Tuesday, November 14, 2017

TREASURED READERS of POETRY

A warm HELLO to you, treasured readers.

This will be my last posting on this poems blog. I thank you for your interest and participation. I want to introduce you to my new writing home. Go to: 
http://scbwords.com. 

This new site will gradually contain my written and published material, including all or portions of...
-Poems
-Essays
-Short Stories
-Boatyard Tales
-Published Books & sources for them. 

Please visit the site and take a look at the contents as well as the blog there, which I will update regularly. As always, your comments are invited and welcome

Steve Brandt                             (Steven C. Brandt)

http://scbwords.com

Tuesday, March 28, 2017

AMORE: CAREGIVER'S LAMENT



Caregivers Lament

There’s death; there’s also an extended half-death
that magnifies a caregiver’s pre-grief pain
as a loved one endures, deterioration of the brain.

Day after week after month I saw her life ebb,
one by one bodily functions slipped away.
I knew they wouldn’t return on some other day.

Both trapped, were we, on a one-way street,
daylight fading as it surrendered to black.
Doctors counseled, there’s no turning back.

Anxiety had become my constant shadow
for I had begun to die, too.
In all directions, I sought answers: What can I do?

Worry about each day’s agenda dogged me
like a puppy pulling the leg of my pants;
any thoughts of tomorrows, squirmed with can’ts.

                       *    *    *
Time has passed and my beloved is gone;
I have tried to re-build, to move along…
but I hear mostly sounds, seldom songs.

Copyright © 2017 by Steven C. Brandt
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Friday, March 10, 2017

NATURE: TAHOE MORNING


Tahoe Morning

Bedroom still dark, sun yet unseen
shall I get up, or go back to sleep.
To my window I stretch to peek
beyond my Truckee Gorge so steep

My blurry eyes, above evergreens see
sunrays blasting the Sierra’s peaks.
Across my face a grin creeps
I will return to sleep

                Copyright © 2017 by Steven C. Brandt. All rights reserved.

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