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Mary Eliza Mahoney Rn -United States First Black Nurse

Mary
 Mary Eliza Mahoney 
birth in 1845 an American black child of former slaves daughter of Mary Jane and Charles Mahoney 
at 18 showed interest...

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Categories: mahoney, adventure, analogy, engagement, history,
Form: Bio

America Wasn'T So Bad Back Then

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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Categories: mahoney, america,
Form: Prose

Funny As a Heart Attack

A group of older men gather
once a week to talk about life 
after a heart attack.

Old Len chews tobacco still 
and tells jokes in a...

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Categories: mahoney, heart, sick,
Form: Blank verse

Ballerina Marries a Bricklayer

Third day on her honeymoon
Sharon asks Butch what it's like 
for a man before he gets married.

A bricklayer by trade, 
and a man of few...

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Categories: mahoney, love,
Form: Blank verse

A Walk In the Woods

In the woods soft snow
falls on the first day of spring.
Two daffodils laugh.



Donal Mahoney...

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Categories: mahoney, flower, snow, spring,
Form: Haiku

American Rainbow

Black lives matter
in different ways 
to different people
in the American rainbow
especially bus companies
that bounce over potholes
in the big cities of America.
For them money matters.

If blacks...

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Categories: mahoney, racism,
Form: Blank verse

At Sadie's Soul Food Grill

Otis was once a monk 
who took no vows, was
free to leave the abbey 
and eventually he did.  
I met him over chicken wings...

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Categories: mahoney, food, religious,
Form: Blank verse

Old Quilter, Old Poet

She’s been making quilts
for half a century and he’s been 
making poems that long as well
and every now and then he brings 
a chocolate shake...

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Categories: mahoney, art,
Form: Blank verse

Caseworker Determining Eligibility

Caseworker Determining Eligibility 

		Cabrini-Green Projects
		Chicago

The child, age two, hammocked in the half
moon of his mother’s arms, is locked
in palsy, yet moves an eyelid as I...

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Categories: mahoney, socialmother,
Form: Free verse

At a Bank of Elevators

Reunions can happen 
and leave you speechless.
I’m standing at a bank 

of elevators in a hospital
going to visit my wife 
when a wheelchair rolls up

carrying...

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Categories: mahoney, cancer,
Form: Blank verse

An Uppercut I Remember

Dad hit me only once, an upper cut to the solar plexus. It nearly lifted me off my feet. I was 17 then and already...

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Categories: mahoney, father son,
Form: Blank verse

A Poem For Catholics

Natural Family Planning
has its ups and downs
so to speak but it often  

works quite well.
But when the calendar
says not tonight

I ask my wife to...

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Categories: mahoney, marriage,
Form: Blank verse

Patsy Foley Was Roly-Poly In 1947

It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant "Patsy Foley's roly-poly from eating too...

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Categories: mahoney, memory,
Form: Prose

An Affective Disorder, the Doctor Said

No, Freddie can’t say he mourned when his father died and his father’s third wife found Freddie's number and gave him a call to give...

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Categories: mahoney, anxiety, mental illness, ,
Form: Prose

Daylily

Blooming for one day
a lily welcomes the sun.
Bumblebees drop in.


Donal Mahoney...

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Categories: mahoney, nature,
Form: Haiku