“ My son is now fourteen, and from the moment he was born, I understood that forevermore my heart would be walking around outside my body.”
Dani Shapiro
His first room was inside my womb
Tiny feet kicking strong night and day
Breastfed him and he quickly blooms
Into an independent soul by grace
Watching him mature is a great cure
For anyone questioning life goals
Children are a blessing uniquely pure
Teaching you as you learn guide soul
He may be a man of thirty years dear
Still my child so proud to be his mother
No longer a minor with a future clear
Heart of love for him like no other
I await his children and I pray
They know me as a fun grandma
Look upon sweet faces night or day
Bequest love in heart that gives pause
Heart embraces unconditional truth
Forevermore love is anointed in you
Testa
Undone work
On a corner
Passing daylight
Timing in my afterlight
Caught between no canvas Pietro
Illustrations disappearance
Two see no other rain in sight
We passed true as our ghost lept
Fide et Amore
By faith in love
Fidelity as anul
Being Borrowed
For Film
By Another Woman
When We Come Aboard
A Military waited
In grasses tan, too low
Asnt in the future
Her return, ran from more
And in our time
All stood wide
Armed in rejection
Of a betters letters, above alls door
Oh stormy night
Dani Woodward,
Can we write tonight?
The nights editor
In The Times
Curtains of light kid,
Fall on my fold
Before you turn it in
Under the evacuation
She appears
It's easy cloth I fold for you lady
He's edited headlines besides it once
She's missed page before
Also why your wise.
Copyright © kevin mathenia | Year Posted 2025
Good Scene Sasha
A Military waited
In grasses tan, too low
Asnt in the future
Her return, ran from more
And in our time
All stood wide
Armed in rejection
Of a betters letters, above alls door
Oh stormy night
Dani Woodward,
Can we write tonight?
The nights editor
In The Times
Curtains of light kid,
Fall on my fold
Before you turn it in
Under the evacuation
She sppears
It's easy cloth I fold for you lady
He's edited headlines besides it once
She's missed page before
Also why your wise.
Is there anybody out there
I can only see my face in the forefront preflection
Of the passed, away on vacation until all comes cross
Is she really on the page or on the screen an AI model
Stockings stocking to no avail
Preferably a real lady, married, a couple of kids, nah
He enters the mainstream understanding orifices procession
Pro to nothing concrete all absolutes don't exist
Clean and not heard
The genius in him should talk to the mirror
Instead of a gun shot plying the thought of Gmail account
Accessible bypass crude
Why sense the tasteful callipyge stragglers told too
In her scent he can find a thousand Dani Daniels Krissy Lynn Jane Marie, she'd just another troubadour old fantasy
Reality overweight overwhelms filly folly breads hvvgfnbdg
*** VV bukkake Bukowski travels by and nothing taken for granted Lego logorrhée Times Square sexshop where a dude speaks East Timorian does it really count what the guy said on the corner of the contents of the wall Pao chicken breast
Just about to launch a new career
Or maybe I should call it a hobby
Dani Spies has certainly caught my attention
With her mouth watering recipes
And easy step-by-step videos to help us along
I'm drooling all over the keyboard as I type
I'm always game to try something new
The payoff at the end is the ultimate reward
Now I hear some of you saying...
“Are you nutso!!! Aren't you kinda old
To be firing off in a new direction?”
My answer to that is, “I ain't dead am I?
I'm always ready for a new challenge!”
And boy, what a rewarding hobby... yum, yum!!!
I'll keep you posted as to how much weight I gain
(ie. One of the annoying side effects!)
Wish me luck all you nice people!
Next I'll have a show on PBS entitled
“Old Chefs Never Die
They Just Choke On Their Artichokes”
There Were Kisses
By Franklin Price
03/29/2022
When Barbara passed, it was a blur
I cannot remember all
Dani held her hand with me
When God made the final call
I thought I did not kiss her
Did not touch her lips goodbye
I could not help but question this
Could not help but wonder why
I wrote about this earlier
Questioning through tears that flowed
About the wife, whom I had lost
Who was gone from my life's road
When daughter Dani read that poem
She recalled that I was nice
She recalled that I had kissed her
Was not only once, but twice.
When Barbara was still with us
She saw me kiss her on the lips
Then on the forehead ,when she passed,
Those memories, for me, were blips
I thank God for Dani every day.
That she recalled there was a kiss
That she was there beside me
Still in my life to bring me bliss
Thank you God, that she's my daughter
I pray to you on every day
That you'll guide her and protect her
As she moves along the way.
I Did Not Kiss You Goodbye
By Franklin Price
03/27/2022
I did not kiss you goodbye
On the evening that you died
It has not ceased to bother me
If I said, I would have lied
I was saddened by self pity
That I was being left behind
That was not supposed to happen
It had never crossed my mind
Our daughter Dani and myself
Were holding on to you
When the Lord took you to Heaven
And your life on Earth was through
A calmness overtook us
Peace and sorrow in our head
Your soul had gone to Glory
Your body left there in the bed
The priest came soon thereafter
Said his last words over you
That evening had become a blur
What was I supposed to do?
Hospice called the mortuary
Who took the body left, away
All of this within a hour
At least it seemed so on that day
I realized, I had not kissed you,
As God took you by the hand
I said the words, “I love you”
I pray to God you understand
That we're only separated
Until we meet again on high
I'll kiss your lips again in glory
When I leave life by and by
Imagination
(see images in the clouds)
By Franklin Price
Dani, thanks for the inspiration
10/17/2015
Imagination often challenged
By the clouds up in the sky
The images contained therein
Are searched for by the eye
Imagination tries to leave us
As we move on up in age
Images in clouds no challenge
Will not provide a living wage
Imagination is what made us
Took us along the way
How we used and managed it
Put us where we are today
If imagination leaves us
New adventures do not glean
Life becomes a boring place
Like none other we have seen
Should always think, “where will I be?”
In a month or in a year
And imagine your existence
And see that image clear
Then work to make it happen
That's how we got to where we are
A year is not so very long
We can be our own bright star
So continue to imagine
It will help you keep some youth
Even though you're getting older
And longer in the tooth
Today is Your Birthday
By Franklin Price
(to Dani on her 47th birthday)
7/26/2015
Today is your birthday
So please celebrate
Hope your moving is finished
of your home goods and freight
Hope you're making some time
and you're happy to see
these great birthday greetings
from your mother and me
We're really quite proud
of the woman we raised
Sing your praises loud
Though we're a little bit crazed
Can't figure out
How you're older than us
but we're glad that you made it
And won't make a fuss
We won't ask you questions
won't ask your advice
Have a wonderful birthday
We hope it's real nice
Love from mom and dad
on this day of your birth
It's a much better place
with you here on this earth.
Just about to launch a new career
Or maybe I should call it a hobby
Dani Spies has certainly caught my attention
With her mouth watering recipes
And easy step-by-step videos to help us along
I'm drooling all over the keyboard as I type
I'm always game to try something new
And of course the payoff at the end is the ultimate reward
Now I hear some of you saying...
"Are you nutso!!! Aren't you kinda old
To be firing off in a new direction?"
My answer to that is this, "I ain't dead am I?
I'm always ready for a new challenge!"
And man, what a rewarding hobby... yum, yum!!!
I'll keep you posted as to how much weight I gain
(ie. one of the annoying side effects!)
Wish me luck all you nice people!
Next thing you know, I'll have my own show on PBS
Entitled "Old Chefs Never Die
They Just Choke On Their Artichokes"
© Jack Ellison 2014
You brought us laugher, you brought us light we could not ask for more
Your memory is all we have, for now your spirit soars
Up in the heavens you will watch, and guard us everyday
You will help and guide the ones you love and help them on their way
You blessed us with friendship, loyalty and love
And though your gone your never far, watching from above.
Though you can not be with us, your love and hope is here
And for that we thank you Dani, we know your always near
Majoring in school as a biology chemist
Melanie finds joy conducting experiments
Taking full time units at Butte College
Learning, studying, gaining knowledge
Not surprised if her thing for frogs and tortoise
Came from having to dissect them on purpose
Hours spent in the lab looking for an answer
Maybe one day she’ll find a cure for cancer
Her wit is dry, amusing to her friends
Joking about chemical smells on her hands
Her expressions, delivery, timing are superb
Her humor is unique like nothing ever heard
Friday night, band practice is heaven
Playing bass guitar with Dani and Kevin
Close friends on Sunday’s gather for lunch
Downtown café, champagne brunch
Go Green is her mantra, her life legacy
Earth conscious and clean is her tendency
Protect the environment, always recycle
Choose to not drive, ride a bicycle
At twenty two, she wants to have a voice
Humboldt State is her college of choice
She loves nature, living among the trees
The rain, the mountains, falling leaves
Her future looks nothing less than great
Able to work long hours and stay up late
Her gift is her humor, her mind, her resilience
She has what counts, wit and brilliance
Color rose's
black and leave them on my doorstep
Light's out
you think I'm worried you will kill me tonight
I'm not
giving anything up and I moved up to the next town
Lastly
I'm never backing down from my crown
not you
Dani it's not you I'm talking about so you don't have care anymore
oh no
you think you will find me?
well Nick you can try me but my friend I'm not going back
Dude you
just can't get enough my sickness from above is you?
good bye
guy you can try but that girl will see your inside
your the bad guy
and no one wants to see
all the bad thing we have done- but please
I'm out- trouble will find you I'm done breaking the laws
Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor.
Good ol' Ludwig
belts out his wicked speel.
I read some Bukowski,
I put it aside,
I listen
I think,
How many lives
does the average man live
before he dies?
Some live too many
Some live none at all
Some live only one,
often living none as well.
I would draw
but there is nothing to draw
I would paint
but there is nothing to paint
All that exists right now
is my pencil, my notebook,
my wish to live before my innards die,
my thoughts of Dani,
and, of course,
Good ol' Ludwig.
I may be no Rambling Poet
I may not be the one-you know it!
I may be no Dani Sousa
I may be the one to lose her
I do have something to say.
I am sure of this:
I Will not be as great a poet as others
But I Will be the one to win the one I love back
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