‘Tis a fearful thing To love What death can touch. To love, to hope, to dream, And oh, to lose. A thing for fools, this, Love, But a holy thing, To love what death can touch. For your life has lived in me; Your laugh once lifted me; Your word was a gift to me. […]

I absolutely love this poem about cherished friendship using the representation of our material and spiritual worlds: “I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell […]

Real Mothers don’t eat quiche; They don’t have time to make it. Real Mothers know that their kitchen utensils Are probably in the sandbox. Real Mothers often have sticky floors, Filthy ovens and happy kids. Real Mothers know that dried play dough Doesn’t come out of carpets. Real Mothers don’t want to know what The […]

Mommy, don’t cry, ’cause God is holding my hand and telling me everything is OK. Mommy, God said that I will never want for anything and I will still feel your love all the way up here. Mommy, you should see me, I am running and playing with God’s other children. Mommy, guess who helps […]

From you have I been absent in the spring, When proud-pied April, dressed in all his trim, Hath put a spirit of youth in everything, That heavy Saturn laughed and leaped with him, Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odor and in hue, Could make me any […]

These I, singing in spring, collect for lovers, (For who but I should understand lovers and all their sorrow and joy? And who but I should be the poet of comrades?) Collecting I traverse the garden the world, but soon I pass the gates, Now along the pond-side, now wading in a little, fearing not […]

These pools that, though in forests, still reflect The total sky almost without defect, And like the flowers beside them, chill and shiver, Will like the flowers beside them soon be gone, And yet not out by any brook or river, But up by roots to bring dark foliage on. The trees that have it […]

God saw you getting tired, When a cure was not to be. So He wrapped his arms around you, and whispered, “Come to me.” You didn’t deserve what you went through, So He gave you rest. God’s garden must be beautiful, He only takes the best. And when I saw you sleeping, So peaceful and […]

With flowing tears, dear cherished one, We lay thee with the dead; And flowers, which thou didst love so well, Shall wave above thy head. Sweet emblems of thy dearer self, They find a wintry tomb; And at the south wind’s gentle touch, Spring forth to life and bloom. Thus, when the sun of righteousness […]

We little knew that morning that God was going to call your name, In life we loved you dearly; in death we do the same. It broke our hearts to lose you, you did not go alone. For part of us went with you, the day God called you home. You left us peaceful memories, […]