Losing Grandparents Poems

Inquiring of my grandparents to explain love,
Teasing grandpa said, "Togetherness alone pays."

I asked him, what's kept you together all these years?
"Tethers do not work, the...

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Spring’s fading flowers
Worn down rocks on riverbeds
Trees losing their leaves

Is this growing old?
Is this what it is to age?
Not if you get there…

Spring’s perennials
The rivers...

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Tyrants Walk 

What shall I feed my children? 
The garden is empty, 
the plants have been pulled up. 
The dog, we ate already. 
There are...

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The History of Grown Children

When we are kids, 
we are told of God. 
It is easy to accept, 
a great Father in Heaven. 
No questions...

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Careful

What our mouth says, 
can take down whole 
lifetimes of dreams, 
topple possibilities, 
and short change
the faith of 
true miracles. 

Somehow we think, 
because we...

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Chores

I must get up today. 
I will need to open my eyes, stretch, yawn and move. 
My feet will need to hit the floor first....

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DUNKING ONE'S BISCUIT  . . . 

Dunking one’s biscuit is more than a flippin’ skilled art
When getting it to one’s mouth without it falling...

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Time has a strange way of sliding by silently,when you are not watching,
Next thing you know it is a new year,that you have to survive...

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Everyone flies
I’m still left behind
Scared to death
I’m losing my mind.

Sitting on a chair
Counting white hairs
Realized I’m too old
But I just don’t care.

I see the beauty
A...

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You are one of the people whom I admire the most,
 I always think to send u in Heaven a post;
 Your absence pierces the...

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