Poems and Stories

Thursday, September 12, 2024

The Maine House - for Red & Martha - 2013

 It is not fair

That you are not here

I talk to the walls

As if you will appear.


The stove is off,

Nothings burning.

I miss the smoke

Pyromaniac’s yearning.


The yard is quiet

Red’s not whacking

Far too quiet,

Something is lacking.


No greeting as I arrive

Martha is gone

But the old Maine house

Is still alive.


Alive and waiting

For you all to appear

To lift a glass

And shed a tear.

They loved  "you all"

And held you dear

They missed you both

When you weren’t here.


The Maine House waits

For the family now

Red and Martha’s family

As fate will allow.


We will all come back

To the house we love

As Red and Martha smile

Happy at peace up above.


We will tell the stories

From our different views

Each of us victims

of The Maine House, Our muse.



Tom – written first on July 28,2013

re-written – September 12, 2024

still true.


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