the elevator
...have you ever grappled with despair
not in imagery, symbolism or portrayal.
I mean, have you ever felt the elevator drop
the watery weakness that extenuates breath
a depth of fatigue that makes...
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Categories:
aldo, dark, daughter, depression, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Happy Birthday My Love
...Dear Aldo, when I met you it was on your birthday. One single
Elective rose sat on your jacket, you took it off and gave it to me
Aldo, even your name rolls off my ...
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Categories:
aldo, appreciation, love,
Form: Acrostic
We Bid Farewell
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We bid you farewell,Oh Dear!
Farewell Sweet Memory
Through faith We face reality.
Our God Himself descended
To his word We adhere
He held you a bit closer
and wiped away each tear....
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Categories:
aldo, blue,
Form: Free verse
Aldo's Note To Future Regenerations
...Aldo Leopold recommended
to would be ecotherapists
that we deeply learn
to "think like a mountain"
At life summit and death ebbing
silent scales of health
becoming
and polyculturing wealth
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Categories:
aldo, caregiving, earth, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Overlooked Beauty
...I hear him rambling on about the way he makes a mess
the way he eats his tomatoes then leaves with no confess
the flowers have been bent in his garden's sanctuary
he's a little creature wild ye...
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Categories:
aldo, nature,
Form: Couplet
Halloween Night
...Come we're gonna have a party wear a costume bring your cat
The cauldrons ready so don't tardy bring your Hocus Pocus hat
Grab some munchies at the door moaning sounds all that gore
It is A...
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Categories:
aldo, halloween,
Form: Rhyme