Birthday Introspection Poems

Changed past Lo, twas an low estate
A mark posted on my slate
Ebb of no esteem
Young fascinating dreams 

Of being married only a late teen of...

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IN MY LIFE SONG

October, my birthday month began
with one of John Lennon’s personal
song, In My Life in my head making
me think my luck of having...

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              Only Today’s Poems We Read?

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Here I am weary in my entreaties,
  there’s no one here but a man and his dog
alone among my rambling reveries
  and a...

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now the shadow pillars
are tearing down the sunday
ideas that didn't become facts
return in blocks to the brain
just like the facts
that should have remained just ideas
if...

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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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Framed moments zoom, a night of review
as vignettes glide on this mindscape
like scrapbook  leaves  brushed in violet
before moonlight’s  pause.
Every motion, every image...

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This one is for all the ladies who give up their priorities and career for their family. For the ladies who dedicate their lives in...

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In the cocoon lies a secret
A metaphorical preparation for life
And from the struggle emerges
The butterfly - one of the world’s most beautiful sights

Spreading its wings
Strong...

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File Number

364 was especially hard to deal with today. 
The worker made a check in the empty box. 
She used red ink. 

Wife beater, 
drinker,...

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Stop Killing My Country

Accused of political banter, 
to speak the words, God Bless, 
and America in the same sentence. 
Bespeaking the fear, 
of being proud,...

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Used by the Muse

Here I sit, after the holidays. 
Everything is quiet, 
and waiting for the big party, 
to end the year. 

Struggling on page...

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Pièce De Résistance Lauded...

Ninety years April 9th 1929
after maiden USA début
hoop fully more than a few
remain, a filial connection
I can cultivate and hew

cuz, the ghost...

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Our Day of Birth

The speed of life 
takes us by surprise, 
that glimmer in us
projects, through twinkling eyes.

That knowing in us
not yet ripe, unseen,
breeds in...

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