Grief Nice Poems

What is that glow near yonder red leaf.
near a willow still sharing grief?
A gem, perhaps, or sunbeam
with drops of cinnamon.
I won't hazard guess,
but I confess
topaz...

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Joy a playful toy                      ...

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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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The first order the first decree,                   ...

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As a child we think of masks and Halloween,                ...

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Buds Forever

Shorty was a little dog, 
Curly was too. 
They played every day, 
until there was nothing else to do. 

Rolling on the grass, 
digging...

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Solemn

As I walk alone, 
the path before me, 
long and full of pain, 
my thoughts are only on you. 
You went forward, 
when others ran...

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"Chicken" Dinner

Invited, 
for the first time, 
it might well be the last. 

A tux was too much, 
a swimsuit too little. 
I thought I would...

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Give me something to believe
I need someone to reprieve
Me from this life of loneliness
Days are filled with craziness
My brain keeps asking me why
My eyes always...

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When Azrael* comes knocking, it won’t be with bony fists,
I believe, he’ll be a Doctor, with a cure,
Or a Maiden with her posies, a Knight...

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I don’t need to be broken…again…
For your sake, even if it was unspoken,
No, I am not the one to blame 
For being last place in...

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I'm a half-century's old big girl 
a big, fat mature, grown-up girl 
in many shy quite, quiet ways 
a prolific foot traveler by way of...

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Love is a four letter word
she whispered into his ear,

So is four, as is word
he whispered back into her fear,

Such is "you and I"
cried his...

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   HOPE 
             
"Hope",a little birdie you,
Vanishes mostly in the blue

Stop...

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Now picking up the pieces, 
From a heart full of bruises 
Dementia, pain and depression, 
Saturate my heart extension. 
  
She was a walking...

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