Forgiveness December Poems

Beneath the frozen dome of a late December, I learned with melancholy
That those who gave me wings are not the titans I summoned in my...

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IT'S TIME FOR CHRISTMAS
It's time for christmas
Let's all rejoice
Look to the heavens
Lift up your voice
Yes it's christmas time
For weak and strong
In a world that's gone...

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Giving gifts ~ required boxes are filled ...

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In times of adversity
With instability spreading into University,
With forgiveness at an all time low,
Where hope is a no show, 
Where we see only the worst...

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You might not remember; it was so long ago.
Our memories devise tricks to flush away pain.
But I walk here in the alleys of remorse
During the...

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Ours is a world of meanness, fear, and dissension
Filled with uncertainty, strife, and apprehension
A world fueled by selfish greed and profiteering
And false promises of those...

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The pink polka-dot nightgown,                     ...

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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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S eptember is for me

E leven cute flying bees

P ick the fruit from the big green tree

T he sunflowers need to flee

E verything to be...

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Cockleburs

Small green weeds, 
with little seed pots, 
that stick to your socks. 

They travel with you, 
to the next place, 
that God wants them to...

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Back in the Box

Empty packages, 
lots of paper, 
refolded for another year. 
Saved, again and again, 
generation after generation. 
Traditions, 
slowly getting too old, 
falling...

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One More Delivery

Please wait at the door. 
I told the man holding the package. 
He smiled, 
not unkindly, 
but as patiently as one might expect,...

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The Winter Hours

Cold is not my friend. 
It loves me, 
but it is not…
a mutual affair. 
Slowly, artfully, cruelly, 
my joints begin to freeze up....

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The Snow Falls

Softly my love, 
I watch every flake,
come slowly from no where, 
outside my vision, 
beyond the window boundaries,
magical…even whimsical…
the white soft “above”, 
to...

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Oh, Christmas, what can I say to you this year
  Over the years, you have taken me on a journey
 I never wanted you...

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