House Prose Poems

2nd and 4th grade years were marked with an arrival of a tiny one in the house
Inspecting the lightning bolt on his forehead carefully, the...

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She never ran out of excuses.
She was the queen of them.
She could throw out six 
Before the rest of us could think of half of...

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      Being together is not...

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He came to live with us at the age of 9 weeks in 2003 March 
Besides absolute cuteness and pure innocence,
He also brought immeasurable joy...

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My aunt was a weirdo: she talked to trees, walked around the house naked and used to read me “The Metamorphoses” by Ovid and “The...

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  something stirred in this place, long long ago
  presence lingering
  half-hidden haven on the crowding hillside
  enchanted enclave
  Iberian...

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There was a man from the town of Shimoda who lived a simple and contented life.
A stonecutter by trade, he would go to the mountain...

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It’s all about a hollow corpse,
Right into the dark pit, the only follow-up goes through morse
Language. Welcome to the dark age – as in holocaused...

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Chorus:
When he  built a dream house and
"The dream" became a nightmare.
Then, he spoke to us about his frustration, 
how his aims had not been...

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this is not a dream
these love team
in house
chases mouse
other or blind as  a bat
thats the rat
some have around like  a hog
 love to...

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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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Every man with a sense of purpose has what he wants: a homeowner – a homeownership; a slickster, as slick as a public pool’s bottom,...

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      My sweetheart said to me: let's fantasize, let's make sweet love ... Let's escape...

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Parked alongside a dark road,
Street lights will soon herald it to life,
It is a quarter to six, I pull out a cigarette,
Flicked my lighter for...

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In These Days, We Prayed
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The Curse On My Linage 


Oh linage 
I now sit and wonder,
why thou have grown so slow in progress
And wasteful in...

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Frozen lakes
water unforgiving
ducks frozen in place
crying for release
you cannot reach them
you cannot reach them
feathers fly but wings do not soar
screaming for an out
for only an...

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In my back yard
Mr. Bunny
sprinted past me, 
as if to say, 
“Look how fast I am!”

The day before Easter
I spied him
beside my forsythia.
All twitchy-nosed and
watching...

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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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I-Thou


I sit

In a coffee-house

As I so often do,

Alone,

But never

Left alone


Sitting anonymously

In the warming crowd

Disappearing

In a favorite

Stuffed oversized

Chair

As if hiding

In a peaceful 

Winter cloud.


I peer

Outward

Smiling

Inwardly

With my

Body...

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Don Winslow of the Navy at the movies...…., the Lone Ranger, and the shadow, on the radio. Three of my favorite pastimes in Wilmington NC,...

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