Vision
...The sadness,
Of never being able to see,
The rainbow hues of the world,
Like a lock to a key,
Are the couleurs to the world,
And seeing someone's face light up with joy,
Of only being able to f...
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Categories:
harlan, senses,
Form: Free verse
My Night On Thunder Road - a Parody
...A profession that's not the norm.
It borders on the absurd.
In the mountains and down the hollers,
powerful engines could be heard.
I decided to try something new.
Put my driving skills to the...
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Categories:
harlan, adventure,
Form: Rhyme
Aunt Sara Catherine
...AUNT SARA CATHERINE
Each Southern breakfast in your kitchen
smelled of fried apples, cornbread,
and country biscuits
with all the fixings.
Your grown sons came over every day
to eat at your...
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Categories:
harlan, blessing, care, confidence, devotion,
Form: Rhyme
Searching For a Shelter
...The healing hands of time
Can't mend it.... when it's in the blood
The morning sun can't kiss away the rain
When there's been a flood
Destiny has dealt me.....
Another losing hand...
'Looks l...
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Categories:
harlan, anger, blue, cry, grief,
Form: Lyric
Harlan's Holler
...~ Harlan’s Holler ~
Dean Kuch
©2014
The locals say, in the light of day
one can visit Harlan’s Holler,
stay on the path
don't incite the wrath
of the man ...
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Categories:
harlan, dark, evil, fear, grief,
Form: Prose Poetry
Silent Killer
...It courses through the blood
hidden from view it seeks out
the T-cells attaching itself
it silently goes to work
Invading and taking over
not caring if it's host
be a young person or old
killing of ...
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Categories:
harlan, death, murder,
Form: Free verse