Anniversary Absence Poems

April 9th, 2024 would be ninety fifth birthday poem for dearly departed papa

The following words crafted soon after the soul of me daddy set adrift...

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Mornings come, but never stays
Even as slow as a snail
It crawls away
Slowly but surely, it comes to night

The lights fades and eyes deem
wallowing in the...

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I used to be tired all the time. 

I used to be tired all the time cuz we would talk all night.

I used to be...

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April 3,  2051

Dolly speculated about home, "the kids."
And decided Skype contact before
The dawn of day. Next day early morning.
Dolly was thinking, "this turned out...

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Date: April   2051

Dolly was beginning a slow panic.
"Alright this can not fail! "Where are
They now? The wedding is tomorrow!"
I wanna call Virginia make...

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The A, class people 

there had been a mass outbreak, thefts from the store 
selling fairy tales, honestly, it had nothing to do with me...

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Future time traveler looks back one century ago

I exhibit health and virility at one hundred and 
64 years astride planet earth, whereby spouse,
(who remained married...

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"oh, I only said that for a joke"
She said, undoubtedly embarrassed
At my gratitude

If course she did,
How could she have come up with those words
Randomly,

Such a...

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Dad steps back into this room.
Today is his birthday,
soon to be his wedding anniversary.
The day before yesterday marked
the date of his engagement.

Yes, this is Dad,...

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Harriet Harris née Kuritsky circa November 13th, 
1935 - ~ May 4th, 2005
(untimely death sentence ordained ~ early February 1935)

I trot out a poem acknowledging...

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A romantic interlude

At sunset, when the evening has a bluish taint 
I think to myself I should have written more
how wonderful life can be.
She smells...

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Precious priceless progeny 

     Hands down the most dramatic change ever needed to make the most profound impact awoke from helping...

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Beyond the mourning of bereavement

Today marks fourth anniversary of tragic deaths
an aching breaking heart – mine
remembers four extinguished breaths.

(dashed – not while riding off
in a...

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Poetic paean to papa's princess

Otherwise titled:
Mien wonderful wedded divine wife....,

whose piercing deliverance,
a balm ameliorating tattooed strife
despite being dirt poor,
(especially after dirty deeds done... 
generating thunderstruck...

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Broken by miseries of life
I became nib of pen
People call me "poet"

In puzzles of night
i spill my pain over the lonely pages

I find my sumptuous...

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