Funeral Yellow Poems

The yellow rose is filled with sunshine and joy,  
she says welcome back or good luck.  


The red rose tells a story of...

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Autumn, the present season
Changes of cadences and colors
It's a very charming time
Which only lies in errors.

The leaves are no longer green
Except those of the everlasting...

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A rose named Brighton 
For your funeral flowers
A stunning golden yellow hue
The place you were born Son
But now sadly gone Son
This yellow rose so...

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This note is composed
just before 
the funeral of summer.
Their dry throats give 
this music offering
to the rainy clouds.

Once
monsoon had spread them
in the paddy fields 
and...

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“Yellow”

I pump the liquid
soap in the bathroom
How Sickeningly sweet it is
and although now it’s gone
I will carry it with me
as I drift off…..

Yellow
is the smell...

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Silver box filled with madrigals
Winter song upon her heart
One single Orchid in her hand
Flower of bitter sadness
Panting for what is lost

Eyes blind in the darkness
Seeing...

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It was a funeral of dead flowers.
A silent and solemn ritual it was,
The wordlessness was not meant to strike
A figurative note. Make no mistake!
It was...

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I had only just begun to understand 
the meaning of death when my uncle died.
Before him, death was something that
happened to family members of which
I...

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