Poems About: JANUARY

Admitted to the hospital again.
The second bout of pneumocystis back
In January almost killed him; then,
He'd sworn to us he'd die at home.He baked read more »

A winter of words falls over me
Like night - All I can speak
Is snow to whirl and drift The winter quarters of my heart
Withdraw from challenges of warmth read more »

He was nineteen on that cold January day
When he was drafted and was taken away
Infantry training made him into a rock hard man
Then a ship waited to take him to a far away land read more »

I wake up in the midst of night
To distant music of delight
Connubial strains of beauty whole
Pervade the dark and touch my soul read more »

Red reflections
from songs
by Billie
before the empty stairs. read more »