Funeral Flower Poems

she told me she wanted her flowers
while she was still alive and well

her children collected bouquets, offerings
meant for her finicky nose to smell

she told me...

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On the base of a flower vase,
that's where you left her last blood trace:
A reminder of your fresh kill;
your Valentine's day gruesome chill.

Caked blood now...

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Painted daisies, baby's breath beside roses
Chrysanthemums, carnations beside roses
Red roses beside pink roses

Still, Rose is gone; Petals fresh, ... dried, and crushed.
Dawn and dusk, and...

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Sunflowers like smiling balloons,
round and robust, sounds
of the stem bobbing like a string
tied not to the past but to the soons.

Lost before noon, the duct
let...

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the flowers were gorgeous
yellows pinks oranges
with a pop of white and a sliver of green
something mother would have loved
if they had given it to her...

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A collection of flowers-House becomes a funeral home...

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Throughout my life dad and I have done many things together
graduating from Crayola, fishing and wiffleball
to tune-ups, casinos and funerals.

After one particularly salty funeral:
Dad and...

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  After poor old Mortimer was dead

    by his grave ~ a flowerbed...

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The poetry of the sapphire in your stirring eye's
oceanic grace,
a strand of pearls on your regal neck of a
soft swan,
on a lake of symphonic dreams...

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A flower at the budding stage which
Will never now reach full bloom,
This flower’s potential left unfurled, 
A flower cut much too soon....

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For a grieving mother, pain goes the extra mile, it wilts her soul and destroys her smile. 

A burden so heavy as she carries that...

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GP

She ran away when 
She was 13 years old
Nobody filed a 
Missing person report

Got in with a driver
All the things that he did
Made her convict...

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2nd Elergy For Auntie Betty Akinyi Oyugi.
Life is scattered.
By Juno Byron(Junior).

Life is a balloon
Inflated full
A'n given to a baboon
Wherefore? though white as wool

Life is a...

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Let destiny create a distance... 
Firestorm of roses will set an inferno...
Arrow goading the scented sceneries. 

Maniac in love, heartlands of homophiles.
Lovely heart cradled in...

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January pouring
flower-adorned umbrella
during funeral


Written: September 25, 2021...

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