The Price of Friendship
What price can be put On a friendship? None! Not the measured sum Of life itself. Friends are part Of one’s own self, A fragment Of the greater web That weaves The Universal Truth. A…
Tag: Grief & Loss
Please Write Back
WriteWrite something!Write to tell me you’ll never write again,That I’ll never hear your voice againThat I’m a silly, immature childWrite anything! I’m crying now,Fighting with myselfBecause I don’t have you to fight withAll I have…
Shalott Revisited: A King Arthur Poem
I once met a fine young man Winning in his manners, honest in his speech With ideals that defied the world So broad in their scope, believing in the unseen Clinging to faith, and when…
December Morning Message: A Sestina with an Extra Verse
The sheet metal sky is thin and cold overhead. Like propaganda released from planes, endless leaflets of brittle lace Drop slowly down around me. They weave something like silence. I once had a soul that…
The Only One: A Poem Dedicated to Homeless Veterans
Am I the only one who notices your eyes Cracked open by the war? Young against the pain Spilled out with the grief Dried up in the coming home Dropped to the ground And forgotten…
More than Memory
Is there a day when bruises heal, War's fingerprints cease to reveal A frail survivor left alone, The loneliness that I now feel? - And is this grieving all my own, Locked within my skin…