Childhood Cousin Poems

In childhood days of laughter and play,
Side by side, we'd dance and sway.
Siblings bound by love so true,
Together in all that we'd pursue.

Through schoolyard antics...

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My cousin Mike asked my dad, “can Bill stay”?
“It’s fine with me if your dad says okay.”
“If Bill will work to earn spending money
a couple...

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Too many thoughts were assaulting me,
Paralyzing my mind, body, spirit, and soul.
They overwhelmed me with the anxious demands of now.

As I wrap myself in a...

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Tanka

Marilyn Monroe
I loved her greatly
I wedded a blond
She spoke with a scouser accent 
When her roots turned russet.

Arm dealers look out
When walking on your green...

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I came sneaking around to see what I could see,                  I saw you long before you saw...

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We were children of the 50s and early 60s, first of the boomers.
Our parents knew of wars and more wars, much lack, and hard work.
They...

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THE OLD-FASHIONED DISCIPLINE
 (Shenendoah Valley, 1951)

One summer afternoon
when summer wheat was high
--most already taken in--
and clouds were like lost sheep
drifting over the mountains,
my uncle-- for...

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There are photos of our childhood
                   ...

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I love how you were my first friend
Right after I came into this world.
I love how you and I had fun
Until the end of our...

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A loving cousin brother,
Nongmaithem Manihar Singh ,
maternal cousin 
decades not seen
after his death I went
to his house at Yairipok Bazar
to attend his Asti Sanchay.

That country...

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Mama and Granny
Herded children through the kitchen
Out the screen door, to the yard
Where we wouldn’t be underfoot

Cousins all brown from summer
Sun baking soft skin and...

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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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It's raining here off season,
but no thunder visible in the sky.
Everything happens without reason,
I don't understand why.
The walls stare at me with virtual eyes,
I stare...

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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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“A cousin is a little bit of childhood that cannot be lost”
             ...

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