Anniversary Death Poems

She wrote him everyday while he was away at war.
No address to send to left her heart sadly torn.
Months passed on by
Not knowing if he's...

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   REMEMBERING

Hot, heat is the first impression,
this is the one that lasts
three hundred and sixty five days.

From the portal of the freedom bird
a...

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From Poland hailed your Uncle Max, who in matters of manners was a bit lax,
While from France came Aunt Belle, whom I thought was really...

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I see big changes, 
Everybody's walking around,
Heads face the ground,
You made us so very proud.
The eleven man crew is one man down,
Gone but not forgotten...

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Dear brother, I am writing you this letter, 
in my room wearing your high school sweater.
The news I send is not of much import
just thought...

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Your words, which seem to be my words,
are but footprints on the fen floor of
the white page, echoes of wand'ring lyric loping.

And if, perhaps, the...

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Ordained special event at birth takes place
The soul divine enters the life nascent
Track at journey’s edge death waits to efface
Time of living the two ends...

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When of your hand my eyes are closed 
-When of loss your eyes are clothed, 
Understand that sleeping is not death 
And that death is...

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“...He said his wife in bed with another man,
she thought he was at work, he cried out ‘Tramp!’
Eric then, he lost control,
white hot rage claimed...

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I miss your mind and our brotherly hugs
Ties that bind upon which heartstrings tug
We used to laugh, we used to play
When we'd fight the things...

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I went to Savers on the other day
And what struck me right away
Was how many things placed in the store
That were obviously from dead people...

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I kissed you goodbye, sixteen years ago today,
I said "I love you", as you went on your way.
How was I to know, you would never...

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Fuck, I have a confession
I googled your stuff,
That pic you sent me, it caught my attention. 
I read your poems about you and your dad...

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Before the metabolism slows and
With the decline in food and water and
Before the dehydration and lack of energy, before I lose my appetite,
I'm on a...

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Dear Brother, 
Its been four years since you've left me, 
and every day is an endless ache.
I wake up forgetting that your missing, 
that death...

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WHAT
TREASURES hid in clay
We see them everyday
Like water, air and light we need
We need them everyday

WHAT ever can we say
These treasures on life's way
We rarely...

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You was the purpose of my life 
you was the reason of my smile
Without you I m hollow, I can t swallow
I Can't eat, why...

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Though unworthy to write thee a sonnet 
thine anniversary of thou death, bard,
like a tome stone with nothing upon it
excuse mine language I do discard,
mine...

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Good Friday Gratitude to Settlers
Columbus gave it lip service
He loved the Virgin Mary
Almost knew Jesus Christ
Could not have had the Holy Spirit Fire

Today, or any...

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 Five decades have made his preaching prophetic, didactic
Fresh from College, he was invited to go on teaching, O Professor King!
Chiseled his own Gettysburg address,...

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