Family Prose Poems

There’s someone with a pure heart 
so sky beautiful   ...   starlight celestial
Dressed in white clouds;
dove wind bleats the sound of an...

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Visited the lake today with my ever ready walking pal
Saw gatherings of floating geese savoring early morning joy 
With eminent elegant black necks and heads...

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The plains of the Dakotas seem endless
With rumors of great mountains to the west
And rumors of great lakes to the east
But to the proud pioneers...

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I want to say something about the recent immigration wave 
they come to our shores looking for a beter life has anyone forgotten that
we must...

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Write a Lament  is what they say So I’m going to tell you about the saddest day. 
It was summertime with parades in the...

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Back in the day
Women had to sew their own dresses
And also some of their own men's clothing
patch up their britches all day long
it really was...

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Paternal Grandfather Aaron Harris...

Lovely bones long since disintegrated
into dustbin of genealogical history,
if still alive would rank as oldest person
clocking another one incremental increase
asper in chronological...

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ALL WEATHER, ALL TIME, POETRY TIME

When it’s a stormy weekend,
I feel inspired,
To write poems and post
On Poetry Soup,
When I go on vacation
I write a poem
And...

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Let me tell you about my eldest brother.

I am: the "Scram!", the "Beat it!", the "What you looking at?!", and the "Turn around and watch...

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Pressed Linens 


I left for the church when called to serve
A need for help in the kitchen was the request
When I arrived I saw the...

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Writing a letter is following the same avenue as cursive writing; disappearing in the rear-view mirror.  Now, the only letters one seems to receive...

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AN EASTER PRAYER

Dear Lord,

Protect us from ourselves.
Teach us to be gentle, humble people
who can love and trust our family.
Keep us loyal to each other,
and satisfied...

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THE WOMAN IN THE MORNING 

As the quiet around her beckons her call upward, 
she bows her head and begins her address to her Heavenly...

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In the consuming time of day
the water of the no longer frozen pond
is again home to a family of ducks
floating quietly in the center, as...

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•The li'l kid was promised to celebrate next birthday together,
•The lady was the happiest by the news of next meeting.
•Some considered him martinet,
With family he...

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Title: My growing up (episode one)

I was born to a native parents 
I guess my mum was a woman of substance
Papa is so good 
I...

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When you and I were children, many wonderful stories were read and told to us,          ...

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The Power of Whatever


     Whatever! I probably say it a dozen times a day, and it makes things feel better. It...

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Human Identity: "I thirst" Jn 1928                   ...

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There’s nothing quite like
The smell of a cast iron 
Wood fired  cook stove
On a chill Kentucky morning
Brewed coffee, platter of eggs
Pork chops and bacon
Hint...

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