Family Portraits Poems

When our children were young and our family small…say gathered around a birthday cake
with all those smiling faces in one place…our family portrait was easy...

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For years I’ve had an old dodge pick-up truck
It sits in high grass in my far away backyard
She was a great prop for fun family...

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Sepia memories
Portraits in greyscale
Old time scenarios


Old times now look strange
Haunting smiles sketch quaint
Change flings kindred range 


Family album
Yellow odd paper
Old photographs here


Browse upon times past
Looking...

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Hall Of Blank Portraits 

To my father, 
I paint you as the sea, 
Ebbing and flowing 
In my memory.
Drifting in the doldrums 
Immortal and serene,...

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Dawn hurls
Magic aura;
Song birds sing

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Cheery sunrise
Poetry of light;
Ceremonious new day

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Awakening
Dreamy lines linger;
Unremembered glimpses

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Brisk walk seeking
Wet market food supplies;
Fresh vegetables greet

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Busy food court
Crowded queues;
Hunger strikes a...

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Play it again Ed,
Elgar's Alice suddenly said;
A simple improvisation
Led to fourteen variartions-
On family,friends and a dog.

Tribute to his Enigma....

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