Long Absented Poems

Inexplicable blessing luckily
avoiding potentially grim fate
finds yours truly coming to grips,
how afterlife did not accommodate

the missus, and/or myself unwittingly
loved ones would never acclimate
reality of our permanent absence,
thus existence all the more I appreciate
and attempt poetically...

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I lie - what wife mine’d been saying (our solidarity betraying)
Was in fact much more dismaying: “Why have you not come before?
From our lives you’ve been absented – with your coming, I’m contented.”
Would I could...

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I waited for her with tears in my eyes
and stayed until I couldn’t see the stars
at last to bed I went with my face in gloom
so sad and melancholic i cried in my doom
I long...

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Another day ends with insipid sun
One more uncertain season
Another month ebbs slowly invariably gone
One more uninteresting month another reason

Each bulb impressively pushing old soil up
So absented from every winter irritation 
The orchestrated plants unite drinking...

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Discovered:  Two Ibis at the edge of the lake 
in compatible company of four Canadian Geese
who've absented the gaggle of twenty or more,
daily in command of our grassy slope where they 
come to feed,...

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You drew our names from your deep past
I've never questioned why you did so.
From God, a burden, for you was cast
And absented years caused it to grow.

God allowed me to view your life's change
How you'd...

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deeply, as i sit, i look far beyond
there exists a whole time before now
knowing, or not what's come upon
i can't seem to recall it somehow

your name, your place, your very face
in my existence mean so...

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Has Been-Do Again

Poorly painted-Thoroughly tainted

Currently consented-Mind absented

Body Becoming-Up summing

Totally Theatrical-Some Sabbatical

Currently incredulous-Pretty Propitious

Enduring end-Should suspend

Could Do-Can You

On display-total dismay

People prevaricated-Ultimately uneducated

Poem preparing-Started sharing

Up dried-So satisfied.

Write more-What for

Rhyming quadruplet-Should let

Four words-New nerds.

Ho ho-Oh no.

My new style...

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After a brief illness, some dry toast
and the turgid sloshing of rehashed thoughts.

Slowly the former becomes the new now.
I bathe in new invigorating light.

This is how we recreate our world;
with carefully paced electro-chemical reactions,
brittle notions...

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