Death December Poems

Did you dance on 
the porch this morning
avoiding the invisible 
ice and the broken glass?
Could you see 
through the smoky hat’s brim?
In your mind you...

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I want you to ponder and ruminate
About how dark it gets when it's late
When the clouds cover the moon
And the sun won't be rising soon,
That's...

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Sky filters through scant woods
printing a cold sunlight on shadowed tree trunks.

Only December has this light,
it both scours and forages,
it scythes away all heaped-up flotsam.
A...

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When I say that you were a wonderful mother and person, I'm being sincere.
The memory of the last Christmas that we shared is something I...

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Giving gifts ~ required boxes are filled ...

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Time it catches up
To all of us I guess
You can try to avoid it
Or enjoy it like the rest
No matter what you try 
Father time...

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When December hit on that one beautiful Sunday it snowed.
Children were quite perplexed , adults too seemed excited.
It was the day marked in the calendar...

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The meanest man in town,
That everybody feared.
Shot anybody down,
When anybody neared.

The scourge of the West,
And the ultimate sinner.
The Devil gets the best,
From Dirty Dick Skinner.

Had...

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It’s not for the mere frail 
this cautionary tale 
of wicked yuletide fright 
Do come inside
and sit hearthside
on this dark and snowy night 

A chilling...

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Why did you have to leave
Just when snow was falling?
Couldn’t you have waited            ...

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2022 Polar Vortex - Across Wide Band Of North America

Power outage here within 
mine happy hunting grounds 
(as well the ghosts of Lenni Lenape),
viz Perkiomen...

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Angel of mercy please intercede

Weakest most lame specimen
among human breed
control of my life I willingly concede
wordless son of a gun fires off 
following capricious poetic...

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Almost three years ago from today December 20th, 2022

self quarantined misanthrope...
pitched into purgatory wham!

Ably cane resign eternal damnation (mine)
courtesy devil specially engraved telegram
prestidigitation found me...

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The pink polka-dot nightgown,                     ...

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An album filled with photographs
of Christmas Day five years ago.
I still see smiles and hear the laughs
when my mom's face was all aglow,
now interred beneath...

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