Arbuthnot Poems - Poems about Arbuthnot

...To the memory of my Great great great Grandmother Esther Louise Arbuthnot SUNDAY DINNER ON THE FARM Gramma's cookin now, so set a spell and you can bet we'll have her Sunday best before the setti......Read the rest...

...TO LOVE TOO LATE Some time ago, when I was hot and young and thinking older than my meager years, the know it all, on which my life was hung and openly displayed to all my peers, I played life......Read the rest...

...LAS NAVES DE MEDERA (Wooden Ships) They wanted ships. What they got was wooden shells not a farthing from the Crown for these floating buckets. Six thousand corks, hastily riveted into the kee......Read the rest...

...THE HOMECOMING Our need to fade, be yesterday dry up and then just blow away, 'tis but to go where all belong where life won't have the timing wrong. our need to leave this world behind to go......Read the rest...

...THE BATTLE OF SOUTH CHICAGO The freeze has brought them to a winter night they've made themselves, forgetting what is right, and though they see their children cry there's not a one to reason why......Read the rest...

...VENUS RISING On the levee, that warm summer day, there you were, rising from the sea, daughter of my night, and in your way, the comforter of what a night can be. My Venus rising, you, the lig......Read the rest...

...CIL MAOLCHEADAIR (Kilmalkedar) On such an Irish spring and drizzle morn, she wandered through the graveyard, looking for the Celtic dream from which her past was born, and every sight brought h......Read the rest...

...Visit To Auschwitz I wish to hear the names long laid to rest forgotten in their time, an empty prayer, who wanted nothing more, through life's long quest than just to know some good's alive some......Read the rest...

...ULYSSES! AWAKE! Are you not just as much an oar as was the wind that fills misguided sails? Your Ship! Your chart! Your shooting of the stars! Your warriors sick for home you've led them a......Read the rest...

...CROSS MY HEART AND HOPE TO DIE Black Lady, I have loved you, all of my life, I've loved you, some things won't change and they're what nobody sees. I feel the wind, it's blowing, where I am alwa......Read the rest...

...TURNING IT LOOSE I'll tell you it's no simple thing, this thing I have to say. The time has come, so bear me out, there is no other way. I never thought I'd be someone to hurt someone like yo......Read the rest...

...LONGHAIRED GIRL I'd like to take you. Stay with me, and let me feel your flowing hair, and look into your flashing eyes to see if love just might be there; to feel you pressing in the night wit......Read the rest...

...HOOTERS GIRLS Sherry I love the shine in your eyes you're just the trimming for burgers and fries, old men pretending not to watch you, dreaming of things they shouldn't do. I know Maria, your......Read the rest...

...THE BOMBING OF DRESDEN-- MONSIEUR L'VAMPYRE - There was a night, I still recall it now, as winters cold had turned to soft and mild, and gave us hope, that time would still allow the passing ......Read the rest...

...HEAVENS TREASURES When it's my time I welcome Heaven's call as surely as I've lived the best I could believing as I do, and that is all that Jesus said, who'll make His promise good; I can not......Read the rest...