Grief Poems

I am writing this poem for you today
Can’t believe you have really gone away
You were a beautiful person with a kind soul
It’s so difficult to say goodbye and let you go

Your laugh was infectious, your spirit always warm
You could put...Read More

Designated driver,
your road to end at last

The choice was yours, mistake inured,
your future now your past

Designated driver,
those high beams in your eyes

A haunting name, the lasting blame
—that night your dreams reprise

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2020)
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Just the night before,
I pulled out a stack of photographs,
There I saw memories trapped in time,
Daddy carrying me up in the air,
I, doing an aeroplane figure in the sky,
I miss daddy.


Ever so slowly I stretch out on my deck chair,
While...Read More

Times gone, forgotten
Left in the past
Harsh winds of life
Have broken my mast.

Swept no direction
Lost in my pain
Thoughts of happiness
Now a faded old stain. 

Corners of loneliness 
Fraught every day
Words of contentment 
Stand in my way.

Shadows of grief
Swallow my soul
My mind...Read More

MADNESS

All of my true best friends are dead
Swallowed by this world
Choked by their own tongues
Which couldn't speak their torment
Which couldn't voice their dread

Quiet!
All the powerful ones said,
After all, 
It's all inside your head
Keep it inside
You don't deserve your tears

Sadness?
A guilt...Read More

JED.

Jed the horse thief was a bit of a dope
Stole a pretty horse and tried to elope
Folk declared him a horse thief
And for giving them much grief
They dangled him at the end of a rope...

PADDY O'HARE.

A deep sea diver called...Read More

Sitting on a chair facing a barred door,
Awaiting trial, although a minor charge.
His life was ruined, what had he in store?
Was sure the judge would his sentence enlarge.

Pleaded guilty but not for the car theft.
He fancied a joy ride on...Read More

Everyone is in a panic.
Except me.
Everyone is frenzied.
Except me.
Everyone is crazed to the maximum degree.
Except me.

I am lying on my back in my yard in the sun.
Listening to the birds trill, they seemed stress too.
I hear little people yelling “where...Read More

I miss the, you, you used to be
Back before, we were us 
You, fully, loved me for me
My quirks, you’d dare not hush

Back before, we were us
You approved of my beliefs
My quirks, you’d dare not hush 
Now, I cause your...Read More

as if a broken-hearted lover
this somber sky cries
streams of tears 

i feel its loneliness
beating like a heart
against my window 

I hear its sob
through a pained wind 
as it echoes 
in the distance 

i look out 
its misted grief 
my disbelief...Read More

My imagination was not amused by my muse
Had I thought they were the same thing?
If so I was sorely mistaken

My imagination was tired of her taking all the credit
For every line, every rhyme, every word that made sense
That’s mine! Trixie...Read More

The opposite of OY is YO,
Two words that most New Yorkers know
And people ‘cross the globe as well,
Though what they mean, not all can tell.

So I’ll explain: the term “Oy vey”
Expresses “Woe is me!” dismay
Or “Oh, my goodness!” or “Good...Read More

GOD KNOWS THAT I AM HUMAN

God knows that I am human, He knows that I will fall,
So He’s there to forgive me when on Him I will call.
Oh yes, there is chastisement and there’s a price to pay
If from Him...Read More

I would love you till the end 
I would never be able to comprehend 
Why your destiny had to meet such a drastic end
But as your friend, I would give you a warm parting
Letting the world know that your departing
Would...Read More

She sits still
Letting her senses drown out
She looks beyond the field
A glimmer of the sunset recedes,

 
A light breeze whips up
She pulls her knees up and crosses her arms around them
And closes her eyes,

 
She sees it faintly at first
It...Read More

I was perusing on the Net
It was good fortune to have met
Not in person, I'm sad to say
An Interesting woman, anyway
Interesting and talented too
Amazing what she succeeded to do
After a very late start
Aged 78 before painting Folk Art
This person had...Read More

in great detail
on and on
and on and on 
they went

blah blah
blah blah
ask me if I care
but I'm polite

I wear my best
bad ass poker face
my head wants to explode
but still they have no clue

can’t believe people can't read
that big heavy flashing...Read More

Grief 
is such a lonely road
that I must walk 
now you have gone
Family and friends
are always there
but for me 
my grief 
I cannot share
And when they ask me
‘How am I’
I smile and say
‘Yes I’m okay’
But that’s not true
For deep inside
is...Read More

a cardinal sang ...

sweet, to send my soul soaring,

til I saw his muse ...

a beautied mate - his one love -

cold and still ... on April snow.





Written and submitted on February 23, 2020
For the "Let The Pens Flow - Tanka"...Read More

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Reality is something you rise above."
                                         -Liza Minelli
                

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Have you ever felt someone getting closer than most? I have. 
Then just like that they’ve moved on along...

 I can’t even be trusted with my own thoughts. Why do I think I can trust other? When inspiration was true......Read More

Lost
?for the children of the Holocaust and the Nakba
by Michael R. Burch

Something inescapable is lost—
lost like a pale vapor curling up into shafts of moonlight,
vanishing in a gust of wind toward an expanse of stars
immeasurable and void.

Something uncapturable is gone—
gone...Read More

The Good,                                      ...Read More

Our life is made up of milestones,                                 ...Read More