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The Durable Mick Malloy a True Story
In Jan, nineteen thirty-three, there was man called Mick Malloy
At the time he was an alcoholic and a poor homeless boy.
A young Irish fire-fighter out of work
He left his home in Donegal - to find some in New York.

He fell in with five real bad...

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Categories: durable, history, day, drink, life,
Form: Rhyme
Dressed For Death Act Two -Great Physician's Durable Clothing
Because sin death entered in is for sure a marry heart does good like a cure  											Good news for men like a new leaf fallen from a tree now a dying spirit a fading leaf  										the Glorious cross a promise kept from the...

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Categories: durable, faith, forgiveness, hope, life,
Form: Free verse
Non-Durable
[for a country doctor]

Here’s another beige plastic do-hickey 
busted. We’ll buy a new one, 
throw the old away.

But you would have tinkered it back 
till it worked. Thin physician hands 
adept at hammer, shovel, trowel, 
you could fix anything, or turn it
into something else of...

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Categories: durable, death, father, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member A Durable Peace
first things first

   internal peace…then 

          external...

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Categories: durable, peace,
Form: Senryu

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry