Thank You Chicago Poems

FOR PAM


On this Spring night. I would love to take you to dinner,
Because,no matter what,you did treat me like a winner.
We both were as different,as...

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Ever-cheerful and optimistic
An island of sanity midst pandemic's panic
A voice of reason in a sea of shouts
   Dr. Janice Jackson, public schools CEO
...

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             * A Star Danced*


So ebony soft is indeed this night.
However, only to be lit by a dancing star.
I...

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***After school twin sisters meet in the schoolyard waiting for friends, ahead of a spring break, girl-talk kicks up...


I have a secret as to you,
Do...

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_____Daddy Saved These______

It has been many moons since my 
Father passed.
Then came that day, I unearthed 
these lovely treasures Daddy had 
saved.

My very first pair...

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Tribute to a Greek-American

~~Peter Kogeones, RIP~~

Owner of the Grocery Diana,
on Halstead Street in Chicago
was the merriest Greek, I ever 
did meet!
He worked day and night and
brought...

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Chicago, I forgot to say thank you!

I forgot to say thank you for my successful birth .
With the nuns at St. Mary's, all dressed in white,
Who...

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The postage stamp had now fallen off the envelope but not lost. Tucked away in the box was the stamp that authorized a letter from...

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It was in eighteen eighty-six in the streets of Chicago,
where the greatest miscarriage of justice people would know
transpired in an infamous labor-police rendezvous.
Albert Parsons led...

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