Standing before stones
The spirit groans
For unspoken words
Songs from bluebirds
Winter's barren hallow
Blossoms into spring's fairy swallow
Taps plays and twenty-one guns fire
Memories of the funeral pyre
Flanders' field bleed red
For all the uneaten bread
One of Minnesota's daughters
A globe trotter
Kindness gowned
Hope crowned
Ravens crow
As wild dandelions grow
Under heaven's snow
Cowboy boots and hardwood floors
Hands held across the shores
Until we meet again on distant moors.
By Shannon McKemie, M.A.
11-11-2015
Dedicated to my cousin, Margie Brown