Heartfelt Poetry to Comfort, Inspire, and Touch Hearts
Written to comfort the grieving, uplift the weary, celebrate love, and family, honor country, and strengthen Christian faith.
Meet Ron Tranmer
I was born in Jerome, Idaho in 1940, the oldest of seven children, and have been “married to an angel” for 64 years. Together we’ve raised four children, welcomed thirteen grandchildren, and now enjoy many great-grandchildren.
My love for poetry began at age eight, when a poem for the prettiest girl in my class earned a smile and sparked a lifelong passion. Since then, I’ve written and copyrighted more than 400 poems inspired by love, loss, faith, family, and life’s defining moments. Some of my work has been licensed and appears on plaques, keepsakes, and memorials, and I’ve published three books of poetry, with a fourth in progress.
Through rhyme, I hope to remind readers of the enduring importance of God, family, friendship, country, compassion, humor, and love. My poems may be shared for personal, non-profit use with proper credit; commercial use requires permission. Above all, I’m grateful when my words bring comfort, reflection, or hope to others.
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Spotlight Poem
Memorial Day
We’re gathered to give honor
to our hero’s buried here.
Those who served our Country
to preserve what we hold dear.
In times of peace or war.
At home or overseas.
Because they served, Old Glory
still waves proudly in the breeze.
To those who gave their very lives,
words cannot convey
the gratitude felt in our hearts
for what each had to pay.
Dear Lord we still have many
yet on the battlefield.
Guide them and protect them.
Be their armor, guide and shield.
And when the conflict’s over
and our victory flag has flown,
bring the sons and daughters
of our nation, safely home.
May the spirits of our brave
who now dwell with Thee above;
Know a thankful nation ,
remembers them with love.