Pain 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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Cousin I miss you and we had a great ball
One thing I can say is that we enjoyed it all
I'm sorry that I couldn't bare...

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We bereaved-
Loved our child since she was conceived. 
Doctors declare she was diseased. 
We sneezed and she was seized. 
It’s hard to breathe; I don’t...

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Dearest Cousin Madelyn,


Let’s sit in the rowboat, near the dawn’s verdant shore.
Where a squirrel sits under the Oak, that we once...so adored!


We can discuss music,...

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Amit was sat in the water and her little sister was watching
She came to him and asked “what are you doing brother?”
Amit was amazed because...

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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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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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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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Because I’ve got six cousins, 
I don’t know what to do,
I got a new gazebo,
But that will not see us through.
I know that we can’t...

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I spent my day shopping with Ruby
              (I find her an absolute...

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After being together for years in this marriage
The same old routine seems to be wearing thin
Something was needed to spark up the flame
I would fall...

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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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But he is my cousin I insisted 
He would not have done that
He is a great guy I said. 
He is reliable and dependable.
There is...

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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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