Autumn Chicago Poems

a red leaf
an apparition
in the city
it falls
it bleeds
into shadows
and holds
stories of summer
in its veins
a cold wind blows
and somewhere
a songbird
it sings
a plaintiff cry
it sings
for those
who live...

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Chicago skyscrapers are peeking into their lake mirror
Autumn leaves floating around the land so clear
Concrete bridge where people are low voice talking
Squirrels running out in...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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I look up into the sky
 and I see the stars
 heavens smiles
 and my father is the creator
 of all
All the twinkling lights...

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The rotting of a socialist


I knew of a young man a rebel who wanted
his country to adopt the Scandinavian model of socialism.
He was elected to...

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nineseventeenPM on a winter's night asleep
 wolf wind's a-whistlin' and a-howlin'
   reaching under every blanket, every sheet
     grasping shivering...

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She wrote a letter 
Which I happily read
In Spring
Summer baked on
Autumn arrived with a chill in the air
Winter followed with snow 
Then the call came
Aunt...

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