Be The Death Of Me Poems - Poems about Be The Death Of Me

Dense stone pins soft grass indicating importance giving gravitas ...Read the rest...

"TO ALL, and to those whom may be among the numbers of 'The Unknown' that my belated brother Kimo [August 26, 1969] may have known," ... by The Poet (Lyrics attuned: "When the Roll Is Called...Read the rest...

Night and day, I have wept, for the lavender lays dead, & my locks have disintegrated, down to the screw. What am I to do? When all hope is lost, except extend my apology, & find another place, to pull me out...Read the rest...

It's gilded in bright colours Like a peacock butterfly; It sparkles in splendour Like a diamond in the sun; When it rests, it rests In confined dank darkness, In a bowel of nightmare With what remains of a...Read the rest...

morning meets a nurse of caring for many years, an aide who's burying some unknown fears, a neighbor's kitten Nova left strewn said--bury in--garden where Pansy's grew-in. life's roads all lives got when life forgot and ought not life's care for lives share ...Read the rest...

What do you see when you see trees? My eyes travel each trunk and branch. With feathered leaves in blowing breeze till the chipper comes with a cranch! Your details shine with luminescence - I eschew detail for the...Read the rest...

Ten. Ten years, I've been scared, fearing the phone's ring. Twenty. Twenty years, I was, learning how goodbye really felt. Thirty. Thirty years, I reached, forty-four days ago. Forty. Forty, my brother was, for fifty-seven days. That's all he got... and that feels like all for me. I'm terrified,...Read the rest...

The darkness, I will not dwell, and the pain shall ebb. Withered in its wake, indelible of mind. Intervals by chance, a surety in life. Grief, the toll of it's permanence....Read the rest...

Abandoned on the road of distant sorrow mile markers bloody from the vagrants it has claimed All names inscribed with crimson warnings on devil written eulogies Their cries entombed within an eastern wind — that blows away the dawn (The Devil’s Highway (666): June, 2002) ...Read the rest...

We go and come We come again and go again ...a ring Like water that ascends ...to return as rain ...to smoke up again... A circle An order My ancestors are back Staring into my soul Through the eyeballs Of...Read the rest...

("Eye of Storm", original encaustic, 2017) Epiphany I’ve had two major epiphanies in my life, And I figure three is all we really get. So far they are following a pattern Of thesis/antithesis So I assume the third will be some...Read the rest...

She stands at the window, Looking at the children in the meadow, Playing outdoors is a luxury, She’s saddled with drudgery. She feels the world has no place for her, And emancipation is only a blur, She wishes she could hide...Read the rest...

My eyes stare straight, fixated on something in the distance, humming a song that would send chills, if you ever got the chance to listen. A padded cell and a straitjacket, the doctor giving one of his ‘visits,’ his moans...Read the rest...

Get in your room now,” as daddy fashioned a gun. Mom grabbed me and her facial expression was undone, something must be wrong, I ask she looked at me and welts started to run, down we hunkered under the...Read the rest...

It's memorial day Don't forget it's not OK To think it's just a day for you To enjoy a BBQ And have an extra long weekend Forgetting lives lost who defend Your freedom and paid the price With their unselfish sacrifice Keep them...Read the rest...