Best Twenty Six Poems

I don't get to church on Easter.
I'm so sorry that it is true.
I make the big Easter dinner
With my guests more than quite  a...

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My Family


Nearly six decades
still side by side in our life
with dear family

Three children now grown
one son and two sweet daughters
all our pride and joy

Those three...

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Bent fingers trace embroidered leaves
on satin and long lacy sleeves.
Blush roses, twenty-six she counts--
A French word she can't now pronounce.

She blows dust from old envelopes
tied...

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My name, it is Reginald,
and I’ve got a story to tell,
some folks, they will not like it,
they’ll cry out,”Go to hell!”

You see my wife beside...

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From dead sands
a step was birthed
of stone ...
a carved staircase
leading down ... and deep.
Shovels bit,
whisks brushed,
cartouches
led on ...
November
twenty-six,
nineteen-twenty-two,
chisels breached an entrance
and ...
The Boy King arose!




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Bent love never dies it just keeps bending. 
Until it morphs into a burning boomerang. 
That smacks you in the chambers of your half-mast heart.

I...

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One big boom reverberates,
we shelter 'neath the railway bridge,
the swirling wind ensures we get a soaking anyway.
The Croal is roaring well above the watermark,
the nature...

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[This poem first appeared in the anthology, "The Soul and the Singer," Young Publications, c. 1968.  It was reprinted in my first poetry chapbook...

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I watched the New York Marathon.
A woman held the lead;
And everyone expected her 
To win the race, indeed.

Another racer tagged behind
But halfway through, dropped back
And...

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Have you ever mourned the blah-ness of your life? Yearning for something new to happen?
Daring to hope for something fresh to be excited about? ...

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3:01

Its midnight,
And it’s settling in.
I’ve been home
Just a few hours.
Comfortable in my home,
At ease with my hobbies.
But then I feel it.
It starts with a tingling,
All...

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When I saw my child that day
my spirit was broken down
My heart and thoughts could not stray
from those parents in Newtown 

How will they ever...

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I never missed you
nestled high upon my chest
lovely soft round pillows
full haughty globes.
Admired.  Yes,
even by me.
Prideful I was,
blessed among women.
Even when you were gone
it...

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Freezing water.
Many hours.
Prayer, hymns, and laughter.
Gray fins begin circling our group.

Day Three There are thirteen of us now.
Twenty-six numb legs stop moving.
Hymn singing stops.
Who will...

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I find listening to music very therapeutic.
All types of music be it opera to jazz can change a person's mood
in minutes lifting spirits to great...

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