Precursor
My grandpa owned a laundry
And when shirts were washed and pressed,
They were folded ‘round some cardboard
To stay neat ‘til you got dressed.
Our family shirts were treated
Just the same, except we learned
My grandpa paid a nickel
For each cardboard we returned.
This way, he used them once again
And so it seems that I’m
A descendant of a person
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Categories:
precursor, grandfather, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Saying You Cant Is a Precursor To Saying You Wont
Saying You Can’t
Is a Precursor to Saying You Won’t
Written: by Tom Wright
2/7/2018
To most problems I adopt a pragmatic approach,
Experience is the schoolroom where I was taught.
Knowledge quickly became my first head coach,
And common sense didn’t promote using cannot.
If you’re one to hang your hat on being right,
Saying “I can’t” ensures that you’ll always be.
While
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Categories:
precursor, books, culture,
Form: Lyric
Rain's Precursor
Rain's precursor
a cloud's rehearsal
slivers of ariel fluff
stretch towards
the bottom of us
cleansing the way
Maytag advertised it
The way John might've
done at the riverside.
Rain that goes way down
making daddy proud
with its spiritual side effects
The way toddlers' toes
dry in Play-Doo
making the perfect ashtray.
Rain replenishes earth
the way ink
rejuvenates the soul.
Inhaling Mary's smoke,
watching clouds float,
wondering
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Categories:
precursor, daughter, faith, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Precursor
Cerise clouds
picot
the mallows
edging
a wafer
of earth.
Distant mallards
volute the evening,
wainscot
the vault
of season--
a lattice
of lavalieres
mulling a sky
blanched as gin.
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Categories:
precursor, art, loss, nature,
Form: Free verse
Begotten Son--Precursor
And lo He stood there upon the shattered rock
His arms stretched far and wide to guide his sacred flock
The men and women all looked to him for kinship
and he returned to them unshakable friendship
He led them through fire and hail
he brought them freedom and prevailed
Things were as they should
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Categories:
precursor, men,
Form: I do not know?