Niece Family Poems

I knew you—
When your hands cradled endless dreams
Not plastic boxes with silver screens
When your only bio was scribbled in crayons
Beneath drawings of skies pink or...

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My niece Schades while just now
on video call

Said something to me so very profound
way beyond her tender age and year's

Why is it we are always...

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As I sit here thinking of what I could have done
Many things have come to my mind
Should I have called her more often
Should I have...

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They sit in the corner by themselves
They sit and watch the day turn into Darkness
Their eyes glazed over in their head
There is a lifelessness within...

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Women in my family . . . 
who have inspired me in life;
from childhood I felt so loved.
My mom was all kindness;
now, in my...

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Spirits wander in and wander out
met usually with a painful shout
They give me chills but also wonder
are they real or tales from dark under?

This story...

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This is a story about an uncle…and two things that make him great.
The first would be his patience…his ability to wait.

The second: his sister’s daughter...

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Pumpkin Angel

My little Pumpkin Angel
Is what I call Shalina Jean
She is a sweet niece of mine
Who was born on Halloween
She has a smile filled with...

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Let me walk along the velvet beach,
collecting shells upon crushed stretch.
Sun rearing-up a nine year old — teach 
her to be happy, care-free, an oceanic...

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I'm off on the beaten path
with Little Rosey in my grasp

There's palm fronds like a giant clock,
twenty hands instead of two
And there's the honeysuckle bush
that...

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A desert lake is a perfect 
mirror of the bluest sky
that everyone has ever seen,
it wants to trade place and expect
to be a part of...

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BEYOND ME

The latter part of twenty twenty was promising
with the Corona vaccine, that I was looking
forward with twenty twenty one, anticipating
slowing down of the pandemic...

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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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Your parents gave me the news at Wilton's Music Hall
a place of joy and drunkenness
Laurel and Hardy, Hetty King, Marie Lloyd and now
A Great Aunt.
A...

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My Nieces and Nephews 

This is just a little rhyme, 
That will make more sense in time, 
A little keepsake from my heart to yours,
To...

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