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.