Written By Sparrows Mother

To One I Love

When we first met just casually
Your handshake firm and strong
It awakened that spark in me
That I thought was dead so long

Two eyes so understandingly
Looking quietly into mine
Saying try to be happy again
Let your love be with mine
Before the ends of time

To ease your heart of pain
We parted for a little while
This did not break the tie
As when I came back again

Another life was nigh
One night we walked away from town
The street lights and the crowds
To a little bridge across a stream
We stood in moonlight pale

As there it was my heart so full
I told you I loved you so
I could not keep the tears from you
As something urged me on

Though you said that love could not be
I knew that we were strong
With bursting heart I gazed far away
Prayers to the one above

The moon and stars seemed brighter
As you answered of my love
My heart was so much lighter now
As “I love you” brought a smile
Through my tears of feelings so

Now that the barriers were broken
This solitude would go
I‘ll always be contented now
When waiting patiently for you

Knowing that you share my happiness
I thought could never be
This means the entire world to me
To hold your hand and feel you near

Was to me just a spot of heaven.
That one day that we would share
Since we have shared our love as this
Then let it never be

For you to say in your own world
That you are not good enough for me
We cannot plan our lives it’s true
But love was kept for you and me
As we journey on

V. B. Howard

A quiet time

Written by Sparrow

I needed rest,
for my thoughts,
had gone astray.
A walk in the woods

would quell my fears
There I am one
There I drift
the quiet engulfs me

calming my soul
Legs become vague
Then are gone

Floating with the breeze
I touch the leaves
yet they remain unmoved
It is my way

I see the drift
of problems dismissed
then peace descends

I wonder should I join
the rat race out there
it is a part of me
I drift on toward me
joining once again

the things that make me
The loss of being free
is to be alive
in a physicality

Ian T

Written by Sparrows Son

Young waters

As young we see an ocean deep
Waves that rise far above untouched by reason
Currents so strong pushing us again to the shallows
These we touch and feel giving us reason for a while

The waves and currents are what we seek
To understand how to be
We enter the outer waves not knowing
The direction becomes unseen

We are mere pieces of driftwood
Floating where we should not be
Wanting so much to understand
There are moments in life given, allowing us to see

The reasons and the knowledge to be
Wander into the sea walking, as we know how
Then we may begin to learn

Richard

Unmarked
Written by Sparrows Grand Daughter

Here lies someone
absent be thy name
and November comes
their job is done
indeed they are in heaven.

Who are you?
I wish to thank you for all you have done
for the place you have left for me
by leaving yourself

What is your name?
Are you the weeds that live
where you once lay?
The courage in the dandelion
or the strength in the grass?
I’m sure you get visitors.

The birds all sing their thanks
the mice play where you once fought
over trenches, rabbits dance.
Crickets chirp where the bugle blew
all of it of course, for you.

How old were you?
When you joined the fight?
When your friends first fell?
When you did too?

Did any family come looking for you?
I dare not move the weeds
for they are a part of you
I did leave a seed among them
for hopes it will join them too.

Poppies grew
stained with blood
Eternal sleep in meaning
Reflected in its hue
Rest in peace.

Purple Hobbit