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Harriet Harris, Nee Kuritsky Gave Up the Ghost
Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost...

~ May fourth, 2005
wedded bliss nearly fifty years
half a century almost
me not most favorite grown offspring,
she (when alive) did boast,
about youngest sister and her family,
unlike me – severely...

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Categories: greentree, absence, abuse, anger, appreciation, bereavement, cry, dance,
Form: Free verse



Unidentified Extraterrestrials Willingly Abducted Me
Unidentified extraterrestrial(s) willingly abducted me

As a divergence 
from the apocalyptical, dialectical, 
geomorphological, judgmatical, 
metaphorical, philosophical...,
I share an out of this 
(webbed wide) world,
light hearted anecdote 
ye may find far fetched.

Believe me you,
an unspecified number of...

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Categories: greentree, absence, adventure, august, blessing, confusion, courage, dream,
Form: Free verse
Attitude with latitude
Attitude with latitude

originally written January 19th, 2019
and tension defines the dynamic

Valiant prince sip pulled effort
rebuffed, snubbed, thumbed
courtesy eldest daughter
uncontested vainglorious woke
mine genuine apology,
viz sincerely yours truly
psyche asper paternal overture
toward aforementioned offspring
smitten with opprobrium
figuratively smacked upside...

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Categories: greentree, abuse, anger, anxiety, betrayal, family, father daughter,
Form: Free verse
Michael Joseph Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson

Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist. Dubbed the "King of Pop", he is regarded as one of the most significant cultural...

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Categories: greentree, abuse, addiction, america, angel, anniversary, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Unidentified Flying Object Abducted Yours Truly,
Unidentified flying object abducted yours truly,... 

a willing experimental subject 
to escape untenable married life.

Upon falling into a deep slumber, 
the following subconscious 
somnambulant scenario arose 
allowing, enabling, and providing 
temporary alleviation from 
outa harried...

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Categories: greentree, absence, adventure, anxiety, appreciation, blessing, courage, destiny,
Form: Free verse



Turning the maxim familiarity breeds contempt on it's head
Turning the maxim familiarity breeds contempt on it's head...
not just in time for Valentine's Day
but the remaining days of our lives
as the world turns
on all our children
the young and restless
now grown to womanhood

After being married
for...

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Categories: greentree, absence, adventure, anger, anniversary, anxiety, appreciation, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Harriet Harris Nee Kuritsky Gave Up the Ghost May 4th, 2004
Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost ~ May 4th, 2004

Often these days
(closing in on the eighth
anniversary of eighth orbit
around mister sun),
the following genuine sentiment
Matthew Scott Harris
doth wish to share 
how one and only...

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Categories: greentree, absence, anger, atheist, courage, death, fate, may,
Form: Free verse
Ink Roached Infestation Didst Derive Within Mice Elf
Ink roached infestation didst derive within mice elf

Minor emendations to following
just posted verse
oversight to correct dissatisfaction,
yours truly I do curse
ah... methinks if hands of time 
can be made to go in reverse
a more exemplary version
to...

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Categories: greentree, absence, adventure, age, birth, creation, family, history,
Form: Rhyme
Letter To Eden
My deplorable emotional collapse. 

Lucky for me, she happened to be in her many hour siestas!

My dear sister amelie came over (previously arranged to pick up some rocks that z mama rolled in a pile)...

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Categories: greentree, angel, beautiful, caregiving, child, dad, daughter, father,
Form: Narrative
Mother Dearest Harriet Harris, Nee Kuritsky Gave Up the Ghost May 4th 2004
Mother dearest Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost ~ May 4th, 2004

Often these days
(early May 2021)
the following genuine sentiment
Matthew Scott Harris
doth wish to share one son,
cuz seventeen years after mother succumbed
courtesy of terminal...

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Categories: greentree, absence, anniversary, bereavement, cancer, death, eulogy, farewell,
Form: Free verse
Harriet Harris Nee Kuritsky Gave Up the Ghost May 4th 2004
Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost ~ May 4th, 2004

Often these days
the following genuine sentiment
Matthew Scott Harris
doth wish to share one son,
cuz fifteen years after mother succumbed
courtesy of terminal illness

I still reckon how...

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Categories: greentree, 12th grade, absence, loss, may, mother, son,
Form: Elegy
Stimulus Checkup Visited Mine Local Gastrointestinal Economy
Stimulus check(up), visited mine local gastro-intestinal economy

Around high noon
today March 19th, 2021
fecal impaction I did plaintively croon
until effect courtesy amitiza, which
prescription medication
(in short a laxative)
served as amazing grace saving boon.

Once activated - impossible mission
to suppress...

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Categories: greentree, abuse, betrayal, conflict, dark, depression, discrimination, father,
Form: Rhyme
Ink Roached Infestation Didst Derive Within Mice Elf
Ink roached infestation didst derive within mice elf

Thus writer of these words
forever mus lee experiencing 
craving to eat cheese,
a milk product 
eternally preserved within 
annals, chronicles, epistles, 
et cetera of human civilization 
and it's discontents...

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Categories: greentree, adventure, america, angst, anxiety, crush, environment, hate,
Form: Free verse
Approbation Deeded Gratuitously Just Because
Approbation Deeded Gratuitously Just Because...

(this endeavor more self directed to progeny,
whose psyche wounded, strafed, and nicked.)

Incumbent upon me own
     purring impetus, a sincere
desire arose NOT to ask
    ...

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Categories: greentree, 11th grade, farewell, father, father daughter, giving,
Form: Elegy
his December 17th 2024
This December 17th, 2024...

alternately titled: a literary retrospective when holiday times living hand to mouth in Penn Valley fraught with slim pickings and yours truly felt utterly miserable that nary a delivery from Santa Claus...

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Categories: greentree, absence, america, angst, betrayal, christmas, grief, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Beyond the mourning of bereavement no stilled tears
Beyond the mourning of bereavement no stilled tears

Today marks fifth anniversary of tragic deaths
an aching breaking heart – mine
remembers four extinguished breaths.

dashed – not while riding off
in a white horse open sleigh,
but upon learning untimely...

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Categories: greentree, absence, anniversary, august, death, eulogy, heartbroken, hurt,
Form: Free verse
Beyond the Mourning of Bereavement
Beyond the mourning of bereavement

Today marks fourth anniversary of tragic deaths
an aching breaking heart – mine
remembers four extinguished breaths.

(dashed – not while riding off
in a white horse open sleigh,
but upon learning untimely demise 
regarding prosperous...

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Categories: greentree, absence, america, angel, august, bereavement, cry, farewell,
Form: Free verse
This December 17th, 2021
This December 17th, 2021...

Totally tubular fiction yup,
nevertheless I reflect 
the year (arbitrarily plucked from misty past)
Santa Claus did not show up
courtesy imagination license
cruel as crippled poet pan handler 
rattling his empty cup.

Though blink of time...

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Categories: greentree, 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th
Form: Rhyme
Experiencing Emerging Adulthood Stage While Inching Toward Being An Old Geezer
Me, an aging baby boomer
long haired pencil necked geek
burning, depleting, using... fossil fuels,
thus a global nonrenewable resource(s)
repentant consumer
admitting heavily trod carbon footprint
additionally deeply enmired
within very late adolescence,

hence I shriek
with utter dismay
starkly aware personal hygiene
suffers direct...

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Categories: greentree, anger, childhood, confusion, father daughter, health, mom,
Form: Free verse
1148 Greentree Lane
Circa: 23rd of Tevet, 5760
     to 15th of Tevet, 5770
     in accordance
     with Hebrew date
(converted, asper Gregorian
     Calendar) courtesy...

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Categories: greentree, absence, atheist, grief, jewish, mental illness, my
Form: Free verse
Eden Liat Harris I Praise
Eden Liat Harris – I Praise

Twenty two years ago
     December twenty second,
two thousand eighteen
"star student" born
this papa (and most
     likely thee birth mother)
    ...

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Categories: greentree, anger, december, father daughter, forgiveness, happy birthday,
Form: Rhyme
Never Too Late To Say I Love You Until
Never Too Late To Say "I Love You" Until...

Futile lamentations reverberate along
corridors of times long gone, this papa
tearfully apologetic revisiting his base,
fitfully lachrymose torturing unrelenting
voluminous wrongs against thee dearest
precious daughter aware poetic/ prosaic

ministrations cannot substitute...

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Categories: greentree, class, dedication, devotion, father daughter, graduate, i
Form: Epic
No Matter Papa Repents
No Matter Papa Repents...

Every blasted acrimonious misdeed
aye indelibly perpetrated
affecting ye and the Punim for life
hounds me doggone soul night and day
venomous wrath torments, strangles, racks...
every bone in mine entire body

suicidal ideations haunt every
waking and sleeping...

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Categories: greentree, abuse, anger, depression, emotions, forgiveness, grave, journey,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Beyond the Mourning of Bereavement
(dashed off upon learning untimely demise 
regarding prosperous family, whose small 
plane crashed. about half dozen years ago, 
they lived ~ three doors down from us.) 

No words can assuage the deep sorrow,
this once upon...

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Categories: greentree, 11th grade, 12th grade, death, fate, loss,
Form: Ode
Das Decrements Describe Digs
Das Decrements Describe Digs ©

Grasping figurative literary straws
     poetic theme yielded
     farfetched aggregate
i.e., where each dwelling
     listed as figurative Stormy bedmate,
this nada so...

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Categories: greentree, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form: Free verse

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