Funeral December Poems

A grief for the traditional ugliness we find in the season
To welcome the trees flaunting over again
Prompted to open our eyes to the life blooming...

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Revelations
David J Walker

And now I know 
	The certainty 
Of the coming 
	Of autumn 
When these 
young green leaves 
must turn and fall

It is Spring 
	And...

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Not long ago when the summers seemed warmer and the winters were whiter. When the trees grew crown of leaves bright, a transparent green. Then...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Local Memorial Service

Outside the funeral agency two employees
dressed for their job, stood smoking, by the pavement 
a hearse with coffin inside stood waiting.
finally, they threw...

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Tribute to those slain at sandy hook elementary school ™

I read the terribly tragic news oh boy
about unlucky kids 
   at a Connecticut...

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You always said you are not promised tomorrow
And now we know a life lossed can bring much sorrow,

How can it be you were here and...

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Dear diary,
Earlier I asked Mommy when Daddy would return,
And she simply smiled, "Soon, Little Bird."
But when I left the room, I could hear Mommy crying,
Then...

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Touching  any metal un-gloved,
Turns skin to tin, fingers on fire,
Breathing inside what’s above,
Kindles lungs to a stinging pyre.
Exhaled steam is white as a dove.
Some...

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During the time of our sleep
When not even mice would make sounds
The planes they did creep
Hunting their targets like savage hounds
And when they struck
The ground...

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I stare upon December's moon,
and wonder why some leave so soon.
When news hits us like shattered glass...
Can we believe what's come to pass?
When we aren't...

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Where are you Tink,When are you coming home?
K missed me more than I  knew,
But I was so caught up in work ,with my new...

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