Your skin on my pillow My tears on your breast Your child in my arms My love for your child Your eyes lost in mine My eyes lost in your soulYour laughter in my heart My heart in your lifeYour...
loss
Goodbye Dixie
"A poem of what was and will never be."
You were the prettiest face,had the voice of an angel.Your laugh lit up the day, your smile owned my heart. When first I saw you, hypnotized in your grace, lost in your big blue eyes, I knew it would be...
Today… Innocence lost
"The loss and pain in my heart"
Today my heart broke It splintered into a million pieces I hold in my arms The innocence lost I mourn all that you could have been All that you will not be For today, you live in my heartIn the depths of...
In my dreams she exists and she is truly realThen I wakeIn a daze.Someday I will realize she stopped being thereWhen she leftIn a mist.But my mind is a frangible substance that willBreak into Tiny bits.While sustaining my visions of what...
A Goodbye
"for the passing of the wonderful Robin Williams"
Trembling leaf falls, As all must who live or die. A blessed life ends, and (passing through the needles eye) It is one with the ocean, And the stars in the sky. Suddenly, time too tall For the glorious loss,...
Last night I awoke, enshrouded within cedar and pine, burnt and smoky, covered with soot and ashes. Wiped the dust out of my eyes, and found stuck in it a grain of icy moonlight. The only light that shone, gone...
The Eternal Goodbye
"Commemorating the Centenary of the outbreak of WWI"
Losing you was not a part of my plan, Not the day the war broke out, Nor any day following it, Soon though, It became painful and a real blow that I was struck with. We met on the summers...
“You can't save her Paul. You need to understand this. No matter how much you want it to happen, no matter how hard you try to make it happen, you can't stop it. Clara can't be brought back. This is...
He sits and waits
"An old man remembering young love..."
He sits and waits In the doorway of the cafe Shaded from the heat of the summer sun. His chin hunched upon his stick, He sits and waits And he looks, Watching beautiful young couples passing by, Arm in arm,...