Relationship Rights Poems

Pardon me, sir
    No, you go first
  You have right of way
    I defer to you. Go ahead

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And 

Goat heads, cockleburs, and cow pies. 
These are the things
we live with, in the country. 
Some you step on, 
some travel in your clothes,...

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Broken Glass 

Bits of color...
washed up on the beach. 
Items that tell stories, 
about faraway places, 
new people, and old. 

Red like roses, fine wine...

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Parenting defiant trauma
attached to both hurt child
and wounded parent
needing to continue
co-invested relationships,
positive and constant,
without breaks
in healthy communication,
direct
and, if possible,
playful

Counteracting fear
that both TraumaChild
and I
will pressure ego-me
to...

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I won’t hold my breath for the day you stop butchering us. We already have enough issues trying to breathe with you around. They said...

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What happens when you have negative balance? 
Does that mean the Prince does not get his allowance? 
We are a small country you see 
No...

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Mental Health
aka Crazy

The very topic is inclusive of the word, 
that haunts our every step from birth;
until our last breath. 

Fear has no power except...

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Solemn

As I walk alone, 
the path before me, 
long and full of pain, 
my thoughts are only on you. 
You went forward, 
when others ran...

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Empty Glass 
Stained

The house is empty. 
The dogs...
are barking again. 
This happens, 
and.

It is left hanging there, 
for a reason. 
The word...
Says little and less,...

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Historical Outlaws

What, are you talking about? 
I am saying that we have a past. 
It is full of guns, and law, 
and law breakers. 
It...

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If Money Grew 

I would plant a garden. 
I would make every row, 
straight. 
They would be perfect, 
as hard work, 
produces the best crops....

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Sherlock

Watson was a good man. 
He stood by his friend, regardless of what happened. 
Sherlock was a good man also. 
Consumed by his intellect, lost...

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Sunflowers in Winter

I planted seeds, at the wrong time,
never thinking they would come up. 
Why would I do that? 
Hope, faith, joy, and ultimately…
God.

He told...

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Female hand 
the front receives
male hand the back
weeps in poverty...

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Dispute arises between love and right
Two things I always display at each side
For a belief that both produce delight
When balanced fairly below my high pride.

But...

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