Edward "Bobb" Koehler

Edward “Bobb” Koehler, age 63 of Oxford, Wisconsin died Monday, February 27, 2006 at the University Hospital in Madison, Wisconsin with his family at his side.

I wish I had gotten to know Uncle Bobb better.

Poem - Valentines Day 2006

The world is often
wrong. But you remind
me to rise above the
squabbling
or
is it “sink below it.”
Either way,
it is safe.

You are there, and
I am better because
of the “us” we have.

There is something
beyond love,
greater than love,
other than love that
is so much a part of
what we have that
it seems silly that
we cannot
decide what to call it.

Until we name it
we can just smirk at
each other and know
that it is there.

Poem - We Old Men

We are now
twenty-seven. The gleam
is gone, the world
is awful, we’ve had no
part in it but picking up
pieces, trying to make whole
people again – of
ourselves, mostly.

Mike, you were the fighter
for those who had no fists,
and I was the voice for the
dumb. How wrong of us
to think anyone gave a damn?

Least of all those we “helped.”
No combat, no blood, but plenty
of gore, the ugliness of human nature
is the challenge of our days –
our nights – and for those who love us.

Products of a bleak time;
the only good left for us is
despair.

Merry Christmas from C & C!!!

C + C Snowflake

Colleen and I have been decorating for the holidays. I've gotten into making snowflakes. Today I cut out a C + C snowflake. The image here is from a scan of the paper cut out with a background I added in Photoshop.