Beauty Cousin Poems

prancing dancing pudd’n and pie
boys run off, I’ll tell you why
fear of failure to even try
there goes one now, my cousin Cy

He is terrified of...

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supple body in a white nightshirt
          that slips from a round pink shoulder
   ...

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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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There is no God. I sigh. Yawn. Give a nod.
I don’t believe it anyway, he says. He is a clod.
He looks over his shoulder to...

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When I was a little kid, 
I used to play with my 
Little cousins,
In my grandma's huge 
Old house 
With no electricity... 

It was a...

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"everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." - Confucious
 

all she could see were her scars-
painted perfectly upon her chest like
a reverie flowing to...

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My cousin Tallie
was a real-life
award winning
beauty queen
from age six to eighteen

The kind who seems
a cardboard cut-out
Southern stereotype
all big hair and hype
manicured nails and
well arranged...
assets
but in...

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Continuity
Inside the greenhouse
I laid out dead roses
And the smell of spent
nature made it clear
no waste of tears
as the sun bore down
on sterile beds.
Only the beauty...

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THE KISS OF YOUR LIFE
In the land of the dead hidden deep in your head
is a light no one else can see,
it's a spark but...

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Oh, Mother hear my Roar 

A roar of Thunder 

To stop the rain’s devour 

my flood of tears deprive color

Bouquets fade like the cinders of...

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The Beast of Burden 

These last words of this collection
Is salutation to mules, donkeys and horses?
They have disappeared from city life, yet without them
No city...

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Young cousins meet in a great combo
                Moons and stars...

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Today is your birthday,
On this special day,
i wish you all the very best, 	
all the happiness you can ever have 
and may you be blessed...

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Let history be the guidelines of our time to remain united.
Our border in the region is only if we do not go visit our neighborhood.
There...

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Have you ever written anything without sub combing to tears ?
        
    My Family portrait...

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