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I know how scared you feel, for I share that fear,
you're out of work and running short of money.
And it takes all your strength to...

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At age ten, I found a trunk in the attic
full of leather-bound books and tied up comics.
Luckily they weren't dusty; I'm asthmatic,
dad scored them cheap...

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Do you remember the little soda shop,
Where we'd buy one soda and ask for two straws?
We'd sip very slowly, not wanting to stop,
Until the glass...

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Where would we be sometimes without a beacon,
single guiding ray to lead us safely home?
Our woes that rage within life’s storms would deepen,
lost in violent...

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A rainy night's walk: the street lights are gleaming
a dream's fluorescence in obsidian sky.
Halogen wishes are far away beaming

illumined teardrops that I refuse to cry.
All...

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I thought of “Far Away” as an escaping,
wild trees and flowers in all their rapt fury.
To be free of love and all its stiff draping,

fleeing...

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I carried my heart far from home on a quest
for love. Feeling like a well gone dry, I yearned
to fill an emptiness and rambled to...

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On an eerie and foggy Halloween night
A couple enters a dark graveyard with fear
Hearing noises of a ritual tonight
Knowing that demons and skeletons are near
A...

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Mist evolves down the hillside into the vale
Where the farmhouses sit all put together
There’s no sense of wind here, there’s no bit of gale
Just one...

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A Farmhouse Vale

Mist evolves down the hillside into the vale

Where the farmhouses sit all put together

There’s no sense of wind here, there’s no bit of...

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Lighthouse in the distance, they bask in its light
Darkness is lit up with each of its passing
Three women in bathing suits dance in the night
They...

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Days of glory

These days when women get tortured, torched and raped
In democracies deemed the most enlightened
Remember glorious days women once shaped,
Being  empowered and liberated...

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My tropical paradise along the shore
where ocean sounds soothe and warm breezes invite. 
I will call you home until I live no more.
All my days...

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Sweetheart, a cerebral woman I respect
Enchanted by her month when all life awakes
Smiles from childhood lovingly resurrect
Morning dew, tulip scent, warm days, birthday cake

Italian squeaked...

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Sun didn't rise on proud purple horizon
       Dark thick gray clouds hid the sun source totally
Birds seek yummy seeds...

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