Faith Cousin Poems

Some hearts will go on, 
Braving the storms, the pain,
Even though you’re gone,
You’re there in ways I can’t explain.

Some of those who believe,
Will speak of...

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Said the pea of pupil, "I don't like the eye"
And so like faith, the universe implored, Y?
Does not the eye herald pupil?
Does not the eye...

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Growing UP

Grandpa was a good man. 
I loved him my whole life. 
However, there is a question 
in my mind... ??? 

When I was very...

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I am terrified I will die, Wesley said. It is raining.
Rain does not usually kill people, I replied.
But lightning can, and thunder is scary.
Lightning has...

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In the tone of shadows 
a sorrow felt 
thoughts take flight 
tomorrow is in past sight

destructions dark flower 
bloom into flame marks 
the hour out...

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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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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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Her world is wondrous,

Her heart blessed with grace,

There are no boundaries
	to her courage
		and faith

Transcends her -

She knows
	she is
		loved....

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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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What the Stars Told Abraham (How to see like God)

Beloved, we wish you are right in what you write -
We are sworn to the truth...

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COUSIN BETTY

Thank you, cousin Betty, for memories so dear;
We share each one so special as we are gathered here.
The swimming pool, the tree house, the...

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TODAY'S FAMILY

Humans are of One kind,
*****Sapiens, Human beings.

They do no Run as a Pack
As other beings do.

They move as Families
On this dear earth

And ...

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They say the sun shines on the skin of a goddess her hair dark filled with flowers and her skin of silk,
When you see her...

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