Friday 27 October 2017

Flickers of Flame




Flickers of Flame
We are the brave lost souls
Our lives taken violently
By mortar shell and grenade
Too soon we had
To leave this world

To you we pass the torch
The last flicker of flame
Representing eternal hope
For peace and tranquility
In this lovely world

Keep the flame
Alive and burning
And hope will not
Be lost

© Phil Renaud 2017
Stock photo: ©dogstock 

Flame of the Unknown Soldier, Arc de Triomphe, Paris France 

40's What and Where

40’s What and Where

Hey Phil, now you’re forty
Bet you’d like to trade places with your sister “Shorty”

“What day is this?”, you can’t remember?
No, it’s not the month of September!

What’s that, you can’t hear me!
No, I didn’t say I had to pee!

Where are you going, that’s not your car!
Oh boy, this doesn’t look good so far!

What are you doing? You can’t go there!
You’re supposed to go to the bathroom so people won’t stare!

Oh, oh Pat you’d better come here,
Somethings wrong with Phil I fear.

It’s all because of his age you say!
And it only gets worse with each passing day!

Well Phil, I’ll wish you Happy Birthday anyways.
Even though you’ll forget in a few days.

I’m sending you a kiss, ok honey!
Oh, no Pat tell him I didn’t say money!

© Michelle Renaud-Toupin 2017

Used by permission

Halloween

Halloween
Haunted hijinks on
All Hallows Eve
Leads to
Lurid laughter
Or ominous
Wailing wraiths
Eeriness ensues
Everywhere encapsulating a
Nightmarish night


© Phil Renaud 2017

All Hallows Eve


Thursday 12 October 2017

Giving Thanks

Giving Thanks
Thank you for my life
And my beautiful wife

Thank you for my job
And my friend Bob

Thank you for the food I eat
It’s a wonderful treat

Thank you for my Mom and Dad
There’re gone now and I am sad

Thank you for my family
We are so mannerly

Thank you for this glorious day
Hurray

Thank you Lord for everything
To you I cling
Offering thanks and praise
For all my days


© Phil Renaud 2017