Christmas Number Poems

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 number falling before three and preceding five
sacred in my culture to ground us to the nature of all things
the time of life when 'being'...

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File Number

364 was especially hard to deal with today. 
The worker made a check in the empty box. 
She used red ink. 

Wife beater, 
drinker,...

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Weekly monologue 1.
What is Christmas? What is the true meaning of Christmas? These are questions that many ask areselfs. What is Christmas is one most...

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Astronaut William Anders's space photo,
Onboard Apollo 8 on Christmas Eve,
Nineteen sixty-eight, a bit of a show,
Influence nature, world-renown to be,
Taken with the moon as in...

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(Thy lovely lasses unwittingly 
unstintingly unexpectedly 
taught me selflessness)

Every Holiday time each year, 
a rocketing increase asper
doling out Uriah Heap ping 
largesse imposed upon each
citizen...

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lost treasures recalled - 
bacon smells in morning light
snapping Christmas logs

Long Tooth
June 15, 2016

Poet's Note:
So many wonderful things are now politically incorrect or considered dangerous.
Wood...

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Christmas time haiku -
“tableaux d’une exposition”
post-it notes on walls

Long Tooth
May 25, 2016

The painting here is a beautiful portrait of Mussorgsky the composer of the famous...

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HARDWORKING    NUMBER   TWELVE

When the big hand on clock shows  hours,  12 is the max.
12  calendar  months;...

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