Best Tatterdemalion Poems

Three bangle bracelets
three initial charms, discrete
July birthday gift from my grandkids.
Three bangle bracelets
initially a set complete
until one bangle hit the skids.

Searching for a small bauble
proved very unsuccessful 
December has too many places.
Searching for a new bauble
proved equally distressful, 
I must buy a whole new bracelet.

Four...

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Today I am Broken, Today was the worst act I have ever committed in my life and the natural painful escape he made leaving this shell of a body I could only imagine your flawless perfection for all time. I am not unbreakable and feel...

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“When we contemplate the globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.”     John Muir

THE...

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