Funeral Men Poems

I always said expectations will be the death of both of us 
I made this bed and now I'm lying in it 
But I was...

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I just finished flipping the calendar to March
I keep a paper one hanging on my kitchen wall 
despite everything being digital 
I’m old school some...

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During the funeral of a beloved friend,
I encountered death the other day.
He stood tall
Imposing
Majestic 
Not threatening at all.

Encouraged by his look,
I, hesitantly approached him and...

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I realized this one day, and others also concur
Men have a difficult time living alone, but women love it.
When a man’s spouse runs away or...

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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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In front of impending disaster

He stood there

Right beside the operation theater

Watching his parents

Going mad with pain

A thousand thoughts were flowing in his mind

What would happen...

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"Nyx Twixt"




Blown

A long kiss,
he’s so Marshmallow
pretending to be
Peanut Brittle 

She’s not interested
in small minds revelling
in a life less lived
Little

So she’ll toast him 
by the fire...

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IF YOU PULL A LONG FACE : Part XXVIII

IF you pull a long perplexed face
You could be watching SUMO in Tokyo Bay
Or reading this without...

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3 old men
sit in funeral home
alone...

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Elden Hewett smiled at the sight
of Gretta Coburn moving his way,
she had worked here at his saloon,
ever since that dark, tragic day.

He pinched her as...

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I was cast down, thrown out and rejected;
All because I didn't heed to the message;
In reviewing my sins;
I didn't repent of them;
The pastor preached on...

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I thought of dying and dying young

Set the funeral up for dawn

Vultures flying around my brain

Trying to pry out what it may contain

A couple memories...

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He cries in grief at the funeral, he's just lost his best friend.
He passed away so quickly, but had been loyal to the end.
Observers remarked,...

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He asked her why they allow it,
How they could be subordinate to a woman.

“They would never take you seriously.” 

She smiled and turned her face,
Moved...

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All turned down to the worst
as the children lost innocence,
as the bums drank their last breath away,
as the man eating sharks finding their way,
to the...

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