to mind
all...

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Why did you have to leave
Just when snow was falling?
Couldn’t you have waited            ...

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Between the ground and the sky
a glittery orb floating in the sea of gems
It is a dream of gliding on an azure floor
Upper and lower...

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