Memorial Day Poems

The river you need is just beneath if you can dig below
The money you sole desire is just inside of you only if You can work it out
The heaven you desire is in you create it out 
The wealth of...Read More

The Fine Lady

It is the first time I can remember, 
that I cared about china. 
Which pattern to pick, 
where to buy it, 
and why. 

The first ladies pick their dishes. 
They pick special placements, 
for the guests of the...Read More

Historical Outlaws

What, are you talking about? 
I am saying that we have a past. 
It is full of guns, and law, 
and law breakers. 
It is full of heroes and villains
and homemakers. 

We are America(s). 
We stand up, 
we do...Read More

The Forgotten holidays

Written or in this case typed…
correctly; “The” as it was at the beginning correct. 
“Forgotten” as it was naming not the action but the lost.
(holidays) No capital as they are thought to be small, 
and unimportant by most...Read More

Friends, 

I repost this poem this Memorial Day in honor of my 19 year old uncle who was killed in battle in WWII. He sacrificed his life for others. May he rest in Heaven.

Our Heroes
  
What have our son’s...Read More

White Marble Stones
White marble stones
Stand side by side
Reminding us of
Those who fought and died
White marble stones
Memories of
Parents or children
Or friends that we loved
White marble stones
Row after row
Freshly turned soil
Rain, sleet or snow
White marble stones
New chiseled names
Soft bugled notes
Echoed refrains
White marble...Read More

O!  Slip in between!  The Dukes of Darkness,
In this cold part of the year!

The Baron of Night!
The Baron of Wind!
The Baron of Seeds!

When the Copper Trumpet
Bells out, bright and clear!

And men brood the quiet,
Men who have sinned,
And recall...Read More

Millennials standing most assured
need no knowledge of the war
Too evolved, won’t be anymore,
Yet lessons prevent they ignore

For war was long before their time
and now all are living fine
how or why not on their mind
assured all war is left behind 

Oh...Read More

On the open fields across the river
Where the land is parched sallow 
The patchy grass in cold quiver
When the freezing icy winds blow!!

The grassy fields have tales to tell,
Of heroes and the many dead,
Of blood, of flesh that painful yell
As...Read More

The celestial light is about to go and escapes;
As dawn enters, and cover it with darkness.
She was able to finish mysteries, with less air to breathe.
Rosary is on her side, and then closes her eyes and fall to sleep.

White candles...Read More

Dear Brother,

How I wish I could have known you, you wanted to be, the brother with life so planned, so carefree not these memories of you filled with pain but not hidden enough by the rain. You did whatever you...Read More

Noor* of Taj Mahal, jeweled in red stone 
 death or love, tranquil oasis alone
 rich jasper and jade hanging on its walls
 in cold melody, mourning music falls

 Mesmerizing bride in gossamer gown
 Veil reveals... the majestic palace crown.
...Read More

Author Dana Redricks 
June 29, 2019 

In memory of my Mamma 
Although we went through 
a lot you meant the world to 
to me 
I miss you like crazy but I
Know I will see you again 
someday 
Until we meet...Read More

Losing a loved one is not easy on the living
You get people telling you in time it gets easier
However, in your eyes it really does not,
Because you remember, how they were so giving.

Whether it is a parent, sibling or dearest...Read More

Once I paused, with my dusty feet
Braving the heat, to cast a mournful look
At the fancy graves along cemetery street;
The erect old brown stones too are hard to overlook;
They must be fine places of rest, perhaps,
Or mere monuments in memory...Read More

Life, aloud it sings with strings 
but none know its lay. 
Shouting here and there of no help it ensures. 
Setting the blink of the microscope across onwards,


The memory of her blocks my skull, 
Till almost getting to where our...Read More

For the ones we lost

over cast gray cold 
we were young
strong bold
the waves tore us to shreds
as the foam on the 
beach head
turned red
the rain was hot as 
the sun
tearing flesh apart
even our guns 
this was not a walk 
in...Read More

I Never Really Knew My Dad (A Memorial Day Tribute) 

I never really knew my dad
As well as I wish I might;
He was a sailor in World War II
In the great Pacific fight.  

He survived the war but died...Read More

I roam through this pathway of life's gravesite
The air is calm upon the rubblestone,
Where buried reveries no longer stray
For those who left a tired, embattled world.

How they lay at rest unknown or unsung
Decreed by time, wait in mercy of God,
And...Read More

Translated by Przemyslaw Musialowski 5/27/2019

Hush now, Mother, it's only poverty grumbling 
in the chimney that it's better because I also think so, 
but only probably, because they claim that it will pass, 
those experts who think of simple people only...Read More

School wastes my time
I want to be President
I want power and prestige.

I want to be able to be mean to the handicapped
I want to be able to snatch children from their parents
I want to disregard every law that was ever...Read More

Let me tell you about my eldest brother.

I am: the "Scram!", the "Beat it!", the "What you looking at?!", and the "Turn around and watch the movie!", younger brother. As you can see, he has, a lot of phrases he...Read More

Remember those who have fallen
              so we may stand in freedom.

Remember our military heroes not with sadness alone
but remember them with love
They gave all, more than their...Read More

Americans are Americans, period.
No matter color, sex and for heavens, sake!
Not ....Their "party affiliation,"
On which some are insanely fixated.

We were born au natural.
We were not born as a member of political party.
That's a choice you make way later.
But some think...Read More

May is my happy month, for she is my birth month 
Some people treat themselves with a birthday.
I made the decision to celebrate my birth month
And I do. I buy whatever I want. Packages arrive daily.

Lilac trees, snowball trees, red...Read More