Happiness Familiar Poems

My Halloween Kitty (written 10/11/2020) free verse

I had a familiar named Callie
She was born on Halloween.

Feral siblings abandoned at my door.
I took the whole litter...

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"I know the land where the lemon-trees flower,
I know where it is, 
and I'll take you there, 
Because you're my one and only lover.

 I...

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Come let's dig deep into Mother's  tale.
her border is the immaculate finger of the sky,
Beside this seashore was her flower taken.
under the rippled moon...

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Most look at the cover and never bother to open the book
What a way to go through life, everyone they meet judged at first look
Their...

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I’ve a vast store of mem’ries about Chicago
as I’ve lived there for a couple of years
helping out in the parish of many immigrants,
especially Mexicans and...

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Hello there, most familiar face,
Most treasured recognition.

I find you, and see you, 
And in doing so really
See what I look upon.
And in knowing this, I...

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Today I hear the songs
That I used to play
An old sweet melody 
That I keep here to stay
In every note and in every rhyme
It’s like...

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I wake in the mornings
Just what do i see,
Many children sleeping
They are all around me.

There are some in the girl's room
They are in the boy's...

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I was quiescent and reposing on a wooden chair

to a faraway distance the vista seemed nothing.

I was engrossedly thoughtful in an empty stare;

In this somber...

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That familar brown-eyed boy
climbed the cliff the balmy hill
with his reversed red cap
and if it slipped off,
he'd pull it down his fair
strends of curly hair
while...

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