Family Niece Poems

Bats and snakes, make no mistakes 
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From tiny seeds
you sprouted; Tender
green shoots, so new

and impressionable.
Shoots that I serenaded 
and watered with love,

albeit only on occasion.
Then, you had bright petals
blooming from your...

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She was never a girly girl
did not care about wearing her
mother’s high heel shoes,
or painting her nails.
Wasn’t interested in putting on lipstick,
or smearing makeup on...

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As I sit here thinking of what I could have done
Many things have come to my mind
Should I have called her more often
Should I have...

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They sit in the corner by themselves
They sit and watch the day turn into Darkness
Their eyes glazed over in their head
There is a lifelessness within...

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Spirits wander in and wander out
met usually with a painful shout
They give me chills but also wonder
are they real or tales from dark under?

This story...

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Pumpkin Angel

My little Pumpkin Angel
Is what I call Shalina Jean
She is a sweet niece of mine
Who was born on Halloween
She has a smile filled with...

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I'm off on the beaten path
with Little Rosey in my grasp

There's palm fronds like a giant clock,
twenty hands instead of two
And there's the honeysuckle bush
that...

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BEYOND ME

The latter part of twenty twenty was promising
with the Corona vaccine, that I was looking
forward with twenty twenty one, anticipating
slowing down of the pandemic...

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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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Your parents gave me the news at Wilton's Music Hall
a place of joy and drunkenness
Laurel and Hardy, Hetty King, Marie Lloyd and now
A Great Aunt.
A...

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My Nieces and Nephews 

This is just a little rhyme, 
That will make more sense in time, 
A little keepsake from my heart to yours,
To...

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My eyes are filled up, with tears of joy, just watching you play, with your shiny new toys… 

The time with you, is filled with...

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My Great Niece Brene’e

While sorting through family pictures today
I saw one of my great nieces named Brene’e
Her thoughts appeared to be so very far away
I...

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despair hangs heavy 
in the air these days
 
but the only path
is through they say

an intruder in the midst
blowing his cold still drip 
into the...

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