My Saddest Day
April 21, 2009 · Filed Under Death Poems, Funeral Poems, In Loving Memory Poems, Memory Poems, Poems of Bereavement · Comment
It all started when in at five past midnight
Now I am lying stiff and cold
Deep in troubled dreamless sleep.
Cotton wool stuffed in my nostrils,
I cannot breathe.
A rag tightening my jaws together,
I cannot protest.
My feet bound together,
Surely there is no escape this time round.
Granny chose they dress me up in my favourite suit,
But this time there [...]
Daring Time
January 5, 2009 · Filed Under Death Poems, Funeral Poems, In Loving Memory Poems, Poems of Bereavement · Comment
You granted me childhood
Allowed me to err
You showed me life
Revealing the secrets
You read my soul
Unwarranted love
*******
You took a path
I could not follow
A right reclaimed
and granted
a thousandfold
*******
Time, re-created,
Is now a gate onto the future
And beyond that gate
Your future has now begun
by Els van den Eynde
Ama Dablam – Mother’s Necklace
January 5, 2009 · Filed Under Death Poems, Funeral Poems, In Loving Memory Poems, Poems of Bereavement · Comment
Mother’s necklace
Evening star
On canyon rim
Orion’s image
In Nepal land
A mountain’s love
Were you, my child
Motionless trees
Stood the sky
On moonlit nights
For you, my child
Horizon your prayer
Waterfall your music
The splendor cathedral
Your life, my child
Ama Dablam, a necklace offered
To me, your flesh and blood
When you said, a day resplendent
Fatality broke your song
- by Els van den Eynde
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