Poems & Selections

If There Are Any Heavens

By E.E. Cummings
if there are any heavens my mother will (all by herself) have
one. It will not be a pansy heaven nor a fragile heaven of lilies-of-the-valley but it will be a heaven of black red roses
my father will be(deep like a rose tall like a rose) standing near my (swaying over her silent) with eyes which are really petals and see nothing with the face of a poet really which is a flower and not a face with hands which whisper This is my beloved my (suddenly in sunlight he will bow, & the whole garden will bow)

Since it falls unto my lot, That I should rise and you should not, I’ll gently rise, and I’ll softly call, “Good night and joy be with you all.”
We miss you now Our hearts are sore, As time goes on, We miss you more, Your loving smile, Your gentle face, No one can fill your Vacant place. Your life was love and labor, Your love for your family true, You did the best for all of us, We will always be, Loving you.
By Anne Bradstreet If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were lov’d by wife, then thee. If ever wife was happy in a man, Compare with me, ye women, if you can. I prize thy love more than whole Mines of gold Or all the riches that the East doth hold. […]
Hush my darlings, hush be still I had to leave you it was God’s will Hush my darlings do not cry For I am standing here right by I have not gone for good you see I am always right here and join for tea But alas you cannot see me and all that I […]