Beach Husband Poems

     Wish we were just married.
     My trusting head upon your shoulder.
     When...

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While attempting going to sleep after midnight...

December 27th, 2023,
the missus pounded mine posterior
(she played paddywhack 
on me blimey buttucks)
not only causing contusion, 
but flaying percussive...

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Your love is like a river peaceful and deep, 
like a secret I just can’t keep, like the shearing of a sheep,
like taking a leap,...

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Autumn’s now here, waves lap the shore.

Your strong, warm, bronzed hand holds mine .

Our daughter, grown, loves us forever more.

Our grandson, now a teen, for...

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Sidewalks

We walked along the sidewalks
that paralleled the beach,
the ocean roaring in the distance
just beyond the soft sands,
an echo of all the waves
that have ever touched...

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I hear you laughing
you feel my passion
you feel my grip
in your hands

The tides mesmerize
I lift you high
leaving behind
footprints in the sand...

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Jupiter and Venus meld like two canaries
Kissing in late February
In a black gap
Between mountainous sparkling beach hotels

As if
The planets have privacy in their own city...

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The pink polka-dot nightgown,                     ...

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Freedom 

I can go outside. 
I can go inside. 
I can climb a mountain, 
or swim in the sea. 

Freedom. 

I am free....

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New Shoes

"Grandpa, my shoes are too small, 
or maybe my feet or too big?"

"You are going to be ten foot tall, 
if you don't stop...

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Sheila heard that her husband was on his sailboat.
He is with another woman in the middle of the afternoon?
He was supposed to be at work.
Several...

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I was shaken from my bed,                   ...

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It was coming up on your thirtieth birthday,                 ...

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Illuminations of Wonder and Warmth 
from the sky’s black velvet cloak  
points of light emanate         ...

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The cedar dock splinters out to the moon's shine
Like the second hand ticking along
A white-faced clock
Drawing in loose boats and green moths
To its sweep of...

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