Peace Chicago Poems

I didn't know him as a serial not exactly 
at least not at first even though I'd overheard 
the plotting of arson from a dim...

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Solitude
Away from life's attitude
Not seeking gratitude
Not wishing  anyone to be around
Nor do I want found 
Rather watch as life drives on by
Get along I...

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First time to be in USA,  I think I am still in  South Africa, 
More things resemble, 
Let me tell you Americans and South Africans, ...

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For the New Year, humble, with love,
I make a wish for you, in this great time,
I send it on the wings of a white dove,
With...

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Ho-hum, another war lost
  We should have won
Our new partner for peace ~ the Taliban

Ho-hum, a new school year
  First semester's curriculum
 ...

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Tears in a revolution 
Tear gas from the institution 

The judge doesn't know their names
But the whole world was watching

A panther put with the bunch
Bound...

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How free I was, I did not know.
Growing up in Chicago, oh
Police in blue, protected streets.
Life was sparkling and sweet.  
Verdant lawns were so gleefully...

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       CLOSING TIME AT THE PUB


The joy, the camaraderie, the smoke.
The great ale, my great friends in Chicago.
Old Town,...

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Stores are closed, shuttered
   Highways and roads uncluttered
On the water alight ducks and geese
   The air is still, infused with peace

Lonely...

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I see you sit
Blank without wit


You look so sad
Not glad or mad


I see you look
Like a blank book


You stare so far
A distant star


I see you...

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It will be alright 
It was peace in the valley a deep harmony of those who fled 
to the countryside to avoid the foul air...

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A Life Changing Misdial

One of my favorite poems is Robert Frost’s “Road Not Taken”, which I read for the first time in high school. ...

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THE BATTLE OF SOUTH CHICAGO
The freeze has brought them to a winter night
they've made themselves, forgetting what is right,
and though they see their children cry
there's...

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Departing Sacramento, Ca. just past 7:00 AM PT on a nice Saturday morning, we headed for Chicago. All is going well as we take off,...

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I'm tired as I'm about to expire trying to conspire to take my education higher where to 
the world I am sire
I get tired of...

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