Grief Lullaby Poems

sleep well, o gentle giant
your soft voice still echoes 
through luscious midnight air
beneath a moon that seems enchanted
 
sleep well, o gentle giant
let your mind...

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I think it’s like a lullaby
to hear the rhythm of sweet rain
come falling, falling from the sky
and tapping on my windowpane.

Pitter-patter, pitter-patter.
I think it’s like...

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Often, I still find that I am singing my goodbye lullaby song,
for a little baby boy who is buried and I will all my...

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The Gift That I Give You                   ...

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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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Re-Creating Peace

The basket of castoffs is full. 
No one can wear clothes, torn and stained. 
Holes and rips that show use. 
The scissors cut them...

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The Dawn Ballet

Let me dance for You, 
before I put my feet upon the floor. 
Let me sing out your praise, 
before the day has...

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One More

Ingredients are a funny thing. 
Timing is probably more important. 
But it is hard to say really. 

I cooked all day, but…
I wanted it...

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Cartoons

Saturday morning, early, 
we sat around the toob…(tv)
We laughed. 

Road runner was too fast, 
the coyote was always too slow. 
Thundar was a Barbarian, 
and...

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I sit by sorrow's streams
Amidst wistful longing
Your first soft kiss that lingered
will forever haunt my dreams

How sad it seems
to be so slavishly in love
weary even...

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Moonlight beckons the stray souls
   conjured from pain and lost in time
Guided by memories and kins' yowls
   they meld in styx...

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rain fell down 
 not droplets outside 
 but tears from within 
 drowning a once
 determined soul,
 breaking it.
 sad people love the 
...

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Sleepy little baby
	Lying in your crib
	Sighing in your crib
	Dying in your crib.

Sickly little sweetheart
	Sinking from my sight
	Fevered in the night
	Dreaming of the light.

Dying little dear...

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Close your eyes and good night
Really!!
I can’t even close my eyes for five minutes,
much less all night.

And rock-a-bye baby! 
     With...

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What happened to us my sweetheart,
Where are the days of sweet love gone,
How did so much change so fast,
Why did our morning end before dawn?

Where...

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