The Turning

Gazing up

gray blue sky

The tingle

of a changing season

Mounds of frozen snow

clinging to life

Six geese

in formation

flying true north

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The Perfect Funeral

Remember near a stream running clear

with grandchildren perched on stones and fallen trees

Pick a red apple October day to celebrate the cool

of the air and watch leaves like boats floating down

Strum Blowing in the Wind to honor

beach bonfires so many years ago.

Send prayers of laughter to the blue sky  

celebrating stories told and yet to tell

Without preaching, lightly toss the atoms

so they drift down waters to the wild unknown

                                                                                   -Joan Ramseyer