Song Age Poems

I was a competent, happy housewife, but that was before my husband died,
Leaving me to rear myriad children solo, as the lone star twinkles with...

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I have waited for so long to share this impromptu song, I have created it myself, the day when I heard that my mother was...

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There's more rust in my joints than ever.
My bones sound like an old screen door,
and my knees predict the weather
better than any app.
Give me elastic...

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Last few years 
I had so many fears.
Tears
I knew I was dying.
To myself I was not lying.
Dying alone made me afraid
In my brain I stayed...

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It is a poem nobody wants to write,
About what will never be right,
About those who think they have the right,
To take from a child all...

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Turn up the radio and ...
It's the same ol' situation, 
The same songs, same band
That raised my generation 

That was then, this is now
Nothing's changed...

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Last few years gone by
Time seems to fly.
Of late 
as is fate
I am seeing my due date
My expiration time is coming due
But I do not...

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SPHINX STONE 

I am Sphinx Stone
Sun stationed statue
silent sculptured synoptic 
not marble or granite 
nor black tourmaline or
crystal sapphire quartz
vortex for Void actualising 
sacred amber...

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Book cause I spend an inordinate amount of time reading...

out loud.

As a hypothetical argument 
yours truly doth not aim
to be unfortunate recipient
of misguided, misjudged, and...

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Time's relentless hands cast their shadows
On a middle-aged woman in a lonely corner of her room
She drapes her shawl around her shoulders,
And there she sits...

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Forward March 

Marching forward 
Forward March 
There is so much to finish 
Where do I start
God created my heart 
He made it new
It's time to...

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I wish I could remember better.
I wish I didn’t forget your birthday,
Your favorite color, your favorite song,
But maybe it was for the best
Because I know...

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From the thistle and vine
From the thicket of thorn
Into the light of the morning    
Out from the briar patch, gone

In a flicker...

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DOUBLE TAKE

“I've looked at life from both sides now
From win and lose and still somehow
It's life's illusions I recall
I really don't know life at all”

These...

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The golden hues scatter, they age, stepping softly into the twilight,
Velvet angels of summer falling, amid leaves seeking the calm of the earth,
Gardens of grapes,...

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