Off fish hill Daylight saving time 2025
...Off fish hill Daylight saving time 2025
min(no) newt effect on me.
As part and parcel of terpsichorean repertoire,
one whirling dervish
flaps his wings at the speed of sound.
With twenty ...
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Categories:
congestive, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
In time
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In the hospital gown, a skeleton
of the man who once held his little girl,
embracing her like she was fragile,
like the heart who is finally failing him,
the heart who is diagnosed ‘congesti...
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Categories:
congestive, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Awaiting a growth spurt that never happened
...Awaiting a growth spurt that never happened
When a boy,
I wanted to be as tall as my father
(he passed away October seventh
two thousand and twenty
linkedin to congestive heart failure),
who ...
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Categories:
congestive, 12th grade, 9th grade,
Form: Free verse
April 9th, 2024 would be ninety fifth birthday poem for dearly departed papa
...April 9th, 2024 would be ninety fifth birthday poem for dearly departed papa
The following words crafted soon after the soul of me daddy set adrift into the empyrean realm joining the rank and fil...
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Categories:
congestive, absence, age, anniversary, april,
Form: Rhyme
Only Son Forsaking His Filial Promise To Father On His Deathbed
...After papa succumbed
to congestive heart failure
October 7th, 2020 yours truly
neglected fulfilling promised score.
I did shirk maintaining bond
with youngest sister
who when a boy especially...
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Categories:
congestive, absence, age, allegory, autumn,
Form: Rhyme
Living On a High-Wire Trapeze
...Thirty years I have lived with chronic heart disease,
After heart surgery at fifty, more problems arrived,
I have felt like I am living on a high-wire trapeze
With faith in God and med...
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Categories:
congestive, feelings, health, me, sick,
Form: Pantoum
Sorry, Barbara Bush
...Saltine crackers have become my worst enemy
Add that to my rapidly-growing list of “do-not-eats”
Along with many common foods I considered treats
Salt, sugar, and fats, in general, are my archenem...
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Categories:
congestive, endurance, food, health, heart,
Form: Quatrain
Inevitable Demise Courtesy Grim Reaper
...Since advent of *****sapiens
objection overruled against immortality
all across millenniums humans
generated, amplified, and
idly reverberated (Billy me) rebel yell,
when finality 'twixt consc...
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Categories:
congestive, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
April Ninth Four Score and Eleven Years Ago
...How fast the years did clip and leap away,
till your Earth orbitz count ninety decades
+ uno journeys orbited around mister sun
encompassing metaphorical magnum opus
figuratively paginated bound ...
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Categories:
congestive, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Elegy
An Emergency She Did Entail
...An Emergency She Did Entail
This is what happened.
Was congestive heart failure
caused by pneumonia. Seems
to be latest thing.
She had started appearing frail and pale,
And several tests sh...
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Categories:
congestive, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
My Wife Jill Almost Died
...You never realize how much you love
Someone until you are next to them
In their possible death bed unconscious;
I will never forget the terrible experience.
We shudder each time we drive by t...
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Categories:
congestive, allegory, analogy,
Form: I do not know?
I Love My Hindu View of Resurrection
...You and I are different, apparently separate, and end the same at our END
Death is that unannounced birthday gift, we never open in life
When I entered the world, I didn't receive it, and failed to...
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Categories:
congestive, analogy, atheist, bible, death,
Form: Verse
Eileen
...Eileen was born 80 1/2 years ago
on the first day of winter on the ground a bit of snow
with a twinkle in her eyes and a healthy glow
having both outer and inner beauty to bestow,
Second oldest...
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Categories:
congestive, for her, mom, ,
Form: Rhyme
Red
...Mom was always so energetic and vibrant
always practical how her time was spent
her house so orderly and well kept
tenants in her cottage paying her rent,
Then like on her mailbox a red flag we...
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Categories:
congestive, cancer, health, mom, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
Find It Odd
...Last fall she was dancing up a storm
at her grandsons wedding attire adorned,
having more energy than the energizer bunny
twirling around having a demeanor very sunny,
Then late April of this y...
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Categories:
congestive, health, irony, mom,
Form: Light Verse
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