Mispah You are not here. Flat granite marks the place. Your smile, your grace Permeates this space. Flowers and prayers, I bring To ease my suffering. Silently, inwardly, I weep. My pain runs deep. Time and space do not erase The memories of time and place. You were my universe. (Tom Fenning) 04/30/2000 Rating 3.00 [...]
To Love Someone (A Sonnet)
To love someone, to truly care To worship every lock of their hair To see those eyes and pure skin, feel deep emotions stir within To have, to hold, love and embrace, feel your respect will not be misplaced To feel the joy you have with each other To be as one, now you’re are [...]
THE MANSION IN MEMORY LANE
(1)Young Tom visited his great aunt, until he was ten years old, And soon after his next birthday, her old mansion would be sold, Since she died, and he would miss them both, as nine years changed the date. He completed school, did two years work, and started college late. (2)At the end of his [...]
NIGHTFALL IN MEDLOW BATH
(1)My first Blue Mountains journeys were on Sydney’s country trains, With scenery improving, once I’d gone past Emu Plains. I did not know the passengers around me, but perhaps one Might care to play a card game, since we’d only come to Lapstone (2)I closed my vintage fiction novel fast. So I could then look, [...]
CABARET OF THE CLOUDS
Soft footsteps walk through streets near school, Past yesterday’s townhouses. In each nostalgic molecule Is something, which arouses. Old lessons learned so long ago (Viola, drums or trigon) Resurface, just enough to know: Those tunes aren’t fully bygone. A new sound crashes near the bay, And shakes the stone rotunda. The sky shows nature’s cabaret, [...]
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