Marriage Moving On Poems

  A baseball glove lies on its back
  in a trunk of items
  once fresh and youthful
  now discarded for
 ...

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In the hot A-Ga-Ming night
My wife and I skip the July 4th fireworks
At the sandbar down south on long Torch Lake

Start our own shoreline fire

Count...

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I have realized that I have been in an unhealthy, unhappy marriage for a long, long time and it’s just not what I want anymore....

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Maid

My maid of honor, 
my best friend, (smile)
help me in the moment, 
help me in the hour, 
help me make it down... 
the great white...

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Sunshine Morning

My wedding is just... days away. 
The light streams into my window. 
It is morning. 
I have so many things to do. 

So far...
I...

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"Whatever happened to Paris?"
she asked
recalling the long ago
promise he'd made
After twenty years
she still did not 
possess a passport
"That was important to you?
I never knew," he...

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Hard times are part of life
knocks come, put us in a spin
but turn around walk right on
give the knock a real huge grin

Look up and...

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The odd way you looked 
At me when I booked 
Our honeymoon flight 
I expected tears
Joyous ecstasy. 

Then, I first knew ... 
Did not know...

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I remember watching that movie 
with you the year we separated

It was just released on VHS  
and for some God Forsaken reason

we rented it...

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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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Requisite inspection November 24th, 2020 at Apartment B44

Countdown triggers nails
bitten down to quick
geesh if only Mary Poppins
could pull off cheap trick
or think super tramping Glinda...

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Looking for a new name 
Thackray was playing the game 
Ready to survive 
Being alive 
In the high profile section 
Worthy to have fame protection...

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A poem - Crimsons are not for me

   Crimsons are not for me 	
   Celluloid screen flashed for reference 
 ...

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She had discerned the shame
throughout her espoused life
real love she earned to claim
and end that timeless strife

Now a divorced woman
who timely pays her bill
provides all...

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A Hard Beginning

The cough continues. 
My head... aches, 
but there are needles in my eyes, 
that will not stop poking my lids. 
Everything hurts today,...

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