Sister Eulogy Poems

We find ourselves with you in time, 
Thoughts of you are roaming our minds
Angels playing music at the Gate
Heaven will be Home; let's call it...

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A day
That I’ll always remember
A very somber DAY
A very sad day
A day to ponder
A day to wonder
A day
Not like any other day
A very unusual day
A...

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time’s sands swirl
the spinners spin, our marionette lines
twisting and entwined
caught upon each other’s lives

loss now stains my mottled 
once proud face, scaffolding 
slack and slipping...

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" Our Dearest and Beloved sister, now we are assured that you'll at a much " peaceful rest."  " God suddenly called you home,...

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We do not know
When we say goodbye
Because tomorrow
Only belongs to God in the sky
We do not know
About the last glance
About the last song
Even if we...

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In Remembrance of Trevor John Starr
1st September 1945 – 5th November 2016

For Trevor
There are no words for you to say
to someone you’ve loved so long
Brother,...

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Grim reaper scion donned as nodule on lung...

Lodged squarely upon corporeal property
(i.e. necessary soft tissue)
of Amelie Beth Harris-McGeehan
mine eldest sister,
when medical technician informed
aforementioned unpleasant tidings
earlier...

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Found the words to say so now here it goes
I hope you don't mind I'm not very good at Prose
Younger than my mother, yet...

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We hurtle down the last few hundred feet 
of steep lavender lined cobbled slope 
shaded by majestic umbrella pines - around
a last hairpin turn and...

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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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Ask and remember 
Every time I think of you.

Ask your friends, they say to remember your kindness, your dimple, and your smile given to everyone...

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Into our classroom she flowed
Habit forming a sweeping swirl
And rosily did her face glow beneath her wimple
Pink and shining as though wafted straight  from...

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Saudade for friends I have lost

as I get older
I lose more people
every year

more people I knew
have died moving on 
and I mourn their lost friendship

wished...

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Scales to Measure

We are not all equal. 
Some can dance on a wire...
above the crowd, 
Some can swim...
all the way to China. 
While others,
make food...

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Things of Need

When I open up my cupboard, 
I find it full of items, 
lost…and then found. 

This piece of glass, that item made of...

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