School Loneliness Poems

It wasn’t the life she wanted.
This life drained the light from her eyes,
Turning them to deep gray circles,
Her voice lost its tone,
She lost herself.
Mothering was...

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to and fro, the winding roads, noise and din,
laughing some, some in tears wave to their kin,
fresh faces, childhood dreams, away they go,
count them in,...

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A crumbling cabin, a jungle deep,
An old soldier trudging by,
Imagining he heard, in the breeze,
A ghostly, wounded sigh.

This elder sat 'neath a mangrove
To ease his...

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The words in my title, on my page. Meixd.
Twisting around like a tornado.
Cannot read a single letter.
Words jumbled up. Askew
My paper tangled and coiled.
Not and...

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Remember the good times
When the school bells chime
We had the time of our lives
Now, I feel so alive, I can survive 

Our love is as...

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Time crawled silently on soft paws.
After years of anxious waiting,
Our little nest became alive, 
With childish pranks and prattles
Two adorable boys ran round playfully,
Making our...

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on the bus ride home
i dream of my parents
i pass by my grade school
i make enemies with the boy sitting across from me
i contemplate the...

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Sitting surrounded amidst the heap, 

Like a gale or like a storm 
They come every year every month 
All the cheer they sweep aside 
All...

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The Last

The last one... of anything 
does not automatically make it 
better, or worse... 
only that it is the last.

The best for last, 
is often...

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Morning’s first frost
Ghost sprawled to lawns

Horizon sun
Snowman’s head rolled from fog

The backs of deer
Cut atop the cropped bean fields
Like circling shark fins

On the way
To my...

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The Letter         

A young man strolled along the waterfront,
His mind and heart at ease.
Said an old man,...

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Sittin’ in th’ saddle. Gotta soon skedaddle.
School marm says she’ll tattle. Sheriff wants a battle.
Kissed her on the cheek jes’ to git a li’l peek...

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Hello again

I'm sorry I haven't been writing as much
I've been ripping out a myriad of my musings
like petals from their flowers
crumpling them up & discarding...

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Shadows of Daylight

I walk up and down the isles, 
of the grocery store. 
I see things missing, 
and large gaps...,
in the background, 
of our day,...

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Clarence Goddard, Harvey Bell, Virgil Barnes and I met for coffee every day for close to forty years.
I was a school janitor...Virgil was a farmer...Harvey...

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