Patriotic Obituary Poems

as the Towers die away 
alone on a beach where thunderheads Roll 
where I stood far from
shards of glass fire, horror, disaster
they televised only elemental...

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Lower the flags to half mast,
America the Beautiful has been gutted,
Its word emptied of all meaning,
There is no jubilant throng singing,
“Glory, glory Hallelujah!”
Our nation’s heroes...

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The Crowned Dead

The growing of green things, 
should concern all of us. 
The fires burning in far lands, 
can still reach US(a). 
There are all...

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Unexpected Cruise

The ship is exactly 40.1 feet long. 
Don’t suppose they could go back, 
and get a larger craft?
I am seasick. 
There is some kind...

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American Soldier

God Bless you all, American Soldiers. 
For your dedication: to Our Country.
 
For putting your own life first; 
You are even sacrificing; 
Losing your...

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Years have come and gone
Since Big Bantu lay bedridden
After being brutally beaten like the bembe drum
It seems his world is done.

Bantu the man
Now lay helpless
In...

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An old man looking out his door,
gaze fixed on a distant shore,
reminiscing to a time, not of happiness,
or, the prospect of a bright future,
to when...

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The Old Salt was a special man who came along in a time
when he was needed most.

A time that is now gone forever.
When men believed...

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