Journey Chicago Poems

There was no easy day going under cover 
with four kids riding along with the FBI supervisor 
I was just a young mother of four...

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What is carnival without the music? What is carnival with the dance? What is carnival without the colors, what is carnival without a song? ...

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Not an occasion for the
Queasy or fainthearted
But the start of a journey
Into waters uncharted
Not an element of skill
Just a game of luck and chance
To throw...

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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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In 1967, fresh out of high school at seventeen, I boarded a northbound bus to the metropolis of the mid-west. After arriving in Chicago, while...

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"Don't look a gift horse in the mouth", I question.
Research on this ancient proverb, of course
finally brought me to this aged suggestion:
"the longer its teeth,...

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___O Wrinkled Face ____


O wrinkled face
I loved you when you were young and beautiful. 

Your smile how sweet that lets the whole world smiles with...

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Deep in the little boy’s heart, he was thinking about a place called destiny. 
His environment provided too little hope for a future of building...

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More than 46 years ago in Evanston, C` Lee met a young lady            ...

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