Friend Death Poems

The day the asteroid came down the dinosaurs were playing,
With toys and bats and balls and things, some dancing jigs and swaying.
Young Betty Brontosaurus was...

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For the Passing Of My Dog Bear today
 
Vera Rosina Sonnet

The Passing of My Dog Bear

Oh, it’s such a sad day, to day
My sweet dog...

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Another


     Another one is gone. A friend, family, a piece of my life and the fabric of the world; gone to...

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My Friend Good-bye

The heavens will shine 
much brighter now,
Your essence is a part
of it 
You left before the eclipse
It's as if the moon 
waited for you
Shining as big...

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Staring at the blank walls
You think of the what ifs
The what it could be,
The why it happened

You’re stuck
Stuck in a battle of the past
Begging for...

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I want to feel you coursing through my veins.
I want to vibrate as you rattle me to the bone.
I want to perspire as you transcend...

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My teacher died.
   
   His lungs failed him.

He taught me that the lungs
harbor grief.

   His lungs are gone.
My grief...

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We left the city that was sunny and bright,
At this haunted house and it now seems like night,
Looking at this mysterious home,
Suddenly we don't feel...

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it's here next to me 
poof its gone
poof I'm gone
poof a changing  world
...

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I’ve never been to church but,
Sometimes I believe in God when I look at you,
That’s the thing with religion  -  even when they...

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I've visited so many places before,
Searching for someone exactly like you;
It took me months of patience and will,
Then I finally found you that is true.

It...

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She could not be less than my Love, my Friend,
She broke open each fiction I’d believed,
She touched my hands like Time would never end,
And, in...

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An Unlively Very Stiff (upper Lip) Masquerade
(any resemblance between averred one laid
to rest and yours truly...purely coincidental
regarding unnamed person liberated 
into heavenly glade!)

though innocently youthful...

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Black Dog 2

Mary was a single Mom;
Her stress was very great.
Sometimes her kids ate crackers,
And sometimes the rent was late.

Black Dog! What’s your purpose?
Why are...

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Have you read a poem lately; they're all written in ‘free verse’.
Like the murmurs of a hippy high on drugs or something worse,
They're a dangling...

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We all live
And we all die
And I often stop
And wonder why

In life we are not
Loved so clearly
'Til our passing haunts
The mind so dearly

I wish it...

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Black Dog

Johnny was a quiet boy:  
He lived by Rangar Wood.
Johnny’s mother loved him,
As all good Mother’s should.

Black dog what’s you purpose?
Just to howl...

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It never seems to end
as you lose another friend
when death comes grimly reaping
and he leaves the mourners weeping

How terrible the day
when someone fades away
and they...

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Death is when you
Are alive in the shadow
Death is when you can
Sit and sing with your ancestors...

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When my long day's journey's over,
And my dues have all been paid,
And I've had a chance
To glimpse what's 'round the bend,
When I reach my patch...

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