August
...since early childhood
since the early beginning
August is hot month
holiday season
no school playing traveling
I love August month
winter southern hemisphere
name to honor Augustus
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Categories:
early childhood, august,
Form: Other
Gratitude still in my heart
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My early childhood was great, I was the first born.
My mother had five children after me so I mostly remember
spending lots of time with my doting grandmother
who kept me busy learning to sew & ...
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Categories:
early childhood, appreciation, child, childhood, grandmother,
Form: Free verse
My Hairied History
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Day one out of the womb – had a full crop of hair,
black like my daddy’s (it later went more fair).
Early childhood – Mom kept my brown hair short
because I’d twist it into knots. What a silly...
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Categories:
early childhood, growth, hair,
Form: Other
Who I Am
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Who I am, Lord?
You know me more than I know me
for You see and understand the part or
side of me, I do not.
I was nurtured with love, attentive care in my...
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Categories:
early childhood, character, faith, me,
Form: Verse
Don't Throw Them to the Wolves
...We have a choice,
On how many children will turn out,
And by throwing the parents under a bus,
For the Wolves and Jackals to fight over,
The outcome for the children will always be the same.
W...
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Categories:
early childhood, appreciation, baptism, birth, childhood,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
When we think of adoption
...When we think of adoption,
We seldom see it through the eyes of a child,
Too often blinded by our own egos,
Too often carried away on cloud nine,
Expectations galore,
Plans already in place,
O...
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Categories:
early childhood, age, analogy, appreciation, august,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
the shadow self wants to dance
...i’m here, nor there, sometimes everywhere
a storm brewing
inside i’m darker
i’ve sailed these seas before
repetition becomes habit
take me back to simpler times
an early childhood memory...
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Categories:
early childhood, age, angst, anxiety, dark,
Form: Free verse
Enduring Part Two of Illness Journey Poems
...*** ENDURING ***
(A Part Two about my recent illness, following “Lunacy Loo Flies.”
Fear
Stepped into the holes of my weakness
To impede my pace to recovery,
Absorbing the basic radiant lig...
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Categories:
early childhood, character, faith, fear, health,
Form: Prose
Answer To Jack Ellisons-A Really Talented Old Soul
...Talented in closing every door
and drawer left open by my spouse.
Those beastly eyes from childhood;
doors and drawers under the bed, too.
Talented in tripping and spilling,
splashing and cont...
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Categories:
early childhood, humor,
Form: Free verse
Gay Or Straight Or Anything In Between
...Thirty years working as an Early Childhood teacher,
With spells working with children of all ages,
Including teenagers with messed up lives,
Has taught me that gay or straight,
Or anything in bet...
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Categories:
early childhood, age, appreciation, baptism, care,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
The Coal Man Cometh
...About the end of times when
Carts were hauled by Shires,
Coal was king and homes
Were heated by open fires,
A seemingly huge dark figure
From my early childhood days
As he drove his horse and c...
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Categories:
early childhood, change, history, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Do Nothing, It's All Done Anyway
...A small childish event
slips through an unguarded moment once more,
then a teenage grudge nudges my ego
demanding some resolution.
Big Foot is tearing up the woods.
The interstellar aliens wan...
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Categories:
early childhood, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The New Generation of Wanna Be High Flyers
...When I was young I thought I thought I could Fly,
Off the roof of the garage without a jet pack.
Life experience taught me different.
But even when only four I knew I could not get to the top of...
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Categories:
early childhood, age, allusion, baptism, bible,
Form: Burlesque
Why I Am Here
...At the Planet Gym
embodying my best business
when suddenly I wonder
Why am I here?
repeats
and repeats
in my wandering ear
And what magic
might appear
Isn't that *****?
Not WHY am I h...
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Categories:
early childhood, health, humor, integrity, peace,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Beneath the Rainbow Part Two
...Reverting to an early childhood spell,
when rainbows had this fascination for me,
and still do much to my delight,
wonder in the skyline boondocks,
hoop of lavish colour one can dream of,
fan...
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Categories:
early childhood, art, beautiful, beauty, care,
Form: Haibun
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