Mom Fate Poems

#8:  Time's Up

Renewed, a second, their forevermore,
a bobbing pin rethreads all in red threads,
the pedals are pressed up and down the floor,
the bobbing pin...

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Fourty six years since our lives collided,
on sand swept paths, mostly sunny, some blighted.
I was taking a hiatus from men.
You came to rent a room...

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Every now and then out of nowhere you come across
you discover…you find…a story that makes you believe again…
that there is hope for humankind:

A woman…addicted to...

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Working in a bookstore it’s easy to identify….
which books will bring a smile to the face…which ones bring a teardrop to the eye

But every now...

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Today on my walk…I’m thinking about destiny…I’m thinking a lot about fate…
I’m thinking about Nathaniel…a boy I never knew…whose parents called him Nate.

I only had...

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Just sitting down in my most visited space looking back with eyes wide open not closed viewing the scene again this time the life took...

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I’ve got it - woot! 
Well, we’ve (Lisa and I) have it. The Covid.
After living carefully serpentine lives - for the last half decade -...

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The seasick ache
where you hold your breath
serenade in the mix of catastrophe
and the bottomless pit of emptiness

when you're

nails deep in your scalp
gripfuls of hair and...

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I chose no other option,
But to make it all undone.
To give up on my effort,
Which I had put with all my heart.

I chose no other...

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A meeting of two moms can be a wonderful thing a meeting of two minds is a beautiful thing…

Shortly after we moved into our new...

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I love to tell the story
For, Jesus to receive glory
That ,when I thought I was alive
I was working on a barge boat
Twenty two years ago...

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Oh Ye Lil Bird
If ye could have only witnessed
The search of your mom's desire
To find a safe place to build a nest
With the finest twigs...

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Is it becoming apparent yet
That mankind wants to fly off earth in a jet
They are filled with so much pain and sorrow
For they direct there...

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It was Christmas Eve and I was at the airport,
Not a soul in sight, almost deserted, it was 10.00 pm,
Only two hours before Christmas day,
Perhaps...

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Enduring pain
Suffering nightmare
I thought I will gain 

Life was heaven 
Before I was sell
After marriage
It turn into hell

Prestige words bind my feeling
Everyday my heart started...

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