Reunion Poems

The Key of Eternity

Beloved flame, my faithful, fearless, fiery flame,
No fleeting face can steal the light I claim.
Your light and shadow guide my night and day,
Though distance tugs my heart to drift away.

If ever faith should falter, love would break,
Yet though you turn another path to take,
If silence falls, the bond dissolves to dust,
My arms remain a harbor

Coming Home 2025

After year and a half, my son and his wife,
Came from East coast to visit me on the west coast,
I was so happy, I remembered my early days,
When I visited my parents in India from USA after 2 years.

In old days, the monthly postal aerogramme was the only messenger,
Every letter conveyed the good wishes and

Reunited

In crescendos and surges of light,
Beneath the somber, crimson sky,
Beyond the shadow's line,
He stretched his wings in haste
He found and swept an angels heart;
They shine and struck embrace
And onward flew the angels,
By crimson flame and flash
We simply stood and stared a while,
And heard the trumpets blast.
We saw it singed and scorched in light
And in the

The Celestial NAAFI

The Celestial NAAFI

Well there sits old Buck like he always did,
Waving his pipe and tilting his lid.
There’s Johnny and Ronny and Shep and old Taffy,
And Soapy still doing his impression of Daffy.
Flapper all quiet at the side with McGraw.
Knocker and Geordie, and old Billy Shore.
And over there’s Banjo, spinning his yarns,
And Bod with his girlfriends,

High School Reunion

My high school reunion:
old classmates, 
old friends, 
old adversaries, 
old strangers
meet after decades
trying to discern
who's who,
who's lived,
who's passed,
who's disappeared...
lost youth commemorated...
survival celebrated.

Class Reunion

Six besties had agreed
at graduation,
pinky swore,
to meet ten years later
no matter where they'd be,
come what may.

And here they were finally:
Gayle, Suzie, Diane, Donna, Lucy, Michelle,
together at last from across the country.

They had kept in touch through facebook
as much as their busy schedules allowed.
All had gone off to university or college.
Some had since married, some had

Chance Meeting

(“Before the Door”, 2023, original encaustic)

Chance Meeting

Where were you when we met just now
In something of a hub,
Airport terminal or hotel lobby,
As you walked right by 
And our eyes met
Yours growing in shocked amazement
As you exclaimed,
“What are you doing here!?”
And we hugged in warm embrace.

You now long gone
And yet still we meet in transit
Each of

The Reunion

There is no need
for me to chase,
just prepare a place 
and keep still.
In time it will come,
quietly, unannounced,
at first with caution 
born out of hurt. 
Circling me
it will gradually 
wind in the distance
of its fear 
and pause quite near,
then draw closer, 
and closer,
until it presses
its trembling warmth 
against me and nestles
under my arm.
Slowly I will

Class Reunion Dreamin'

All my friends are round 
And their hair is gray 
I can hardly walk 
On class reunion day 
I'd be safe and warm 
If I'd stayed in bed today 
Class reunion dreamin' 
Oh what a telling day

Fell down in a lurch
When stumbling 'long the way
Well, I got up on my knees 
And there I was

One flesh in morning light

Long ago, when the sun and earth were one flesh held tight
When male and female were one light
Shining as the white moon, turning as the wheel of night
We had immeasurable might 
Because we had four legs, four ears, eight eyes and four hands 
We had two faces that looked towards the heavenly lands

Saklas, terrified of

My Travelogue

After two weeks of riding the winds across the world,
I return to the nest where my heart had perched all along.
Meeting old souls and young flames was a melody of warmth,
Their greetings, like golden threads, wove memories into my soul.

Living alone in my quiet cocoon, I had forgotten the dance of life,
But among many hearts

Obnoxious Boor at Family Reunion

He was obnoxious almost to the point of repulsive
Constant banter escaped his always yapping jowls
He gave you no space or peace, monopolizing all conversation
Many stopped attending family reunions due to this brazen boor

Reunion Stories on TV

Some people easily eradicate their past
When I hear of it, it makes me gasp
How can you never see a son or daughter?
Sometimes six thousand miles away across deep water.
TV happily-ever-after reunion stories seem farfetched to me
Unbelievable amounts of forgiveness on TV

Delusion

Never knew senses could deceive until now,
seeing a bright I scurry .
Nirvana makes my imagination go mere gesture.
where I lay unaware of raucous voice ,
Is this the locus?

A dear face I recognize,
charming as allure itself .
I believed as we cross paths again,
wonder gets my most reflecting how u did.

My dear, embrace me as first-ever.
Must I

1st family reunion

2025.2.1
My big happy family 1st reunion.
Today, Saturday, is the 4th day of CNY.
It is a bit late to gather and to celebrate.
Can't help it though, since most members,
Worked during the weekdays.
Great grandma, grandmas, mothers and fathers, all 
Sisters and brothers, including the in-law.
Aunties and Uncles, nephew, nieces and cousins
And their girl and boy friends.
Grand children

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