Husband Lullaby Poems

Devotion Poem, Our Next Lives

(For Jim)

Good morning!    
Ten-thousand good-mornings
We have seen.  At the least!
Together....and so I dream
Of what could be in...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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I was counting days 'till he would be mine,
      I was ticking off nine.
      ...

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I knew that a baby was hid in that house, 
Though I saw no cradle and heard no cry; 
But the husband was tip-toeing 'round...

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Dear Kitty friend, the first day that we met
I noticed right away how sleek you were.
From head to tiny paws, you were a jet
black, and...

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I went to the cemetery today to visit my beloved dead,
followed the tree lined road to the big grey rock;
and the weeping maple tree and...

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I had to cry on the inside,
As aunty laid spread on the Kitchen floor weeping.
She somewhat gathered herself and stood sobbing,
“They shot him” were words...

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AN AFRICAN WOMAN

The lady in white has make me insane
With the blissful frangrances of her laughter,
Clouded with a beautiful image of love.
She is the art...

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She tearfully told him, "I'm sorry, but I'm pregnant." 
" What do you want me to do?" " I don't know!" 
" What would your...

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The night in July was quietly chanting,
Its own lullaby, as if it was granting,
A sleep without trouble to people of Trees.

And all of a sudden...

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A Sample of some of the genres I write it...Nature, family, depression...just a taste...just a taste. These are all reposts and can be found along...

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April is the month Persephone comes back 
from Tartarus, crossing the river of death, Styx, 
with her stillborn child in her breast. The river she...

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A thick, white smog crept through the park that night,
that one color besides black.
Occasionally, street lamps would beam around like wheels
but the lights burned strangely...

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She once walked with him and stopped with him
when they heard that familiar refrain.
She'd stand beside him while he'd salute
her pride for her Soldier was...

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“Love me like nothing is holding you back”
She calls from the kitchen sweetly
he sets down his project
and wraps his strong arms
around the one he loves,...

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