Home List Poems

These walls are broken, 
termites eaten, the bricks crumbling 
clay, the remains of dust.
was this ever a house, ? 
Their first fire extinct, 
it was...

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The Bucket List

Imagine if you will, a scene unlike any other,
Sipping Espresso daybreak, foothills of snow that smother.
Pavement Café in Zermatt, first patron of the...

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Phew,what a sudden calamity
          I have mere sixteen minutes to save my dearest possessions
  ...

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You ask if my home caught on fire and I only have sixteen minutes to gather those things that I treasure; what seven things would...

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I promise to love you
I promise to kiss your knees when you fall
I promise to hang every picture you make 
I promise to come home...

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TO:  My fellow Veterans and all my fellow Soupers 

Listed below are the titles to poems I have written over the years that pay...

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For those of you
in hiding
wearing a mask
and come home crying
for THOSE OF YOU
who work two shifts to come home
and know that you still can't pay...

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There's no way to go back, sometimes I wish there was,
we'd pluck out the highlights, just simply because;
I'm not going to give a catalogue, a...

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Santa's list
Picture by Alan L Boles

Santa... I don't want any toys
This year,
I've changed my mind!!!

Please...all I want is my daddy,

I've heard mummy crying,
And it makes...

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Santa's list
Picture by Alan L Boles

Santa... I don't want any toys
This year,
I've changed my mind!!!

Please...all I want is my daddy,

I've heard mummy crying,
And it makes...

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Santa's list

Santa... I don't want any toys
This year,
I've changed my mind!!!

Please...all I want is my daddy,

I've heard mummy crying,
And it makes me sad,

I've left a...

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I’m grateful for:

Not seeing any gratitude lists today because I’m usually not on them.
The pinch of a biting mosquito
The feverish temper of a hungover boss
The...

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He fancied himself Mr. Fixit for things that broke around the house.
He had a knack for screwing things up which aggravated his spouse.
His tool kit...

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The smell of baking bread
A welcome at the door,
That comfortable armchair-
Paintings on the wall,
Gran-kids coming to call,
No ceremony or fuss
Family and us-
Bibles & books abound,
His...

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HE IS LOVE

HE loves me so I should love others

If I want HIM to be patient with me
I should first work on being patient with...

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Scratch Trump Off My List

Trump's home has become
A catacomb, while on his
Head wears an orange dome.

Trump thinks that he is
Such a sweet thing, and to...

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Woman, you are most beautiful within you.
When you show wisdom that is treasured in your heart.
When you proclaim the truth to save lives.
When you give...

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I woke up this morning,
and then without warning,
I rolled off the bed,
soundly bumping my head.
That was just the beginning of what I call,
my most exasperating...

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I should eat healthy, I really should!  But life is too short for that.  Food, food, food, 

it chases away the blues, it...

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