Child Sedoka Poems

I've always loved you
despite the objections raised,
Will you mother my love child?

I am forever
grateful my love, but marry
me I will mother your child....

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to have seen flocks of
starlings in murmuration
is to have lived a full life
-
it’s as simple as
a child plucking a rose
from a blooming garden bed...

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Child too informed
What is to become of us?
A worried eight-year-old asks.

Child is frightened.
The family is a train wreck.
Every day worse than the last.

Why do adults...

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Life is grand for you
You're understood by no one
You dance to your own solo

Skipping a new path
Always uniquely yourself
Answering to no one else

I watch and...

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lined up tall to small —
tailored suit on middle child.
Brady Bunch dress on sisters.
the Hammond organ,
put together by our dad —
the masterpiece behind us.

my mind’s...

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Deep in the forest
A group of people wander
Looking around with torches
Crunching on the leaves
Hoping to find someone lost
A boy squeals with pure delight 

Russell Sivey...

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littered twigs now stale
unlike past season,  enhanced
by rapture of air whistling

shades of veiled light
hide her bloomed  navel with child
on path of forgotten love

hunched...

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I am whole in you
You are to me as water’s light
A glisten across my face so bright
The gaze you cast me
Is too great to call...

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Our Savior was born
in a manger Christmas day
son of Mary and Joseph
child of Bethlehem
under the star of David
that led three wise men to him

Bringing with...

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