Memorial Day
Weekend 
Speckled white and ash
Contrast green and soldiers seen
In uniform past.
CMM © 2021
Birthday
A candle on her favorite food
Lit on this her 10th year passing
I sit and wonder in the quiet moment
No birthday song to wish a lasting
Wishes for the future gone
As the days have passed quickly
And you are not here to belong
At this table of celebration
Yet it is for you and only you
Leaving loved ones with their own
deliberation.
©️. CMM 2021
Forgotten
Gray rustic canon
Hangs over winter’s river
Few could tell you why.
Many once gathered to fight
Forgotten, now a bleak sight .
Copyrighted : 2020 CMM
Driving across country from Calf – NC with 130.00 will not be forgotten as long as this song can be played . 😊
Hot Chocolate
Cold evening
Hot chocolate
Remembering
You
Thank you
For being my friend
Even if it had to end
Your friendship
Lives richly in our sharing
Cold evenings
Hot Chocolate
2019 copyright © CMM
Sunset
The sea whispers
Breath comes in and then out
In a distance it sweet roar
Crescendos in a swell
Of soft breeze travels through
I feel tranquilizing sleep
We try to linger in the unknown
We are just too human
So I fall asleep with feelings
Copyrighted: CMM 2019
The Day
It felt as if eternity stopped in one day.
Everyone’s eyes were swollen from tears.
No one was talking, just listening, just praying.
A feeling of loss, and not knowing why.
A prayer for those you could not call.
Confusion as to what to do next.
You wait, you wait to hear, to hope,
To pray… 9/11 a day of eternity.
copyrighted: 2019 CMM
“Joy’s Song”
I remember “All Souls’ Day” with a song I wrote.
Written by: Christine McNeill-Matteson
Produced with Kip Haaheim Music and instrumentalist
vocalist; Jonathan Matteson
Music written by: Daniel Myer
Copyrighted: CMM 2016
