20 Poems by Tom Crider

Selected Poems by Tom Crider

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grief

  • For A Sad Child

    I’m sad about it too, my dear,and I promise you in this poem there will beno dead squirrels on the road. In here you’ll see them leapinghappily from tree to tree. And look —a turtle in the middleof that road is going to make it to the greenon the other side. Drivers are stopping their… Read more

  • PTSD

    Don’t we all have it?Or something like it? I mean, hasn’t a bomb everblown your life apart? Or taken someone close to you? I’m asking you, doesn’t the sky fallon each of us? Aren’t we all rowinga sinking boat? But you say your painis greater than mine. And I say, that may be, so why… Read more

  • Cold Comfort

    The sun is nowhere to be seenand an icy wind is slicing throughleafless trees. An old friend has diedand another is trying to hold onto his once brilliant mind. In warmer weather I often meet turtlesI know on this path, now coveredwith snow. Winter doesn’t matter muchto us anymore. Our Stonehenge folks,who, like us, were… Read more

  • Grief Poem #6

    I dream I’ve just walked upa steep sand dune when I see her on the beachtossing a multicolored ball back and forth with friends.My heart sings! I walk along the water’s edgeand there she is again. I go to her and ask,How did you survive? She smiles andshakes her head. Tears of joy—It’s true, she’s… Read more

  • Dog Joy

    Our little houndloves to nose the ground, sniffing grass and leaveswhere aroma symphonies sing to him. So today,parked at the store his old brown eyes begto leave the car. Each stone, leaf, weedhe meets is new as he pushes hisgray muzzle through savoring the delightsof his much shorter life. We return to the carwhere I… Read more