Birthday City Poems

The sun has risen, and a dove is cooing outside my window. All the tall buildings on my block seem to be resting. Here I...

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I had an early nap last night  without a drop of tear coming from my eyes, the day was exhausting my spirit was reeling...

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Golden Lady 

When I was little my mother used to tell me...
Life is not a novel
I chose life as a theater
When I was little my...

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Arthur's seat sits hidden by the cloak of night, his head up in the clouds. 
Princes Street lies empty, no royals, no life, no crowds....

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For my second Covid birthday
Nature surely did its duty
For providing me (and others)
With a day of perfect beauty.

Did my early morning walking
As the sun began...

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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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My City Cowboy

You don't wear boots, 
not the fancy ones...
unless there is a;
marriage, birth or death.
Otherwise, it is work shoes, 
steel-toed, 
and seldom shiny. 

Plain...

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Needy

Wants!
They are so hard to handle.
Everyone has one, even if they don’t want one. 
Some try to hide theirs, but it shows. 
I hate to...

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Feet

Mine sweat. 
Mine are also cold. 
This is a dilemma. 

I get the chills,
so I put boots on. 
I am warm,
and comfortable. 

Then… sweat.

How does...

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I liked America way back when stripes were stripes-
everyone complained at the very same times,

I liked it when tapes were tapes,
and lakes were lakes,

I remember...

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It is called the American Bar in the Savoy Hotel, in the Covenant Garden area of central London just off the Strand.  Tonight, it...

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An afternoon sunlight
carried a shade of winter, 
an oblique sharp razor
that stretched my skin
and again I live, those northern seasons
with a feeling of deep intimacy,
the...

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Lagos, the land where dreams berth at the shores of realities...
The oasis of potentials and priceless opportunities,
the hub of emerging economies and innovative technologies...
Lagos is...

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The snow patches are seen
They are spread out everywhere
I see the brown grass that has appears
All buds on the trees ready to grow
Everything is being...

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R-ide like the howling wind
O-n a wave of popularity
W-ill make one drown
E-ven in the shallow sea.
N-ight sail in the deep ocean at the threat of...

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