Long Cedar chest Poems

Look past
the faded little girl    braids and bows 
in a       polaroid picture
buttery yellow skirt 
curtsying     a smile
frog prince 
imprisoned   ...

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Sitting at the very top of my closet,
a small cedar chest, with treasures I did deposit. 
It was Christmas gift my sweet cousin gave,
for years it has sat there, as if in a grave!
With broken...

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---A big mistake and a parallel universe 
School days filled with endangered species cumulonimbus inchworms by the feet 
And whale songs sung in the deep waters
After the fire whirlpools of six degrees of separation
Are ruby...

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Sweet memories folded inside Grandma's quilts and afghans
A cedar chest of forgotten trinkets caressed in my hands

This treasure trove holds a young girls dreams of love
A drop in Heaven's showers raining from above

Every drop gathers...

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Music fills the air, as the  radio plays
Letting go of memories, bringing back forgotten faces
Daddy took that photograph...a captured you, a smiling trace
A magic moment....a magic day...
You gave me your cameo, that birthday in...

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 The stars do shine and twinkle
A glimmer and gleam of hope
But the pollution has taken over
The obnoxious smog has grown far too strong
My eyes cannot find the light anymore
So I’ll dust off my glasses
And...

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‘Twas a child’s game of hide and seek,
My brother’s turn to count.
Where could I hide he would not look,
Thus settle our account?

Our mother’s room, her closet, No!
He’ll check there first of all.
The bathroom, No! I...

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I can still remember an old beau,
A girlfriend wanted me to meet,
He was much older than I,
But played the piano oh so sweet.

He owned a peanut farm 
A little to the west of my town,
Money...

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Shall we not stash old memories away?
Fold them neatly, store in a cedar chest
Keeping them secure for a fonder day
Not gather them to our aching breast?

When they blight our latest venture
Shall we not stash old...

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Black box is an orange recorder.
Filing box keeps things in order.
Jewerly box has rings and things.

Play box is filled with toys.
Playful fun for girls and boys.

Old locked box full of matches.
Shelf in dresser, some watches.

Cedar...

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The old cashmere sweater in my cedar chest 
                always warming my soul on a winters day 
  ...

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