- By Robert Funderburk
Beyond Seasons & Other Poetry

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.
Fragile
She was but an errant breeze
That stirs the garb of dust
Born by reckless winds
Birthing love and lust.
An image in a quiet pool
Flawless, filled with such
Promise, and then shattered by
The slightest breath or touch.
Robert Funderburk was born by coal oil lamplight in our home near Liberty, Mississippi, graduated from Louisiana State University in 1965, serving as SSgt in USAFR from 1965 - 1971. He now lives with my wife, Barbara, enjoying the peace of their home on fifty acres of wilderness in Olive Branch, Louisiana.