Best Duane Poems

We have something in common, a fellow I talk to now and then. We’re about the same age and perhaps the only ones in the...

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Through graveyard
meandering, just
me and Dad
stories sad
abbreviated down to
mostly names and dates

So we tell
their stories by turns
like poor Duane
Dinwiddie
died at age thirty-three of
bee sting allergy

So tragic
how...

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The radio plays their song
And two hearts beat as one
To the rhythm of a tune they call their own.
The gold and platinum vinyl spins
Creating the...

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I have spent most my life on ships of steel
Things of fiction now so real
I pray for my brothers who have passed
From every nation that...

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Dear Mom and Dad, it's me, your son;
Out of my brothers, I'm the handsome one.
You've been gone for quite a while;
I'm glad you raised me...

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Native, Liteskin, sun kissed
smiles
sit, talk, get to know me 
a while
for I am not my skin and 
even though the tan pigment
runs deep
I am my...

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Memorial Day is a day to remember those that have past
Keeping the pursuit of happiness in our grasp
They paid the ultimate sacrifice so willingly
Allowing all...

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You all were taken way to soon
To go and listen to an angel's tune
As you sit and listen to their song
You are not where you...

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Here is another poem for you to ponder
As I sit here and let my mind wander
Are you all you think you can be?
Or are you...

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There is an animal in my head
That is dying to be feed
He needs to be set free
In the form of literacy

He has so many things...

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I am all alone in this great big world
My destiny is being unfurled
I am responsible for my plight
And what I may do tonight

There is no...

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1960 and the world was changing
A time for living and rearranging
Baseball in the school yard with a sponge ball and a fist
Donnie Brooks sang Mission...

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I have finally met the love of my life
It won’t be long and I’ll ask her to be my wife
I hope and pray she will...

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Winter storms and I

Are sometimes one in the same.

Dark and gloomy, no blue sky

We feel no shame.

When the storm is done

Beauty is left behind.

No need...

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On a cool October breeze in 1973,
A child was born with a blanket worn;
That baby was cute, little me.

Two days before Halloween,
The first things I...

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