Long Lyme Poems

*This is NOT meant to be morbid, alarming or negative.  Most people who have seen my poems, know that I am positive often.  It is realistic.  I am a factual person, so...

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We were armed at fourteen with BB guns
and reckless abandon.
So started many of our cousinly adventures.

Central Utah has hot, hot summers
and little else going for it.
We took to the sage in shorts and t-shirts
begging the...

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It's that time of day 'gain,' it's noon,
And, I'm still howlin' at the moon,
As friends are comin' soon,
It's that time of day 'gain, it's noon.

I'm at the window, I'm rarin',
I'm in the mirror, I'm glarin',
Got...

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No spot, no matter how ugly can be transformed,
into a place of beauty and delightful with flowers;
in spring I feel a rising sense of excitement,
oh, soon the winter damage will be full of color.

Primrose with...

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I loved each and every one of my pets
Such fond memories one never forgets
My frog Buddah was a friendly little critter
Like Leo the lizard but they gave mom the jitters
I brought home Slick the snake...

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I would have to say the greatest performance of my life is survival
And turning bad things into something positive to help others
I survived severe trauma as a child, I was silenced and deeply hurt
I survived...

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I feel the challenge.
Can I change the past?
Only the good Lord knows,
but I can try hard.

And what can one do
to achieve such a mammoth 
enterprise?  Don’t you know.
Only one thing suffice, an impossibility.

I pray...

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(I know this is a dark poem, but also factual. If you want a lighter poem, please read the few before this one *that I hope you will visit)

Some may say, don’t worry, make light...

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It was just this last week..
When the words, they did flow
For the first time, in lifetimes, it seems.

But instead of the hurt, and  the pain and the guilt;
My words now penned, are words full...

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So here we are in the 21st century 
acting like a flock of birds that suddenly went blind 
and flew into a red brick wall.  
We have to worry about the outbreak of Ebola,...

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If I explain you, that wouldn't help you 
To understand the importance of a subject,
until you don't fail, you 'll never learn the values of a thing,
doesn't matter living is balanced or unbalanced that has...

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I have survived trauma, Cancer, Lyme disease, Head Traumas,
Many surgeries, bowel obstruction and infection
For those with health issues, life can really hit rock bottom
Pain can be unbearable and also be ongoing
Near death experiences are as...

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Be aware folks, its the
Season for lyme disease.
Don't just say "huh"
For this  does not cure with ease.

Spring raises up all that was dormant,
Its allergy season from All Types of bugs.
For all that rises up...

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I  wasn't right in the head, but no words were said except to the  secretaries, a housewife, and machines.
I  left weird messages about fake products like a kind of heating pad only...

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There's a heavy dew 'pon the ground
A gift from last nights rain
Then I saw the path whence was made
By an animal plain

Then I saw another path, too
They both came from the road
Then they converged in...

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I can't get dates because of this tick on my nose.
Women freak out even more as it continues to grow.
Now it's the size of a nickel.
I've gotten myself in a pickle.
I keep trying but I...

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