Death No Go Poems

You're a cannibal, baby, 
consuming pieces of my heart, 
chewing on my frailty, 
and tearing me apart, 

You're a scavenger, baby, 
overhead with your eyes...

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How sweet the sorrow
How deep the void 
We go on with one less tale of footprints in the sand beside us. 
With wishful eye is...

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These thoughts will follow
whenever the soldiers go...
to be with them into the battlefield,
reciting the shortest prayer
to protect them as a shield
in moments of uncertainty and...

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I hugged her lightly.
Never having a sister before,
I was scared I’d break her.
Turtle, the best name I decided.
A shelter from harm always near her.

She grew...

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But where did grandpa go?
Swan wife looked at her husband.
Wondered if he truly did not know.
Possibly not. His parents were not spiritual.
She replied, “He went...

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On Christmas day before he died,
I went home to visit my dad.
The house was full of family, 
our mood was quite somber and sad.

We drifted...

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Dead to Sin, Alive in Christ

What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase?
By no means! We died to...

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The air is cold
As the night is dark
Placing all sins on hold;
I don't want feelings; so stark
Didn't listen; but I had been told
A coarse time...

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Death is a step to letting go,
but it's not the last, not even the first.

Orgasms can be a little death,
in their letting go moments.

Thunderbolts of...

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Dad, when I entered this world, and your eyes were laid upon me, you vowed to never let me go and decorate the world I...

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Go gentle into life’s eve, death’s your friend,
Old age clamours to wear a new garment,
Rage not against death, death is not an end.

Should night be...

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I got up at 1:00 am this morning just after the break of day, the overnight air had just begin to rise sending a multitude...

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The family had trouble letting grandpa go.
They watched as the casket was lowered low.
Some stayed until they had filled the entire hole.
“God bless him,” they...

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Time to go

Spires rise above the clouds
gleaming gold against
the rainbow sky.

Pressed and pleated uniform
stylish on his shoulders
but he doesn’t know why.

Last thing he knew
it was...

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Where do they go with broken hearts
For the ones whose life now departs
Do they look for comfort from inside
Or look to ones with whom they...

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