Easter Memory Poems

What name can I give 
To a dream that is uncertain
To people who are unclear
To a feeling I am unsure of
To a message that is...

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Time and essence shouldn't make anyone
forget the memory of a dear one,
would love be unforgettable
and profoundly thoughtful
to each mourning soul:
if it only gave its joy...

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Priest’s Palette
 
Looking in the mirror over the sun visor of our nine passenger 1959 Ford station wagon, which we really need with six children,...

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into the wilderness haunted by ghost-towns 
And ancient bloodstains 
and lost history of scars 
we wander the borderlands 
between the weakening dreams 
and cities a...

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9/22/1983

I drove your shining,Cadillac, Daddy!
The lead car to the cemetery.
A stuffed bear, your Borsalino,
In the August, back window,fino!

You, in the hearse, a few feet behind..
Tears...

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I’ve never really wished
To be a child again.
For growing up’s too hard
To even put to pen.
But somehow, in my mind,
The difficulties fade.
The memories that linger
Are...

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Recollections flutter
Behind my eyes
Like autumn leaves 
Scattered by the wind.
Dreams send out tentacles
Into time long past
Calling memories up from
Obscurity into light. 
A phantom path leads...

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The police badge I wore shone so bright
On the day I graduated it felt so right
For the uniform was what I wanted for me 
But...

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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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Alice is such a beautiful name.
My grandmother wore it for 98 years.
It speaks of soft whispers and shared secrets,
of lessons in life and how to...

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Easter had come,
The Easter bunny had hidden the chocolate eggs in a basket.

Hid all the Easter treats and presents,
The conservation area was a good place...

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Easter Sunday 1959
We were sparklingly modern
Petticoats flounced down the sidewalk
Boys wearing dark suits with clip on ties

Brother was reluctant
My cousin and I were delighted
Loving our...

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Cicada shells that sticky hands attach

to dirtied shirts

 

Humid evenings echo with jovial screams

and patient parents calling curfew

 

Morning dew and the crinkling of autumn

leaves...

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As silent as a sparrow, 
she hopped into my heart. 
She made me dream the sweetest dreams 
that never will depart. 

Our love was technicolor...

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Island Aloha

Tall and lovely palms are swaying island fair
within the tropical gentle trade wind's flow
as elegant Egrets glide on salty air—
then softly land where verdant...

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