Grandpa

Dad by Judy Burnette

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I feel so lost and empty. I can only search for poems to express how I feel. This is a beautiful one I found and have replaced “Dad” with “Papa”. I miss you so much, Papa!
Papa…so many images come to [...]

My father is gone

Funeral Blues
by W. H. Auden (1907-1973)
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with the juicy bone.
Silence the pianos and, with muffled drum,
Bring out the coffin. Let the mourners come.
Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling in the sky the message: “He is dead!”
Put crepe bows around the white necks of the public [...]