Holiday Missing Poems

The holidays have come on gone away,
The parties, desserts, and relatives too,
But something wells up from my chest to say,
“More than anything else, my friend,...

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I am now "away from the noise,"  
my fruit gum I am chewing.  
Sitting here wondering what the boys,  
could be doing.  

 
 
Now all unpacked,  
a book I...

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The mail has just arrived,  
come quickly, my pocket holds his words.  
Read me his letter,  
I long to hear his voice....

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I worked at a boisterous animal shelter, which wasn't too far from my home,
That filled days with barks, meows and singing, like green wilderness zones.

I...

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*Image of Palm Tree Lights Trunk Wrap by Christmas Lights, Etc.

ILMO Our Eldest Brother Kimo (James)

Our sixties Christmas--as my memory serves, where
our eldest brother freshly...

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Coloring smiling faces donned with faux missing teeth,
and waxing poetic lip schtick adorned with moustaches

Swarthy, spooky, scary carved
pumpkin faces thickly materialized 
out of thin air
as...

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Butterfly

Butterfly sweet, 
lovely wings of gossamer gold. 
Stretch your tips to the stars, 
as that is the reality of freedom. 
Glide for hours above the...

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A Guest

Little tiny mouse, 
why are you in my house? 
Out the back door, 
there are fields aplenty. 
Down by the creek,
there is water, afresh....

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I still smell the chicken you used to cook
A special recipe from your handwritten book
During this merry-making time of the year
You are the first one...

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Everywhere I looked for you
places where I travelled,
For I couldn’t comprehend at all
stories that unravelled.

Swear they lied that you had died
the things that people say,
Why...

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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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Friendships that go bad    
Some even must decay  
I am still missing you   
I sit alone on the bay....

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I think she knew, I wasn’t sure,
About the way I felt,
That every time she spoke to me,
My heart would almost melt.
Her long dark hair enchanted...

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You are gone

You remembered my birthday for easily fifty years
Every October without fail a card and in later years
An optional call or text.
Where is your...

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Sue’s tears of joy fell like torrential rain,
as she embraced him at the train station.
Her only son had just returned from Spain,
she was overcome with...

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