Roger Singer

Winter Graveyard
 
calm
 
a long past road
at the outermost
under slow gray clouds
drifting over a
brown meadow of weeds
 
a solemn place,
sorrow touched,
to cry beside
lost souls,
departed spirits
and buried secrets
 
where suffering lines
of stone markers
speak of the
unforgettable
while remembering
the arithmetic
of life
as it returns
to dust



Afternoon
 
rain
from gray
linen clouds
 
slips from
scattered heights
 
descending quietly
to its end below
 
gathering flat,
reflecting where
it came from
 

Dr. Singer is a Poet Laureate Emeritus of Connecticut, and past president of the Connecticut Shoreline Poetry Chapter, in association with the Connecticut Poetry Society. He has had over 1,500 poems published on the internet, magazines and in books and is a 2017 Pushcart Prize Award Nominee.