Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts

Monday, September 12, 2011

Reflections

Yesterday afternoon, my wife and I went over to the old family farm house. It was the first time we were there since it was completely cleaned out after the passing of my dad earlier this spring. It was a time of remembering what was and what will be no more. Below is a poem I wrote expressing some of my continuing emotions from that visit.


Yesterday, a house bustling
A home filled with warmth
Kids filling the air with laughter
Home grown meals full of tantalizing aromas

Today, a house empty, forlorn
Silent, barren, crumbling
A large stump decaying
A time lost forever

A time of grief
Missing what used to be
Knowing what was
Is all but gone

Yet knowing
We who remain
Have what is important
Love that thrives above circumstance

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Dawn Arises


Dawn arises
A clean slate
A path prepared
A road to choose

A blur of unknowns
A certainty of uncertainty
Influxes of hard cold realities
A winter unwanted

But in the stillness
A whisper of a new morning
A morning still coming
When hope reigns
And all is well