Lost Aubade Poems

Plantin' the Garlic and the Potatoes
I can only Hope in the Heirloom Tomatoes

The Daisies push up well past the Day
With Evan Porter sleepin' outside in...

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I Love You
I love thee dearly and these are the ways
Whispered sweet nothings that light up my days
Magical moments the two of us share 
Tenderly...

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It's been a year 
One miraculous story 
Through 2020 God gets the glory 
We seen a lot 
We lost so much 
We never lost God's...

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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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The wild beast

On the savanna runs the spring-bock not easy to catch by lions,
but as it gets older and slower, it loses out and becomes...

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Emilia In Romagna

Somewhere a lost little girl
Is crying in her bedroom closet
Because she can’t hear
Her mama
Moving about anymore
She can see dim shapes
Mama stored stuff in...

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I'd rather take nice deeds for granted
than not believe in Heaven
And make the others feel their shame
when lost comparing devon

That I am lost for seeing...

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Somehow I want my heart to shut down
To sabotage my way
To make the other in my life
expect what I'm to pay

To make my heart obey...

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Every Day You Play
by Pablo Neruda
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

Every day you play with Infinity’s rays.
Exquisite visitor, you arrive with the flowers and the...

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Trust in yourself
If you trust others, they do so
Out of self-interest
Not what is best for you.
To be a follower is dangerous
When you wake up naked
And...

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The healer

Do you remember the night when?
The floodlight came on as we sat by the riverside?
You said you loved me and I quickly said ditto,
A...

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morn' has dawned
   and my
dream just fell
away
drifting
fading
gone-
   lost
    paused
      dead
in 
time
till:
  ...

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each of us is naked inside our clothes left as a tender rose as you suppose
an untimely gift so you get my drift in a...

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Jewel-colored butterflies flutter in scarlet sage
Hovering hummingbirds on a red tubular stage

Highways they navigate apparently their own
Invisible to humans as they stay in their zone

These...

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World Cup - 2018
Football season
Football fever
Glued to the television

Moments of anxiety
Nail biting
Edge chair sitting
Cussing the players, the referee
Despair, heart wrenching, disappointment

Then

Screaming, shouting... G O A...

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