Holiday Identity Poems

If you’ve read any of my delicious, hand-crafted vignettes and listened to us talk, you’ll know that my roommates and I are critical thinking swifties...

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Here in Central Ohio, when winter's chill descends, 
We celebrate for twelve whole days, our Yuletide dividends. 
Deep within the Buckeye land, where Aesculus genus...

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Two holidays extraordinary
    bookend a day - simple, ordinary
  How is that unfortunate day viewed
    sandwiched between the...

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Traveling the mountains of Disneyland
        Much higher than those found in Ireland
      ...

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Rosy sunshades
By Michelle Morris
30/10/2022

You want me all to yourself
But wonder why I'm so reluctant
I don't even get to have me all to myself
Why should I...

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I thought today I could make it work

it wasn’t so much the sadness

as lightness

as bottled crocodiles and persimmon fungi

as broken arrows across the ascended 

the...

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Lupercalia
O! Yon Pagan festival Come on come all
Merry men named Valentine Two of which
One who was a priest in third century Rome
He whom defied Emperor...

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On holiday in Orkney in 2017
Visited a historical site 
“Four adults please”
Got three adults and a concession 

Concession? What???!!!
Who’s the concession?
There are no students 
Or...

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There you are my April Fool
You're meant to be as me
When you can say you're only truth
is that you're left to be

When only you can...

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Saint Patrick had downed a case of green beer
When it suddenly became crystal-clear
  That he was really a she
  Saint Patty he should...

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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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SOLDIER OF 9 LIVES

I never went to military school but am a soldier
Life taught me how to fight & now am older,
He schooled me to...

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I close my eyes
feel the sun on my face
hear the sounds of the sea
smell the cooking of Greek food
I lick my lips
all around the sounds...

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The Passing of Fear
A mark on the door…

It is so quiet here, 
I believe that I can hear a snake, 
meandering across the dirt road,...

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a house with the bottom up
thrown clothes, clutter, books everywhere
manuscripts, invoices
pencils, drawing boards

no guests
no holiday tables
just a shadow of last year

I went out and watched...

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