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FOR THOSE LOVED AND GONE Strangely configured My parents' old furniture - Continuity (13/12/2013 looking around my room) DECEMBER 2013 ... No more blue snow Next to people who loved him Our fox chose to die (A melancholy month - I had to cut down our old Ceanothus; and the fox I used to watch running at night curled up under our Fuschia bush by the lounge wall and left this world without a sound.) SENRYU FOR ZACH 'Zach's back!' Joyous the Conference of Star-Fathers We cannot attend THE TENOR OF MY LIFE ... Old hands breaking the Last of the Ospringe bayleaves Pavarotti died. (6/9/07) LOCKERBIE Sidereal Mars - My splitting head, the bombed plane, Your tears on my phone ROYAL MARINES BOMB Stretchers passing me; Young blood runs with mine in a Theatre of war M2 COACH CRASH American friends Hang in the Kentish air Healers are coming NINE/ELEVEN-TWELVE Eleven a.m. Mourning yesterday, today stops I have just started .......................................................................................................... STATHAMS' M6 TRAGEDY Under the carnage A front page ad for the car Soon closing my road (Weekly News Thursday October 23rd 2008) The grief of children Heart-breaking.The naked trees. The wreaths. The black cars. (The Funeral, November 4th 2008-Our Lady Star of the Sea-Noon) The spirits who made These bodies beautiful are flown We weep over bone (November 6th 2008) ............................................................................................................................... FATHER FRANK Led to the last seat I stood by your side; your grave Received my red rose. JANET, DEPARTED No-one remembered It was my fun friend who died - I have stopped singing MY DEAD POET We walked, and smiled... In Folkestone tunnel my husband Picked up your pieces. Senryu for Nancy Rewind time - the friend Distraught, steps, the broken head - God, give back Nancy 99 No telegram - Among the ashes Only her plastic smile |