My Presidio of Tape and Tulips
...“love is just passion that can turn.”
sometimes i wonder when people will tire of taking care of me.
when my mother’s lilting sighs will lengthen as she dabs at my grape juice finger paintings spl...
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Categories:
presidio, 10th grade, anxiety, depression,
Form: Free verse
Self Lament
...A lazy me has ignored my Taiji sword long
For work I still to the Presidio march on
From buildings I watch the white waves of the sea
From sand beaches I hear them as well as the seals
On Soldier...
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Categories:
presidio, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Mark Halliday: Warriorpoet
...Mark Halliday
Son of a California Englishman
And a small-town Utah Mormon.
In his youth, nothing extraordinary;
Later served in Europe as a missionary.
Pianist, marching flutist, then a Guitar...
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Categories:
presidio, art, family, garden, life,
Form: Couplet
Burial On the Presidio Banks
...The dark day has come
As we stand on Presidio Banks
We cry
Towards the sea
The waves
Just... so grey
The look on the faces
So grave
As we mourn the losses of today
The songs start to play
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Categories:
presidio, death, devotion, friendship, hope,
Form: Free verse
My Angel Never Left San Francisco
...San Francisco
Presidio Terrace
Where new home sat.
My father
Peruvian Consul,
Myself
A two year old
Brat.
Wobbly I walk
Childish noises
My talk,
The challenge were
The stairs.
How can...
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Categories:
presidio, faith, inspirational, love,
Form: Rhyme
Lucifer There
...As night meandered,
a deceitful descent,
a sparrow's cry did beckon,
the dark perils, of yet
another mysterious presidio,
of intrigue and macabre phantasm.
There,
amongst the massacring
t...
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Categories:
presidio, confusion, death, introspection, sad,
Form: Epic