Dark Memorial Poems

	I
Ten laps around my town’s small park had 
become routine, and by habit I entered it
by way of the new war memorial.

Yet I never stopped...

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Slode's new poem: Bug-man
Tarantula 
Phantom motion seeking assembled characters
Catatonic semi-demonic the fervent priorities
Damned by honesty and crowned the duke of chill
Something happy 
how fast a...

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I remember the day when the terrorists shocked
Our world. I remember that sad and dreadful day.
Two planes crashed like missiles 
Into the Twin Towers in...

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Rave at the gate, With chant and shout!
Make God mind how large the turnout
When his hand, so grand and devout,
squashes us like candles snuffed out.
Bid...

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To All Who Gave Their Lives

Far across the seas, they went, to keep this great land ….safe and free.
I was just a wee bit of...

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Crystals flowing down so bright, sky falling down 
The angels singing a million songs
Abandon in the dark
Dancing away in beauty 
Away so far with daffodil's...

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Take me down to ground zero, brother,
       I need to see the truth -
     ...

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Headstones
By Michelle Morris
12/01/2023

We put headstones
On the graves of our loved ones
Names and dates and epitaphs
That cannot summarise a life

That dash in between the dates
The dash...

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The table is old and worn
nicks and scratches 
its red plastic tablecloth left over from a forgotten Christmas
its holiday pattern worn and forlorn
many a Thanksgiving...

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In winter's cold grip
In the land of the Angles
The Good Christians came
Against their will to a trial
In a grand city
Called the Ford of the Oxen
Good...

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1234 & 5
                 These were the years we had
...

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I'm getting sick of missing you
Forgive the wish to see this through
The way we lived has left you cold
Ashes last, but not to hold

Whisper secrets,...

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(Cold Harbor, Virginia, May 31-June 12, 1864;
1,845 Union dead, 788 Confederate dead)
	
	
	
	cathedrals rise,
tall arching boughs, crisscrossing limbs,
lush, leafy rooftops lofted high
and rustled by warm tender...

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He has seen life's shapeshifting drama,
He pushed against the tides of life,
He sailed across turbulent seas,
Glided through tempestuous whirls,
He climbed up mammoth mountains,
Walked through degrees...

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A trio of people 
stand arms embraced
all distant in space
Around a fourth 
all forgotten of face
The room is bare 
only a single bulbs 
hangs here...

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