Long Fv Poems

OMG this is what I think as I am reading? 
thus pus poems and yes they stink
simple in word mire contrivances with 
rancid rhyme scheme redundants that
exude explanatory expectorants spouting 
word wormy willy wally whilst...

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Born Doris, named for our grandmother Doris Owens,
she is nothing much like grandma.
If anything, I am more like grandma
for my thrifty ways and down-to-earth practicality.

Doris, nicnamed Dorie, how we tease her when we hear
her name...

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A NAME ABOVE ALL NAMES  -- fv

There is a Name above all names.  His Name is Jesus.  He is the only Begotten Son of God, born of the Virgin Mary, had a...

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Everyone needs someone through whose eyes he/she can do no wrong,                        ...

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We shared the same DNA running in our blood 
and embraced with love was our deep bond.
It was always completely understood with faith
that we shared a divine friendship so beautiful. 
She was blonde, me brunette,...

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Florence The Goat Lover – FV

She had a wicked laugh, witchlike
Bringing forth Gingerbread House Fright
She lived with goats
They walked through the house gladly
Front door was gone
She wore men’s clothing
Overalls, and she wore a black derby
Her...

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It's way back before I reached 
       Age of double-digits
     But very clear in my memories
       Is a book-store...

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Depression

I have lost the will to live-
a hollow shell on grey earth

I sit placid and worthless in my room
contemplating not taking another breath,
contemplating strangling my aching brain

There is nowhere more deep and terrifying than my...

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I am named after my grandmother.
Christened Sarah Jane, she was known as Jeanie.
That is often the way where I come from,
that deviation from the written proclamation.
The first three of my siblings
were never called by their...

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It was such a long time ago,
but I still remember the day
she came to live with us,
my aunt, a young widow.
Everybody called her Rosy,
maybe because she had pink cheeks,
her real name nobody remembered.

My sister and...

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I was thirteen  the first time I pinned my eyes on her
She smelled of Italy, with peppermint breath that clung sweet 
each time she kissed me affectionately with love-caress    
She told...

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As a child I began hearing about a little
town in the next county with an interesting
name—the same as my surname. 

I gave that fact no more thought until I began
teaching in that town years later....

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An extraterrestrial hiding -
Elliott and E.T. won’t stay sober.
Reeses Pieces and alien colliding.
After all, it’s late October.

The shelter of woods - not his home.
Where Elliot’s family resides, not even close.
His long finger points up, “Home!...

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My cherished friend and almost, sister!
I took you under my gentle wings that
you might overcome addiction, and so
you did.
You, so conservative in dress. Me, so
flamboyant, in a state of colorful and
flashy, undress!

How kindly you transformed...

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All I know of my namesake
   is a photograph
   
   a young attractive 
   smiling woman
   with long red hair
   holding me

 ...

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Her name is Miriam Rivka*                            *'Rivka' is Yiddish...

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