Husband September Poems

I smell like pencils in September.
After they’ve been brought to that…to the machine hanging on the closet wall where our coats, our boots, our bags,...

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Queen Elizabeth II has died and she isn't the Queen anymore.
Her husband, "Philip Mountbatten" died just one year before.
Elizabeth II has died at the age...

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Courtesy of one or more tradesmen, 
first Monday in September set aside
for employees able, eager, ready 
and willing to acquire money 
to marry groom or...

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It’s three AM, and he calls.
She pulls herself from the 
Wooly warmth of dreams
And pads down to his room.
“Are you okay?” she asks.
“Yes,” he replies...

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While sidestepping impediments,
Achilles heel stricken with paralyzing zap
chronically inducing captain klutz
to bemoan and yap,
i.e. (think) booby trap
strategically laid down by the missus -

necessitating yours truly
to...

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Woke up (September 6th, 2020)...

Got outta bed boot
did not drag comb against head
of  beetle browed foo fighter,
he did not arise
bright eyed (by George), nor...

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Two thousand seven 
Hundred and fifty victims
Murdered, Rest in Peace
 
 
My entry into Nathan's 9-11 contest
 
 
  http://www.thehighlanderspoems.com/america.php...

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Intelligence first, Retribution next
Clinical response the worlds text
Which free country is next in line
To be hit by this cowardly crime.
 
New York Cities patriots, suffer...

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9/11, 2001
Tuesday morning when it all began
Four Jet Airliners 
Hi-jacked at will
To fly their mission
To kill, blood spill
 
Target chosen
New York City
No questions asked
No pity
...

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September, I‘m asking you, “please don’t come.” 
I can’t take the heartbreak every year.
I need something to make me numb.
Let me see if I can...

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