Animal Narrative Poems

In the early 70’s my husband and our first baby, Angela, moved to Muscatine, Iowa, in the middle of the night, in the summer time....

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The soul of the earth is wrapped up inside
And the spirit of God is walking beside me
The universe rests upon my shoulder
And I can feel...

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My spirit has been calling to get up and go to the sea
My spirit has been telling me that there is something for me to...

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Nature, to a less discerning eye, at times seem
		partial to certain of her creatures,
sparing some the pain of death and loss, a blessing 
	we humans...

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It didn’t matter that I didn’t know its name
or its specific kind. I knew its shape
and that was more revealing than its name.

Neither did it...

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CHapter 14 King Ptoleny the 2nd (cont.)

Thus they charted weather systems 
Grey depressions bringing rainclouds,
Towering dark cumulonimbus,
Or the violent storms and cyclones
 
And in turn...

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ON MY MOTHER’S PASSING

i wanted to keep my mother physically with me
but it would be like trying to hold the sun
like in life she still...

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The unexpected heavy thud
of netted hay on solid wood.
My horses snort and sigh and chew,
as glistening cobwebs sway with dew. There is comfort in their...

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Chapter 13d

Yet at length he reawakened 
As if in another lifetime 
Han discerned a sound and movement 
Stiffly rose to look about him

And he saw...

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Excited, expecting a new arrival, a new pet,
being an eight year old boy an animal lover,
father arrives box in hand, I greet him full
of anticipation,...

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I crossed into Vienna, VIA courthouse road still trying to figure want it was all about
Then I see where courthouse road ends  right at...

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I knew that  I had to go somewhere but I did not know where 
I knew I had to go somewhere that was not...

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 Immorality conquered the mind of youth
Devil in disguise they called it fun
God's word and devotees consider boring 
Motivation from insanity
A generation living on the...

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CASTING FEARS

You are so shrewd minded
acting so presumptuous 
walking around with acrimonious 
in self indulgent
while anonymously casting fears
bringing on the tears
Oh, but I am a...

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We Are The Masters Of Our Fate 

Free will some have called it the greatest gift
bestowed on humanity and that is our own fate
it's a...

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HAUNTED 

When the leaves fall from the autumn trees
my mind takes me back where life wasn't very nice 
upon the ancient Mediterranean sea
I remember my...

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ALL THOSE OLD ROSES YOU GAVE

I was holding those old roses you gave to me
it was dark outside and very lonely
it was cold outside so...

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THE BURNING ROSE

I see a old man walking in an awkward way
he is hobbling around in so much pain
then I started hearing someone screaming
while the...

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