Not a Trace
...Even the most familiar surroundings were unrecognized
A most fathomless affair; the search for yesterday
The Old Library and playground were also gone
The Chinaberry tree, a landmark, was gone
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Categories:
chinaberry tree, home,
Form: Verse
My Friend Jack
...My best guess is that I must
have been 6 or 7. Back then,
long before boys like me turned
into men, I had a friend named Jack.
Anyway, I was just a little boy
when I first met him. He was
tru...
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Categories:
chinaberry tree, childhood, dog, friendship, pets,
Form: Narrative
A Strange Feeling 2
...If I gave it time, I suppose hundreds of things would come to mine.
Like the old two-story mansion where my father's friend made moonshine.
Like the feel of blue, an escape route, that turned many ...
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Categories:
chinaberry tree, family, home,
Form: Narrative
Bow and Arrows-F
...There is much to be said about weaponry in my childhood.
About our weapons made for play and not for conflict.
But may just one lifetime-moment suffice for now.
A moment in the manufacturing of Bo...
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Categories:
chinaberry tree, boy, childhood,
Form: Narrative
My Father's House-F
...In my Heavenly Father's house, there are many mansions, and I look forward
to spending an eternity there with him. But my earthly father's house wa...
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Categories:
chinaberry tree, america, childhood, father, home,
Form: Narrative
My Yesterplace
...Perhaps you too know of an animal species that is extinct, of a people, a place, or a thing that is no more. Perhaps you have heard of a place...
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Categories:
chinaberry tree, childhood, home,
Form: Narrative
Sage Saga of a Home On a Hill
...Sage Saga Of A Home On A Hill
Having drank from the sun at meridian,
The moon drunk with the light
Of reflection, always dissipated dreaded darkness
Seeking to veil the Hill—Raised bump
Of n...
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Categories:
chinaberry tree, allegory, analogy, black african
Form: Prose Poetry
Sage Saga Of A Home On A Hill
...Sage Saga Of A Home On A Hill
Having drank from the sun at meridian,
The moon drunk with the light
Of reflection, always dissipated dreaded darkness
Seeking to veil the Hill—Raised bump
Of n...
...
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Categories:
chinaberry tree, allegory, analogy, anniversary, black
Form: Prose Poetry
Was This Poem Written Yet
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The poem was visualized on the front, screen porch,
in silence, in wonder...
It swarmed the Autumn-purpled flowers by the door,
leafed through reds, golds of the Chinaberry Tree...
sleucing wor...
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Categories:
chinaberry tree,
Form: Alliteration
Ludachkas' Hammock
...The touch of gossamer wings
on eyelids busy with the darkest,deepest
thoughts of sleep
under the chinaberry tree
bending,sighing
one with the sea of grass
windy waves
chasing each other across...
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Categories:
chinaberry tree, family, happiness, nostalgia,
Form: Blank verse