Death Parents Poems

Ok, now I realize that she is the one not so old 
and not so cool but love is full of pool
No she not want...

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So let me get this straight
You thought that we'd be fine
That's really what you said
When you went to end your life?
You thought it would be...

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Inspired by a moving storyline in a show. There is no greater loss than the loss of a child. The only thing worse is how...

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Why marrying today 
And divorcing tomorrow? 
Marriage is not  dry run
                        or dummy run
Marriage is not hubbub
                       or rehab
Marriage is not hotchpotch
                       or hodgepodge
Marriage is...

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Breaking the chains-
Required lots of pain, 
Starting from young age.

Mom died when I was 16
Dad passed when I was 23.
Their demons danced together,
over 25 years...

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Working over Birk’s Works and other tunes my saxophonist likes—
Cheesecake, Blackbird—for the theoretical, applied mathematics inside
an abstract, audial harmonization of the Big Bang and The...

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Christmas cards and credit cards
and lists of much to plenty.
It's choking Daddy half to death.
They think I'm made of money.

Give me this and I want...

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You were diagnosed with Leukemia and sadly, you didn't survive.
If you hadn't died 111 months ago, today you would've turned 75.
You were born on October...

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Anytime I hear the story of how I was born I tend to tear up 
Cos I see not just a woman, I see a...

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Onerous task confronted teachers and parents

As prospective students
ably ready themselves to matriculate
and/or first set little feet 
inside halls of learning,
I rebroadcast a poem crafted
at the...

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It's 1 am and I'm trying to sleep
The stillness of night disturbed by shrieks
Noise that I couldn't stand
Why must I be so quick to cry?

Forgive...

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She was born and cried for her daddy
I was there to hold her in my arms
She gurgled, with a slight giggle
My heart dropped right then
At...

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It is a beautiful spring morning,                   ...

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Children of absent fathers walk around with empty baskets in their hearts, waiting for anything that resembles love to fill them up. 

A lesson in...

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And hurried they did
Rid their troubles 
The doctor would
Could cure all ills 
In their minds
Faith she finds
As doctors do nothing
Closes, the ring
Tight at night
The pain...

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