Latchkey Poems - Poems about Latchkey

...A bird that dips and wavers Over lone waters round, Then with a cry that quavers Is gone—a spectral sound. — Cale Young Rice Sopping wet, the organ floats, flounders in one o......

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...Although my sister and I are not related by blood, we are as close as any two humans can get outside the bond of marriage. It started when at the age of six, my own mother placed me with this fam......

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...Tis brisk, this love, that rounds her abs with haste. With dawn of quick pursuit, she trembles light. His eyes, they stroke the lamb, her wooly-chaste. Her long locks, bind, grab hold the sun, exc......

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... Gen X or the MTV generation. See a big growth in the Dept. of education. A generation of latchkey Kids home alone. Rocky hits the box office, With Sylvester Stallone.......

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...A woman left for work. Her child went to school. A latchkey kid, her daughter that day got straight home from school, aware of every rule to not let strangers in no matter what. A neighbor said......

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...A definite bonehead moment since revised when das scribe made laughing stock of himself (circa ~ 8:30 post meridiem December twenty eighth, 2022). A retrospective account revisited court......

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...There's cobalt clouds across the sun A nice cool breeze moves the oak tree Somewhere on earth, someone buys a gun All the while, the sun shines with glee Jesus loves all Though some......

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... ~ ~ ~ ~ Looking up I was so awestruck, suddenly my muse was unstuck; oh windstorm_ I saw a huge flock of bluebirds, singing a song so long unheard; oh rainstorm_ I got ou......

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...Confinement - I carry my prison with me no bounds or bars or barriers can equal the breadth of my bondage its burning poison possesses marrow and mind squeezing the emotion......

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...Mandated this faux gremlin explorer (alias Cliff Ford) donning reinforced rubber baby buggy bumpers to dodge any errant wild jaguar, ram, thunder bird, bee in blue bonnet hood lamb, et cetera ......

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...She stands at the barbed-wire fence Her chest heaves up and down Her picture is taken ~ dogs bark They are ferocious The gate in the middle creaks open admitting her It slams shut be......

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...HAND OF GOD The deluge came like splattered tears, palm’s held out to see if it was real. Hemlines lifted as feet kicked against the water. The scourge of cold could be felt on thei......

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...A faint glow dribbles 'neath his door, and clamours of construction mutter, bellow and insinuate, his broken voice belies an old man struggling with a stutter. He comes and goes in dead of ni......

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...A faint glow dribbles 'neath his door, and clamours of construction mutter, bellow and insinuate, his broken voice belies an old man struggling with a stutter. He comes and goes in dead of ni......

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......inspired by the performance piece 'What's He Building In There?' by Tom Waits A green glow dribbles 'neath his door, and clamors of construction mutter, bellow and insinuate, his broke......

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