Grandmother Confidence Poems

Date:  March  2051

Nearly spring afternoon Molly Dolly
And Holly were visiting the grown
Children across the street. Damian 
Was on video com with the family...

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Friday afternoon year 
April 2032 the weather was 
Just right. Damian sought to
Purchase a barrage of a 13
Bicycle collection. It would be
A surprise for his...

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She is the Strongest,
Situations she conqueres
Like life is facile....

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marguerite bergman, small town Iowa girl
ran off with a Texan at age sixteen in 1916
ran back home after he beat her in 1917
divorced husbands numbers...

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Some enjoyed stealing my joy, squelching my light
I let them because I was young, and I thought worthless
They made fun of my talents, calling me...

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Follows rules, since he was young.
Of being great, he climbs each rung.
His parents taught him right from wrong.
He will achieve his soul’s song!

Nothing free for...

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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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you showed me by example how high I could soar ~




AP: Honorable Mention 2022, Honorable Mention 2020

Posted on October 23, 2020...

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It’s a topographical nightmare. 
The terrain rises and slopes over small mountain ranges I wish everyday were freckles. 
The landforms, shifting and rising with every...

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I am a poor cerebral palsy man full of sorrow
Born into this wide world alone
I have no hope for tomorrow
Somehow I have a notion 
That...

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Angels Sing

I hear them, 
all the time. 
When I pick up my child, 
and hold her close, 
her breath…
Harps; lovely,
faraway, 
and distant.

When I go to...

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Speak pure truth and right
The world 'll never like your fight

Live a fake already designed life like robot
The world 'll smile 'n grade you in...

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It was twenty years ago
Yet it seem like yesterday
Since you got me this book
Sure I was starting 
to show signs of a teenager
At first a...

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Stoked in low; 
stoked in high;
Try to reach up; 
to that sky.

Your placement here; 
Has just been in passing;
It's over now; 
Life's not that harassing.

Don't...

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Oh mother mine, you're a friend to the end.
Seen you be a borrower a lender and a fixer of broken men.
You see your sons ...

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