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Premium Member The Ballad of Clifford Griffin
In the spring of 1880 young Clifford Griffin immigrated from England to Colorado.
The death of his fiancee left him bereft and he was searchin' for...

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Categories: clifford, death, mystery,
Form: Ballad



In Loving Memory of Clifford Morgan Evans
It’s a lovely casket, my grandmother said
With tears in my eyes, I nodded my head
I did not want her to see me cry,
But seeing him...

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© Erin Evans  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: clifford, death, goodbye, grandfather, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Little By Little
Above the sea

another ocean

and just as blue

Sailing upwind

is all impossible

But don't give up yet

Little by little I come to you

We' d catch each wave

We'll ride...

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Categories: clifford, life, love,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Old Ball Game
When I was a child,
summer at my Aunt Joanne’s
meant staying out as late as it took the sun to set!
And mostly with my cousin Chris,
I...

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Categories: clifford, baseball,
Form: Prose
Premium Member One More Day
Checkered Past

I put out our checker board and pulled out your special chair
Imagined your delightful laughter, as if you were sitting there

That twinkle in your...

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Categories: clifford, celebration, children, death, encouraging,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Robot-Assisted Surgery
Appointment to have organ removed by robot-assisted surgeon.
Air-conditioned, no mosquitoes in the OR. When you arrive
You'll remove all your clothes. Naked before the ladies, nurses
Who...

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Categories: clifford, beauty, death, father, fear,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Balancing Work and Play
I was reading Rev. Julian Clifford Jaynes' homily,
delivered May of 1919
to the First Unitarian Society in West Newton, Massachusetts,
commenting on the 100 years since Channing's...

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Categories: clifford, christian, destiny, god, health,
Form: Prose Poetry
Renee Vivien Translations
Renee Vivien Translations


Song
by Renée Vivien
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

When the moon weeps,
illuminating flowers on the graves of the faithful,
my memories creep
back to you, wrapped...

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Categories: clifford, analogy, image, imagery, love,
Form: Sonnet
Epitaph To Fallen Heroes
As we rallied to the Falklands cry,
And prepared ourselves to fight and die,
Some willing, some pressed, some volunteers,
All with deep down hidden fears.
Gangways gone, Hawser...

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Categories: clifford, warwar, pain, may, me,
Form: I do not know?
The Good Bad Guy
what happens when a hit it and quit it guy, realizes that this is not the way he wants to live his life because its...

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Categories: clifford, age, change, growth, high
Form: I do not know?
Voyager
I am but an ordinary woman resting in my easy chair after a long day of work.
However I am about to transform myself into a...

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Categories: clifford, adventure, imagination, on writing
Form: Free verse
The Reign of Stormy Daniels
alternately titled: breast damned fallacy hi-jinxed!

In her “60 Minutes” interview aired
Sunday (March 26th, 2018),
the **** star known within red district
as Stormy Daniels bared
her "naked lady"...

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Categories: clifford, 12th grade, adventure, girlfriend,
Form: Free verse
Lites Up
Let my butterfly wings fly…in the glittery moonlight…
My words escape my lips with a lack of self-control and patience…
I’m sorry, but I’m lost…soon to be...

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Categories: clifford, butterfly, confusion, crazy, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Dream
That night I had slept peacefully,
no repeating of the nightmare of a few nights before.
In my dream I had heard a voice.
The voice was loud...

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Categories: clifford, deathnight, voice, night, voice,
Form: Imagism
Those Meat Pies
•	Those Meat Pies/Tony Adamo/2011
Straight to the head groove in hip time/ lay me out man It's jam time/ Ya know the funk is slight/ It's...

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© Tony Adamo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: clifford, freedom,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs