Merry Christmas Dearest Daddy
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12/7/2023
No more am I your sweet little girl...
I am far past, brown braids and curls.
No shopping now for dolls and toys,
Remember when I first liked ...
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Categories:
brookfield, christmas, father daughter, memory,
Form: Couplet
Summer of '70
...School was out for the summer,
and the summer heat was beaming.
The children were playing, getting wet
and cool by the blasting fire hydrants.
Even in a thriving metropolis such as Chicago,
'The...
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Categories:
brookfield, marriage, romantic,
Form: Free verse
First City
...In the late 60s in 'the second city', on the southside at 43rd and Calumet, there stood a mission cen...
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Categories:
brookfield, america, chicago, christian, faith,
Form: Narrative
The Last of the Funerals
...“the last of the funerals”
today “the last of the funerals”
takes place &
the killings in CT get placed on the
shelf,
alongside the deaths at Columbine,
Virginia Tech...
those were the “big ones” r...
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Categories:
brookfield, life, high school,
Form: Free verse