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Premium Member Caregiving Stories Continued
Wounded Sacred Dementia

My last foster care-provider
and -receiver story
is also a sad story
of my last special needs adoption
of bipolar born,
and oppositionally reared,
alcoholism.

My BiPolar Wounded Child
turned an auspicious five
on the day I first saw her,
and promptly rejected...

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Categories: hard to tell, caregiving, health, humor, love, parents,
Form: Political Verse



America Wasn'T So Bad Back Then
We have something in common, a fellow I talk to now and then. We’re about the same age and perhaps the only ones in the diner who think our past lives are interesting. So when...

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Categories: hard to tell, america,
Form: Prose
Premium Member On Fam'Ly Traditions - 2nd Third
On Fam’ly Traditions - 2nd third -
 


“Might as well grab us some food an' some beer...some ice...and some bundles o' wood, an' prob'ly some charcoal....there ain't nothin' better than walleye from right off a...

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Categories: hard to tell, family, together,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Epilogue
if you have taken the time to browse through this eclectic collection of self-indulgent foolishness, I hope you’ve been entertained by the quirkiness of its content, or at the very least, annoyed by the pervasiveness...

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Categories: hard to tell, allegory, literature,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member 50th Class Reunion - Class of 1935
All the guys and gals that I had graduated with, from Jimmy Dorsey High School, back in 1935,
Half a century later were dispersing all around us, surprising me with whom among my class was still...

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Categories: hard to tell, high school,
Form: Narrative



My Compilation
Many of my favorite poems
How About This for Veterans Day

A monthly Monday morning military meeting
Would be great for them as way of greeting
Talking about things happening another day
Of past successes and prices they had to...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hard to tell, analogy,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Isadore Lemaster - Both Audio and Text
Isadore LeMaster was a kind and friendly person, who never spoke in haste or told a lie.
The finest vet that Oxford ever had - the guy was special - and if you’ve got the time…I’ll...

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Categories: hard to tell, inspirational, uplifting,
Form: Narrative
Many of My Favorite Poems
How About This for Veterans Day

A monthly Monday morning military meeting
Would be great for them as way of greeting
Talking about things happening another day
Of past successes and prices they had to pay.

Enlisted Term of Service...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hard to tell, allegory, analogy,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member False Alarm - Both Audio and Text
On a cold and misty morning…cloudy…dark…and gray, I woke up very early…couldn’t sleep.
I’d lain awake much longer than I usually did that night…I’d even tried that good old counting sheep.

As I read the nearby clock...

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Categories: hard to tell, humor,
Form: Verse
In Touch With My Soul
I feel the aftermath of sadness written upon my heart
It's the feeling you get when no one is communicating with you
And you have to read the signs and wonders to know what is happening around...

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Categories: hard to tell, 3rd grade, endurance, england, loneliness, power, travel,
Form: Narrative
Its Always the Money
ITS ALWAYS THE MONEY
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS


It’s always the money I’m saddened to say
Put your hand in someone’s pocket its time to pay
When it’s not the money, it’s a crusade
Or revenge for a crime that was...

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Categories: hard to tell, allegory, corruption, evil, humanity, introspection, money,
Form: Rhyme
A Punny Death
A Coffee Merchant was the first man to find,
The corpse as he started off on his daily grind!
What he saw filtered through, so he had grounds
To send for the Police, to investigate what he'd found!

He’d...

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Categories: hard to tell, allegory,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Well-Known Stranger
'Twas a sound I thought alarming, most assuredly disarming;
Up I rose from peaceful slumber to discern what it might be.
While my candle flickered, wavered; whilst my heartbeat halted, quavered,
At my window I was favoured by...

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Categories: hard to tell, absence, assonance, feelings, miss you, ocean,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Quy Nhon and the Tet Offensive
Quy Nhon and The Tet Offensive
By Franklin Price
9/2/2018

Quy Nhon and the Tet offensive, more than fifty years ago
That Chinese New Year changed our world and most its ebb and flow
Until that day the boonies were...

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Categories: hard to tell, memory, new year, war,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Equalizer - Both Audio and Text
The “Equalizer”                          



Late last night, at Billy-Bob’s, this little dude...

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Categories: hard to tell, humor,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Waitress
We came walking blind bends at dusk, 
An overhanging fig picked fresh.
No pavements, just a nervous trust 
that drivers would skirt our single line.

Hugging the roadside with torches lit, 
Phones swung glowing to the ground...

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Categories: hard to tell, memory,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Canto Xxiv Dante's Hell Translation Part1
In the early part of the novel year 
When in Aquarium sun anneals hair
And nights already at noon disappear,

When the hoarfrost makes  ground a cover wear
Creating image of her sister white,
But it then short...

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Categories: hard to tell, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima
Mean In Green
I stood on the corner this morning
Absorbing the fresh morning air
listening attentively to the morning news
That has everyone so upset and confused
The morning sun is just peeping out
with its orange and yellowish color
Stirring lazy bodies...

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Categories: hard to tell, confidence, emotions, encouraging, endurance, green, humanity, strength,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Friends You'Ve Never Mentioned Before - Both Audio and Text
“Who was that?” my wife inquired, as I hung up the phone. “And what was that you said about a bar?”
“That was Duncan Taylor, hon.    A darn good friend of mine. ...

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Categories: hard to tell, humor,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Adventures of Captain Morgan
Well, it all started when
Jim Beam bet Jack Daniels
that Captain Morgan
couldn't go out
and get himself
some Wild Turkey.
Old Fashioned, like Old Granddad,
Captain Morgan like some of you,
really enjoys his Southern Comfort.
But mostly in the form of...

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Categories: hard to tell, drink, fantasy, friendship, humor, irony, spoken word,
Form: Free verse
The Sun is Shining Again
The sun is shining in the east with petals opening bright, spreading its fragrance into the light and an epiphany of hope resting on the branches swinging from limb to limb while my heart entertains...

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Categories: hard to tell, america, body, change, community, deep, environment, loss,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Passing the Baton
Despite how much a man adores his folks before they pass...there sometimes is... among the other folks that man survives...
The sort who - without needing to be asked, becomes involved, and simply out of kindness...

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Categories: hard to tell, love,
Form: Rhyme
The Girl On the Hill
The Girl On The Hill
I know of a girl who sits on a hill
Her skin is pale and her hair is silk 
I walk past her everyday and almost every night 
And sometimes I stop...

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Categories: hard to tell, crazy, dark, death, deep, evil, murder, sick,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Charity and Sorrow
Everywhere "Charity" goes he brings his friend along" Sorrow ".
No good deed goes unpunished so it seems;  
Between friends  and enemies Its hard to tell the difference these days.    ...

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Categories: hard to tell, relationship, universe,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Tracing Lines of Frost
At the onset, 
A profound peace.
In chastity to silence,
Our days of joy were born. 
The lines were clear-
Or so it seemed.
We chose redundancy,
One voice, one choice.
Like a bouquet of flowers,
We were held together,
Our hands, our...

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Categories: hard to tell, love,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs