Brave the shave for Macmillan
I'm looking forward to have my shave,
It's not the thought of being brave,
I just feel the urge to do some good,
And hopefully help to lift my mood,
Macmillan helped through times of need,
My stories there for all to read,
They understand they help you cope,
With your life that's hit a slope ,
Macmillan
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Categories:
macmillan, bereavement, cancer, death,
Form: Rhyme
Searching For Macmillan Hall
When we walk the campus
to what used to be the center,
we might miss the venerable place.
Taller piles of brick and towers
obscure the central space
of Western Pennsylvania brownstone.
Who hasn’t heard the poet moan:
“Present concerns shroud the past;
Granddad’s principles will not last.”
But as we turn the corner
at the edge of vast Old Main,
we may glimpse a
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Categories:
macmillan, assonance, education, history, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Macmillan Support Poem
Macmillan Support
Don't think your alone
I will always be with you
I'll hold you
You don't have walk alone
I will always be by your side
Bringing you fresh roses and chocolates
Holding you all the way
Just remember I love you
And I will always be there
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Categories:
macmillan, allah, care, caregiving, god,
Form: Free verse
To Cyndi Macmillan, From Jack Horne
By day the toys surround her in a group,
But when her little girl is sleeping sound,
The keyboard’s where our poet will be found,
To write some magik lov - her words astound;
She always brings the gift of joy to Soup.
Merry Christmas, Cyndi xx
*For PD’s contest
Cyndi wrote a poem, Lov is Magik, as a girl
One
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Categories:
macmillan, dedication,
Form: Rhyme
John Michael Macmillan
JOHN MICHAEL MACMILLAN
What do they call you in heaven, John Michael MacMillan?
Are you still the "Baby-Baby", that player from the past?
Sometimes I try to catch you, somehow to hold you
Long enough to know that your ship has safely docked.
Can you read the poem alone now, John Michael MacMillan?
Did God allow you the small, simple pleasure
Of
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Categories:
macmillan, friendship, introspection, loss, god,
Form: Free verse