Niece Family Poems

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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What kind of slime ball are you dating? She asked her niece.
The kind of slime ball that used to be married to you, 
her niece...

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My Great Niece Brene’e

While sorting through family pictures today
I saw one of my great nieces named Brene’e
Her thoughts appeared to be so very far away
I...

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Hip hip hurray it’s our Christmas soirée
With Georgia and Mark and Hugh and Ray
This is the only time we meet
To kiss and hug and meet...

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it’s abysmal down the way
these days
 
but the only path

is through
 
they say
 

an intruder in the midst
 
blowing his cold still drip 
 
into...

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How To Listen

Always wanted to talk to you mom and dad,
I never knew what to say.
I tried to listen to your advice,
But couldn't pay attention...

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My driveway is packed with the cars
of friends and family,
chips put out, and the little ones
are running joyously.

A cooler filled up with bag ice
keeps cold...

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Twenty two years had passed  by

She blinked, and a lifetime had passed

She started this job as a lark

She never thought it would last

Two husbands...

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