Home Pride Poems

Why Is it I take you anywhere you want to go , but you refuse to wash me
You leave me out in the cold all...

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Extreme cleaning my house is wearing me out,
but I’ll get through. There can be no doubt. 
Straining and scrubbing’s required.
Buckets, I’ve perspired.
I’m beyond
tired.
Though not fond
of...

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I was walking through the pineapple row and a thorn stick me on my middle toe, I bend down low to remove it and I...

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It was a long time ago,
but I still remember the day
she came to live with us,
my aunt, a young widow.
Everybody called her Rosy,
maybe because she...

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Astonishing, the level of acceptance, 
convinced through the horrors 
Addiction, unknown to others 
within the shadows 
Pride's last thread of hope. 

Refusing most certain transition...

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One of the easiest mistakes to make is having too much pride.

It is the sneakiest of snakes as it makes its home inside.

It only needs...

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Respectfully, I'm about to be disrespectful because my feelings are hurt, being treated like dirt, and stepped on for the last time
It's okay because I...

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If you drive and use your mobile phone.

Someone you kill will not be going home.

It might be a child that you don't know

But your on...

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The Retreat:  Part 9

Coming Down The Hill

We were warned
That the high upon high
May not hold or be well-received
By the mere mortals below
Yet Cliff's Band...

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Governor JB Pritzker's rightly proud of his home state
    The latest statistics all show we're doing great

  While we lead the...

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I found you, alone, over looked, ignored.
I could see the potential, the beauty,
A diamond in the rough,
Your face was streaked with dirt and marred.
‘Twas clear...

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Morocco at the 2022 World Cup,:
Morocco is the first African nation to reach the semi finals of FIFA World Cup tournament after 92 years and...

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Buy now, pay later,
Rent to own today.
Put it on your card,
That's the American way.

A nation plagued with debt,
A people bound with chains.
The majority feel the...

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Schools are closed for Veterans’ Day
So Henry, here at home,
Requested that he have a chance
To write my daily poem.

He commandeered my notebook
And began to neatly...

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In the City of Pines, vendors are everywhere.  High and low prices are everywhere.  The once cool region of overflowing love somehow narrowed...

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