Son Narrative Poems

Well, what can I say to help you celebrate such a momentous day!
I would like to speak about the things I know best about you...

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THE LOST SOUL
By Patricia A. Fleming

Seven AM and I sat at the light,
Watching the train chugging by.
A day like the rest on the way to...

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MY STEPMOTHER'S CRUELTY

I am a prisoner in my father's house
I wait until she goes to sleep to get food,
I am no difference to a mouse
My...

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Dale fell to the ground, shot through the chest,
in shock as Joel paced on up to him,
his last words were “Why?  Why did you...

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Joel just collapsed into the brown dirt,
clutching his face in both of his palms,
cried,”Running Moon, the day that you ‘died,’
was the day my life started...

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For all that day the frantic chase went on,
until evening’s gloom started to spill,
even in the middle of a warm August,
Yukon nights can give a...

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At the remote Carmacks trading post,
during eighteen hundred and ninety-four,
a teenage child, a scared-looking half-breed,
timidly entered through the front door.

Joel Claughtrey barely noticed the young...

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The Easter Triduum 

The agony
the pain
the torment
the blood
of Jesus
innocently suffered
affliction
an undeserved pain
tortured by mankind
Christ so kind
was crucified
died
for the world
 says the Word
"This is my Son..."
...

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He was about thirty

         when he left home,

a strong man by then,

and a skilled carpenter.

He'd helped Joseph

...

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Odyssey from Africa 15b (Southland)

“Like an antelope in stature 
Yet they hopped along like sparrows!
On big hind limbs like a rabbit’s
With a rat-like tail behind...

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The lead thug burst forth, swinging at Max,
catching him with a fist just under the eye,
Max pitched backwards, fell to the floor,
off-balanced, he slammed hard...

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           Easter Joy

The joy of Easter
Is found within
It started way back
When Christ had risen

Now each...

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A mother was born and dreamed of a beautiful life.
A new journey had begun - but a hard path lay ahead.
Demons seduced her beloved -...

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Once so loyal and always true the gargoyles watch everything now
During their stony slumbers with their careful one-eyed open view,
As evil red-eyed demons rain down...

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Adam was the father,
Abel was the son
Thus it was ... in the beginning,
love and faith was Eve passed on

Lamech was the father,
Noah was the son
In...

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ON MY MOTHER’S PASSING

i wanted to keep my mother physically with me
but it would be like trying to hold the sun
like in life she still...

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It was promising to be a cloudy grey day if things held up' still what can you expect in England in Janruary Tom reasoned, he...

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THE CONTENT FAMILY

Once upon a time, long, long ago in a far away land; in the land where Miss Right lived, there came a young...

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Why do you two
Have to fight
In front of his pure eyes
He was oblivious
He thought it was the best kind of Passion
Love

But
The passion you have
Is nothing...

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Chapter 13d

Yet at length he reawakened 
As if in another lifetime 
Han discerned a sound and movement 
Stiffly rose to look about him

And he saw...

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