by Anne-Marie Spittle | Dec 7, 2006 | Poetry
The pain is here While you are not The wind echoes in the empty places While the coyote laughs Dancing in the moonlight At my lack of understanding I know that one day we will meet again Where the snow is crisp The winds don’t chill Where the sunshine warms Not beats...
by Anne-Marie Spittle | Jul 17, 2006 | Poetry
See us! We are not just pictures Pieces of a tableau Or parts of a mosaic To make you weep We lived and breathed Held children in our arms Hugged family before we left And many only have that memory Think only of us as we were Not this two dimensional nothingness That...
by Anne-Marie Spittle | Jul 17, 2006 | Poetry
Small hands grasp mine Pudgey fingers soft Like cotton balls in silk For a moment I have returned To a past I wished had never ended Now a sodden handkerchief lies in my hands Guns fired Empty words floated towards me Lifelessness overpowers me To soon you’re gone To...
by Anne-Marie Spittle | May 19, 2006 | Poetry
You were brought home On the wings of a metal angel To your body’s final resting place No fanfares marked your return Only the booming pain in our hearts That you were no longer ours God had taken you to join His celestial forces Our countries flag draped you As my...
by Anne-Marie Spittle | Jan 1, 2006 | Poetry
The whining rise awakens us from dreams of better times Zombies in RAF uniforms follow the dimming light to outside Where the dark leviathans of the empirical kingdom lie in wait Their charioteers take their seat and gee up their horses While engineering creatures run...