CULTURED MOURNING (Por mi familia) In memory of Glen Allen Weeks

To the bleeding like pouring rain

Promised with no shadow of doubt

Tears fill our laughter with hurtful pain

Unraveling in, out, and all about

Since his greatest love was intricately fun

Grief's passion now reflects in our eyes

To slap-box our harmony unswimmingly in the sun

Holding each malleable untold still wondering why

Insisting that we search on, just not for any fool

Yet caution must punctuate our defense this fight

Though we know Almighty God is love and rules

Such futile inequitable connections needing the light

Since no disguise's as angelic as the succulence of life

Once the bleeding stops, not fully paying the price

Valentine Luisa Weeks—2001

SOLSTICE OF MY LIFE

Ever cried rivers?

It's the reason I now sing

Showers of sunshine

To ciphered souls from rainbows

Unsettling to serene.

Valentine Luisa Weeks—2002