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Written about 2 or 3 years before i knew the truth...
My son Colton Ross Barrera
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has been missing since Sept. 26, 2008.
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I bet you can imagine how many
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That can't feel good, there's nothing good about it, but that has got to be a secret that keeps them in fear. The longer they holds it, the more it eats them. That's natures law.
ME: gmorn i'm sore but will try walking today
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FRIEND: What u sore from?
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ME: my whole body aches
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Closure doesn't Exist
i find myself agonizing about how my son
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or rather his physical blood skin organs and bones
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have
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Grief is a Flammable Substance
No one told me
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so i'm telling you
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i expected grief to feel like sadness
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but i wasnt told that
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To Do List
to fall in love and
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to have kinky sex
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to have fun picking out produce together at the grocery st
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Soundtrack
first musical memory
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playing Mary Poppins
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over and over on my portable suitcase
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phonograph
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life changing afternoon of January
In the middle of folding laundry one afternoon
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thinking this might not be a big deal
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but then ag
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The Empty Generation
conceived to the rhythms of Woodstock
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weaned on Watergate
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raised on Trickle-Down Reaganomics
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o
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yearly candle light vigils
my purpose of those yearly vigils
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was primarily
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as an effort for Colton
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to hear
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through the
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Guess What, Love You, Chicken Butt
i am just a mom deeply missing my son,
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the real boy,
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not the story i've repeated about him too m
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