Pause

My father died last week.

I have been and will continue to write a cycle of poems about my family. 

However, please allow me a bit of time to pause and reflect.

Thanks so much for your support and understanding.

Audrey

(aka Poetweetry)

First Born

Anointed

blue ribbon shrine

pristine shoes

Daddy toe waltzes

bedroom sanctum

car keys

genetic guilt

default executor

Last shovelful of dirt

 

Tweeted on Thursday, November 1, 2012 at 4:30 p.m. CT

©2012 by Audrey S. Rivers & Poetweetry

Road Not Taken

Sadly, UR taut noose unravels

Death nigh & memories naught

Girded in uncertainty

U shunned exotic paths,

the only journey to happiness

 

 

Tweeted  Sunday, June 3, 2012 at 6:03 p.m CDT

© 2012 by Audrey S. Rivers and Poetweetry

White Light

Do the dying tally hours

or cast moments into days?

Dwell in vicissitudes

or inconsequential dreams?

Can luminosity pierce grave’s finale?

 

 

Tweeted Saturday, March 17, 2012 at 6:45 pm CST

©2012 by Poetweetry and A. S. Rivers

All Rights Reserved

Bequest

Built UR kitsch dream house

No one allowed on gold carpet

kids & pets confined 2 cellar

30yrs later in hospice

alone in shag carpet reverie

Tweeted on July 12, 2010 at 2:19 a.m.

© 2010 by Poetweetry

All Rights Reserved

Euthanasia #2

For  Min —

You didn’t go gently

I sanctified love 4 suffering

and peace 4 pain.

But U were not ready

2 give away UR last most vital life.

& I am not God

Tweeted:  May 17, 2010 at 10:40 p.m.

© 2010 by Poetweetry

Euthanasia #1

For Kayla —

Lock of fur

Spring puppy breath

Comfort of summer ocean foam

Oak’s intense autumnal canvas

Only UR ashes betray

Winter’s harsh fragility

Tweeted:  May 17, 2010 at 10:30 p.m.

© 2010 by Poetweetry

Apparitions

Ghost of Past:  Guilt

Ghost of Present:  Denial

Ghost of Future:  Regret

Tweeted:  March 3, 2010 at 6:45 p.m.

© 2010 by Poetweetry

Grim Reaper

Death’s too familiar

He follows like stray cats

leaves nose smudges on windows

traces cracks on walls

howls @ my jokes

while I forget 2 cry

Tweeted:  January 20, 2010 at 3:55 p.m.

© 2010 by Poetweetry

Clairvoyance

End the premonitions

disaster intuitions

doom forebodings

God’s cruel omens

Death’s docket

Grant ignorance of the future

& repress the past

Tweeted: December 12, 2009 at 2:31 p.m.

© 2009 by Poetweetry