The Late Swallow - by
Leave, leave your well-loved nest,
/ Late swallow, and fly away.
/ Here is no rest
/ For hollowing heart and wearying wing.
/ Your comrades all have…
Occasion: For Funerals
Song - by
End is in beginning;
/ And in beginning end:
/ Death is not loss, nor life winning;
/ But each and to each is friend.
/
/ The hands…
Consolation - by
Though he that ever kind and true
/ Kept stoutly step by step with you
/ Your whole long gusty lifetime through,
/ Be gone awhile…
The Bird that was Trapped has Flown - by
in memoriam Vicky Patterson
/
/ The bird that was trapped has flown
/ The sky that was grey is blue
/ The bone that was dead…
Dignity - by
These young birches
/ shriek green laughter up the hill
/ billow on billow. They
/ stop as he enters. He
/ carries his promised absence
/ carefully and yes
/ he…
Epitaph on my own Friend - by
An honest man here lies at rest,
/ As e’er God with His image blest:
/ The friend of man, the friend of…
Winged Skye - by
When this body comes to die,
/ Set me on the headland high,
/ Where sun and rain go marching by,
/ Raven lord of wave…
Requiem - by
Under the wide and starry sky,
/ Dig the grave and let me die.
/ Glad did I live and gladly die,
/ …
Departure and Departure and … - by
Someone is waving a white handkerchief
/ from the train as it pulls out with a white
/ plume from the station and rumbles…
Praise of a Man - by
He went through a company like a lamplighter –
/ see the dull minds, one after another,
/ begin to glow, to shed
/ a beneficent…