To Conner, With Love
I know you don’t want to hear it
But one day you WILL
look up and think,
“Dammit Mom”
And then notice the rose-gold
Of a sunset
Just like I’m
Always taken by surprise
At how your eyes
Can change from green
to dusty gold then blue
Depending on the hue
Of your plain olive
or blue H & M T-shirt
I know you
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Categories:
conner, boy, childhood, family, growing
Form: Lyric
Easter Around the Conner
its not to far
watch that star
way up above
its jesus who is love
coming down
to walk these ground
he is a loner
EASTER
AROUND THE CONNER
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Categories:
conner, adventure, freedom,
Form: Light Verse
Pretty La Conner
La Conner is such a pretty small town
That has grown and has changed for many years.
One of the first settlements in the state,
It is so much more than it first appears.
Many buildings from the earlier town
Have been recorded as historic places.
Residents point them out to visitors
With unconcealed pride upon their faces.
The town is surely an
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Categories:
conner, places,
Form: Quatrain
Two Beautiful Heavenly Smiles - In Dedication To Laci and Conner Peterson - 2003
Million watt love now shining from a night sky;
You lit this dim world so brightly so briefly.
The evil that took you now cowering in a concrete cell,
Its blank emotionless stare no longer fooling anyone.
He was unable to escape the light you left behind;
Now his darkness is trapped within your truth,
Greed and lust drowning now in
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Categories:
conner, dedication, eulogy, heaven, truth,
Form: Dramatic Verse
In Memory of Conner
There's a brand new angel in heaven today,
A little one with shining eyes and sweetest baby smile.
Tonight the folks who loved him come together to pray
And share their precious memories -- just for a while......
The Bible says that we should in everything give thanks,
But how do we thank God for the loss of such a
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Categories:
conner, death, faith, hope, uplifting,
Form: Lyric