Pictures of my cousin Gary Reed at hospice in Houston, Texas
Picasa album includes 7 photos and two short videos
Easter at the Mill's - Willow Park Texas
Picasa album of baby, loving uncles and cousins, and a real papa owl
Pictures of Glenn and Genie's Louisiana Trek - February 2012
Links to Picasa web albums (photos) of their trip and information about how to view the albums
Bluebonnet Trail Pictures
Picasa Web Album of Bluebonnet Trail Pictures
Bluebonnets
By Glenn Currier
Your scent is so heady
I am intoxicated
in the blue Caribbean
of your balmy essence.
Barbed wire
strung on cedar posts
cannot keep me
from falling into your sweet embrace. |
I cannot take you.
You take me
eyes first then my nose
your breath caresses my arms.
Who knew that Texas
with its rough and rocky terrain
could give birth
to such gentle exquisite beings?
You are the Mona Lisa
your artful allure
draws onlookers
admirers of your mystery.
We cannot stay away
from your flowering.
Your spring
brings us
to life.
"Bluebonnets," Copyright © 2012 by Glenn Currier |
Michael
By Glenn Currier
Some get degrees to teach,
learn to hurl words in fancy speech,
but the lessons he taught
could never be bought.
From Michael we learned how to live
to simply love and help and give
he taught us to be family and friend
a neighbor on whom to depend.
With little effort and no guile
he taught us to go the extra mile
to ignore boundaries of age
no enemy or stranger on his stage.
He cherished the joys life brings
but he made no god of things
his truck and home a country tune
feed the cows, mow the fields in June.
Early on he fought to stay alive
taught us in that valiant drive
to cherish life and live it well
before our final knell.
We are blessed that his life's arc
crossed ours in our light and in our dark.
On our souls a gentle mark
the sweet shining life of Michael Clark.
January 4, 2012
This poem is dedicated to my nephew who died January 2. He was just 35 years old. The poem was read at his funeral held in Madisonville, Texas where his parents, Paul and Theresa Clark (Helen's sister and brother-in-law) reside. We already miss Michael and he was universally loved.
Poem, "Michael" with pictures pdf file might take a while to download
5th Anniversary of November 25, 2006 Durand Reunion coming up
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