School Farewell Poems

Born in December on a cold winter’s day
I was baptised a Christian without any say
My life given direction before I could walk
A school then chosen...

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After school on my TV screen you were there
Giving me power from my bullies or scratching my hair.
How can I forget how you looked, orange...

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I am supposed to be writing 
Poems for thank you cards,
And memory jars,
And collecting money 
For presents and food
Before the party starts.
But I find myself...

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Last Kiss

 I asked you twice, I’ll not ask thee thrice, the twice I asked was to see if question was heard, they’ll be not...

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shadowed ...

the China hills
like little pills set on end
and stairs that wend to the moon
so far from June, he thought
wrought now with frustration
on the ramp...

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Written: August 31, 2023
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Each day the evenings will shorten,
My lawn never got vibrant in my garden.
Life shifts slowly as the sun sets low in the...

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Beyond the mourning of bereavement

Today marks fourth anniversary of tragic deaths
an aching breaking heart – mine
remembers four extinguished breaths.

(dashed – not while riding off
in a...

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I see you in the bus rides to school, when the sun is shining so perfectly over the trees.

I hear you in the music I...

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#IT'S TIME TO TAKE INVENTORY...

ITS TIME TO EVALUATE CERTAIN CATEGORIES...

JUST BECAUSE SOMETHING TAKES UP SPACE, DOESN'T NECESSARILY MEAN IT SHOULD...

OBTAIN
MAINTAIN 
REMAIN 

IN YOUR SPACE, NOR...

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The time has come
to bid adieu
to all the dreams
I've had of you

Of high school dances
and corsages
like so many
sweet mirages

Sunset walks
along the beach
with you forever
out of...

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We will read like our lives depended on it
Because to many of us, we assumed it did 
And then we will pass, or fail or...

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Recently we bid adieu to our seniors 
But the following year We'll be on the flip side 
This journey has been an amusing ride 
Where...

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Quote By Writer   "Death is a one time visitor."   


Death always comes ~ sometimes quickly, some times slowly  


Date Written:2/7/2023...

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I looked out my window and what did I see,               ...

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Sex and Grades

Teachers in my time 
taught math, and science and history. 
We never cared if they were single, 
or married or divorced. 
It never...

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