A collection of various poems I have written over the years
3/21/25
I fixed my father’s fence today
sunken low and lame out there
Slowly rotting where it lay
Turned to dust for needed care
But that, dear mother you’d not dare
You kept his whole life’s memory
Ingrained within the posts out there
Laid bare to air with emery
The farm’s sole broke accessory
It long adorned the fields
Dreams of olden reverie
That fed upon its yield
his memory is not repealed
uprooted aside or lain
Forgotten as a slain man’s shield
That failed to protect domain
To keep his memory was sane
On that we can agree
the method to preserve or change
we differ, you and me
For you I think the object key
Entrenched by his own hand
The same that felled that mighty tree
And shaped it, all one man
But i see the intent, his plan
To build for us a home
A bastion’s cornerstone began
Not monumental bones
So I cut down new trees alone
In spring began repairs
My wife helped get the seeds all sown
Death’s bite still in the air
Through summer labored this affair
With you fresh on my mind
my actions I know you’d not care
But intentions quite aligned
The fall admired this new line
you kept untouched for dad
Whose memory for which you pined
Whose sight brought feelings sad
Though I think you’ll agree he’s glad
To see his family safe
Protected by ideas he had
To put that fence in place
To make you happy, just in case
I carved his name in the post
So all the people here emplaced
Know who’s to thank the most.
1/16/2025
An eternity has passed
An eternity
Awaits me further
Wilting in my bed
I wait
For signals that you are near
But you grow
Ever colder
Yet I wait
Praying for you
To arrive swiftly
Would stave off death
Waiting in the trees
That grow
Around me but distant.
I wait
Starving
Watching
Feeling the light fade
I know my time
But this was too-
Wait. Nevermind.
The delivery driver is here.