Robert Funderburk

beyond seasons

The leaves of autumn’s

frosty winds,

red and gold and rust,

draw more beauty

from death

than sunlight

and gentle rain

on summer trees

could ever offer.

And this solitary pilgrim,

captured by autumn’s

blaze of color, when

he takes his final

woodland walk,

what then?

He lifts from this

tabernacle of

of earthly shadow,

this life of vapor

and dust, to live

beyond the stars

and shine in the endless

fields of Heaven.

~originally published in Halcyon Days, Issue 15 ~

beauty for ashes

Darkness in the form of pain

Defined my broken world of

Endless, mourning days

Dry and empty nights

Gradually in that hostile dark

A still, soft light began to bloom

In the face of one woman

Reborn in Christ, fearless, she

Consumed the darkness and

Desiccation

An unspeakable joy was born from

The ashes of my world

~ originally published in Spirit Fire Review ~ 

Born by coal oil lamplight in our home near Liberty, Mississippi, graduated from Louisiana State University in 1965, served as SSgt in USAFR from 1965-1971, Robert Funderburk lives with his wife, Barbara, where they enjoy the peace of country living on fifty acres of wilderness in Olive Branch, Louisiana.