Wedding Sorrow Poems

Smiles, 
Playful banter
Chatter of today’s weather
Listening to your woes of why sis is a 

Smiles,
Playful banter 
Chat about today’s traffic 
Listening to you go on...

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A wedding celebration
Vows were solemnly spoken
Then a voice hissed in her ear
Spinning her world upside down
Confetti fell like bullets
Exploding around her head
Vacant were sad hazel...

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Daddy, Are You Sleeping?

Long car rides, or late night movies.
Piggyback rides down our long hallway,
then, you to pour me into bed.
Daddy, are you sleeping?
Newspaper glued...

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The End of Nothing

I am sitting...
waiting and thinking. 
Really going crazy, 
slowly insane. 
I am at home, 
trapped. (by discretion)

My guy is in the building....

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The Cane

Not made of candy, but real wood. 
It belonged to my father’s father, 
and his father, before him. 

No, they were all good man....

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Prayer 

On Sunday, 
The saints gather…
Not the normal service, 
later, when others…
are home. 

They are quiet, 
and humble. 
They have come, 
to the house of...

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She sits slowly sipping 
her glass of wine
Is this number four or five? 
She’s lost track 
of everything, 
except 
the snow blanketing the ground outside
Three...

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Atrocious affliction trembles voices of anguish 
Brewing vile horror in death of tomorrow
Fearing for the newborn, women, and children
For yesterday’s massacre killed her husband
And the...

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We had found each other 
In the most unusual way

Not everyone was happy about it
But their opinions didn’t matter

You became my whole world 
And I...

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"Your blood is in my hands,
I see your body lying face down at my feet.
I wipe my cheek and remove my wedding band,
I throw it...

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What is life without love?

And love without any life...

For I die a thousand times,
And enter a thousand hells...
Wasted wedding bells...

My heart pinned against your knife...

And...

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If I could take back
What we didn't share
The dance in your honor
With everyone there

I would have paid it in gold
To drink you all in
But one...

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I remember a friend

I remember a dear friend, among a host;
A friendship with which I could boast
Among colleagues our friendship was the toast
And our story...

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The Grief of Gaziantep.

Hotter than a Dragon’s kiss, 
the seas boil under saffron sun.
Tiny thrumming mosquitoes zone on sweating, caramac skin,
Customer entertainment...hanging from shop fronts,
nine...

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There was a fire burning in New York that day,  
But the heat was felt as far as California. 
Everyone cried.

 If only that...

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