Courage April Poems

     In Battery Point, two centuries stayed
     Settlers’ cottage, compact, sandstone stoic
     Paired...

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Glory to thermodynamics in general...

and generation of heat in particular
cuz yours truly 
spoiled with trappings 
of Western Civilization.

How ideal I imagine 
to dwell in a...

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Everyday it's the same old thing
Wondering what this one will bring
Same ol day as yesterday
What can I say
Time goes by 
And it's time to cry
Memories...

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April filled with love
Pretty blue skies with big clouds
Rain will bring a bath
Iris and flowers will grow
Lovely gardens springing up...

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The East

The East wind is cold 
and is full of hoarfrost. 
It crosses the land, 
in a wild storm, raging!
It is heavy with hail, 
and...

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Date: 04/26/2022
Contest name: An original terzanelle poetry contest
Sponsored by:L MILTON HANKINS

I asked Life, 'Why are you so unfair?',
With sadness and suffering shouting out loud,
Happiness is...

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Brilliant, grandiloquent, magnificent, trenchant...
albeit modest word zealot

Writing prompts burst asunder
snap, crackle, and sweet Mary poppin
within me scrambled noggin
witnessing yours truly to blunder
blindly along this dark...

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The Showers fall gently
giving all plants a drink
it is watering time
pretty flowers in pink
wow back ground of key lime  



The Showers fall gently
are they...

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shuttering fright housed inside
in one poof annihilating prejudice
(white privilege included) and pride
reducing to ashes trumpeting
self importance, where snide
persona grata becomes irrelevant
as does living social
or vacationing...

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The first anniversary since being pelted...

with pistachio shells April 3rd, 2021
sitting in the exact same chair
yours truly sat three hundred 
and sixty five days ago....

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I.

When he was born, within the early spring,
It was the year Nineteen Seventy-Five.
All hearts were warmed with the joy he would bring,
Knowing as he grew...

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You call again, and you talk endlessly
In this house, we spend many nights
Night after night, night after night
You tell me that you are mine
Now you...

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Twas fortnight before inspection 2021...,

Not a human creature stirred, nor seen 
throughout Highland Manor, 
property carpeted in lush green
gently hilly terrain,
(a deathlike stillness descended un...

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April is a wonderful spring month                   ...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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