Family Senses Poems

from your first born, when you grab a dusting of talc, crushed with late night feeds, stirring in bouncing and stories on a knee,

adding a...

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You have spent a decade and a half in a foreign land looking for something that you couldn’t understand; you have worn the vest and...

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Blues and whites intertwine in a colorful harmony
Branches of trees lined with paper thin greens, yellows, reds, and browns
All in different stages of life
They will...

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I was a learned college professor, who was forever eager to know more,
As blue-gray waves, finding sandy beaches, turn to seek another shore.

I drove to...

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ThanksGiving advances

Arising thoughts about boundary breaching risks
and perennial partisan issues
and deep listening opportunities.

Perhaps only the Othering
and Othered One Percent
instilling in their children
and future grandchildren
that extended...

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She prayed for a stallion,
But got a mare
She cursed not the gods for spurning her wish
Instead, she found the mare a stable
And lo, a beautiful...

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Off on a mission
Sniff! Sniff!
Nectar and pollen detected
Colorful flowers guiding
This way to the prize!
Crawling into the breach
Nectar! Yum! What a treat! 

Weighted with much pollen
Lifting...

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some things that money can’t buy

some things that money can’t buy;
yesterday
birdsong
ambition
imagination

waves crashing over rocks
love 
lust
experience

a warm wind
Canada geese flying overhead
faith
a volcano erupting
a dream
the understanding between...

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Don’t your daughter’s skin
Attack with a pin
Nor her blushing wall
Hit for an amusing fall…

And don’t your vibrant son
Leave in improvident sun:
Now playfully moving clockwise
If he...

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Where Earth's international diplomats
might hope for multiculturally appropriate
justice

Radical theologians aspire
to restore sacred EarthGreen Peace

And EarthBeauty mystics,
whose reclusive nature is not not spiritual 
indigenously serene
and spacious...

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The year 2020 was a year of adjusting to new realities dealing with the pandemic. A pandemic that affected so many people in many ways....

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Cold winds come 
bring 
white ice, the moon drifts 
over sleeping lands 
High it rides a singular eye
watching all in the frost tonight  
my...

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I suspect Albert Einstein's mathematician wife
taught spatial Left
and temporal bicameral Right Al
to feel the passing
and surging
spatial ebbing and temporal flowing,

Circling
and spiraling evolutions
and oceanic NonZero Sum...

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‘Tis the season with all the scents
Like thistle leaves of pine ferments
Burning logs sweet frankincense

A season of reflective white 
whimsical feathered snowy bright
Crystals shape an...

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Where did the paths take you,                   ...

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