Almost Touching
...
I can’t believe you’re not in the world anymore.
It’s like someone turned off all the lights
And the world went home.
The party, prematurely cut off—
Your face contours etched into my biology...
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Categories:
prematurely, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
An unexceptional turning point in our marriage
...An unexceptional turning point in our marriage...
unexpectedly came about,
when possible prospect
of the wife going
to Puerto Rico by herself
(for a fêted celebration
of our eldest daughter
...
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Categories:
prematurely, absence, abuse, adventure, anger,
Form: Rhyme
God Wants Our Best
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God Wants Our Best
Miracle Man
4/8/2025
At the beginning of life all don’t start the same,
many have the advantages of money or name.
No person ever knows what their life might ent...
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Categories:
prematurely, god, how i feel,
Form: Couplet
Scrounging for boogers wrought my damn nostrils nearly to bust
...Scrounging for boogers wrought my damn nostrils nearly to bust
Warning: The following material no worse than getting cooties. I remember them way back in grade school, whereat everyone ran away f...
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Categories:
prematurely, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Free verse
Let
...Let the air
stay freshly air
and the breeze
breeze freely along
let death not be
our care
let love not seem
so often rare
let your heart
not prematurely
feel undone
let God have ...
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Categories:
prematurely, christian, creation, god, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Inheritance
...
To your selfish, spendthrift posterity
bequeath them not so much as a penny.
Lavish it on yourself and extravagantly
then secretly file for bankruptcy.
And, if you’re really smart, pray ferve...
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Categories:
prematurely, dark, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Hospice
...He blinks in and out in a wingchair,
overhears what visitors say
when patients
can be talked about
as if not there.
People speak well of the dying,
even of dying strangers,
to him their word...
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Categories:
prematurely, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Ten Lines from Ten Poems Entry - Crumbling Memory
...I've always had the sneaking suspicion I'd never grow old.
I'm decaying prematurely,
slowly rotting in my core with every mind-numbing day.
"Why must every good thing get ruined?"
Home is no long...
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Categories:
prematurely, death, home, house, memory,
Form: Free verse
Premature Decay
...I’m decaying prematurely,
with a marked efficiency I never utilized in life.
Bits of ash float from my mouth each time it opens
and my hands mark all I touch
with a temporary smudge.
I’m going ...
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Categories:
prematurely, death, depression, feelings, mental
Form: Free verse
Inheritance
...
To your selfish, spendthrift posterity
bequeath them not so much as a penny.
Lavish it on yourself and extravagantly
then secretly file for bankruptcy.
And, if you’re really smart, pray ferve...
...
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Categories:
prematurely, dark, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Grief Compartments
...You know that monitor that confirms the diagnosis of cardiac asystole, which is
lack of electrical activity in the heart
That's what your absence at first caused me to be
I didn't know there was ...
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Categories:
prematurely, anger, grief, sister,
Form: Rhyme
Number forty seven White House occupant against all odds
...Number forty seven - White House occupant against all odds...
regarding President elect
Donald John Trump.
As a cruel joke to self,
I imagined myself as a Republican
for that one glorious d...
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Categories:
prematurely, abuse, america, anger, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Should we ever decide when others should give up hope
...So many documented cases when hope,
Was prematurely extinguished by Doctors,
So many documented cases when hope,
Was about to be extinguished by law,
But before sentence could be carried out on h...
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Categories:
prematurely, age, analogy, appreciation, baptism,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Keeper Of The Sea
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At a very young age
He knew what he wanted to be
Like his father before him
A ‘Keeper of the Sea’
He married his childhood sweetheart
They loved unconditionally
Dreams and hopes for the fu...
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Categories:
prematurely, house, light, ocean, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Morning Coffee And Apple Fritters
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Morning Coffee & Apple Fritters
Miracle Man
October 2, 2024
At mornings first light
wind existing as a whisper.
Soon future fall mornings
will become much crisper.
With coffee mu...
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Categories:
prematurely, autumn, nature, winter,
Form: Quatrain
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