Flickers of Flame

Flickers of Flame

We are the brave lost souls

Our lives taken violently

By mortar shell and grenade

Too soon we had

To leave this world

To you we pass the torch

The last flicker of flame

Representing eternal hope

For peace and tranquility

In this lovely world

Keep the flame

Alive and burning

And hope will not

Be lost

© Phil Renaud 2017

Stock photo: ©dogstock 

Flame of the Unknown Soldier, Arc de Triomphe, Paris France 

40's What and Where

40’s What and Where

Hey Phil, now you’re forty

Bet you’d like to trade places with your sister “Shorty”

“What day is this?”, you can’t remember?

No, it’s not the month of September!

What’s that, you can’t hear me!

No, I didn’t say I had to pee!

Where are you going, that’s not your car!

Oh boy, this doesn’t look good so far!

What are you doing? You can’t go there!

You’re supposed to go to the bathroom so people won’t stare!

Oh, oh Pat you’d better come here,

Somethings wrong with Phil I fear.

It’s all because of his age you say!

And it only gets worse with each passing day!

Well Phil, I’ll wish you Happy Birthday anyways.

Even though you’ll forget in a few days.

I’m sending you a kiss, ok honey!

Oh, no Pat tell him I didn’t say money!

© Michelle Renaud-Toupin 2017

Used by permission

Halloween

Halloween

Haunted hijinks on

All Hallows Eve

Leads to

Lurid laughter

Or ominous

Wailing wraiths

Eeriness ensues

Everywhere encapsulating a

Nightmarish night

© Phil Renaud 2017

All Hallows Eve

Giving Thanks

Giving Thanks

Thank you for my life

And my beautiful wife

Thank you for my job

And my friend Bob

Thank you for the food I eat

It’s a wonderful treat

Thank you for my Mom and Dad

There’re gone now and I am sad

Thank you for my family

We are so mannerly

Thank you for this glorious day

Hurray

Thank you Lord for everything

To you I cling

Offering thanks and praise

For all my days

© Phil Renaud 2017