Hope Cousin Poems

You're the Ying to my Yang, 
My ride or die, 
The Celtic to my Rangers, 
A truly awesome guy.

I hope you know how much, 
I...

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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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You were so well-loved.
Your mother truly believed
You were an angel
With the loveliest of eyes
And always a smile so wide.

For K.K.T.
(July 2004 to May 2022)

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"There was...

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

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Loyalty brings even the fortified few to falter somnambulantly in succession
As if tranced to commit, their convictions are true yet skewed
The blind emotional outburst of...

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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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A treasured photo of a moment past
In which my arms a newborn baby lies
The love I feel now I hold her at last
As I gaze...

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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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Remember when you were a child, jumping up and down with glee
to see your mean cousin who always pretended to like you for about ten...

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I ask you why, and you reply with silence
Untreaded waters with no horizon
The ground trembles below my feet 
Tossed and turned, once more I ask...

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Laying my head back, eyes closing,
reminiscing, the years falling away into decades ago
to the 1950s at my grandparents' grand home
for Christmas.

It was a gracious dining...

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Deer Colette,

Thank u four the sweater. Eye did knot no it wood cost that much. It was hire than eye thought. Eye love it! U...

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You’re always in my thoughts Jitterbug,
Your memory will never fade.
We had so many great times together.
Fond memories that we made.
Remember when we went camping in...

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>Are the best things in life free?
By Stanley Russell Harris
The new mad Author
& Poetry Soup Honourably Mentioned

One of my cousin’s on Facebook one day.
Said the...

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