Life Abc Poems

The Watershed

There was a time when 45. I thought life had passed me by
I had spent too much time seeing the night train leave.
Through the...

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A Poet Road
Now that it is hot and the sun has turned from
a warm friend to a raging enemy, what did I say
to make it...

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Among us

The dance of death never stops
A plane crossing the Atlantic loses heights
the chief pilot flirts with a woman
when called to the cockpit 
Too late,...

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They Fought for Their Country They Fought to Make
It Free
But Where Did They End up Not the Place They Expected To Be
They Fought for Their...

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Poem :  my heart 
Oh my heart 
What happened to you 
Where is your lub dub, 
Where is your fuel 
Where is your beating...

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The eternal seaman

Coming from the sea, he stayed at a B/B hotel Churchill 
 near the railway station in Liverpool, a handy place for working women
to...

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I have been abandoned,
Left as a baby,
The main person you want around,
Is the mother figure,
No cards, no letters,
No visitations she made,
Just left me in the...

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We as one,

Bleed the same color,

We as one,

Still cut the same,

We as one,

Have children to look after,

We as one,

Should raise them to know of our...

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The blues affair

I met her where the light was weakening
an enduring twilight had settled on what
was re-lived in the memory of summer
moving out of the...

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The boy, the padre, and the abbess.

The padre hung in the bell fry the boy didn’t know
at the time, the padre was his father; this...

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Fear and other things

I have recurring nightmares and tell myself
 to remember the dream in the morning
but I'm unable to recall the gruesome dream
I think...

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The  furrows of Life
 
The narrow way leading up to the farm from the main
the road had a gate, so cattle could not wander off to
the...

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Easter Reading
In Lima – Peru- a hippo was pulling the tram car with
 its best friend, a water buffalo. They had ended up
 here, far...

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The God Thing
I often think of God, but Morgan Freeman`s face gets in the way
So, now we know God is a handsome actor looking godlike...

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When the ancient goes wild 
Our hotel in Porto was at the highest point
although we had been promised a room downtown we
didn’t have to walk so...

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