Dedication Sister Poems

We find ourselves with you in time, 
Thoughts of you are roaming our minds
Angels playing music at the Gate
Heaven will be Home; let's call it...

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She's like the night, a lampshade lit across the room 
also a rose in a summer garden always ready to bloom  
She's like a...

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How wonderful it is, for her to have a sister.
Even while she is mistress to her own mister:
So dearly does she still miss her little...

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Melancholy me, since Kelly's gone away
Far beyond the sea, and out of every day
Stage by stage I've wept, but finally, I see
What I must accept;...

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for her sister's one hundredth birthday
      a new sweater purchase from a store blocks away
     ...

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Love Is Forevermore

We met on the web long ago.
My Black sister and I, her white schmoe.

Our colors made no difference,
Rita doesn't believe in color fences.

Nor...

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I'VE GOT BLISTERS, SISTER
"Latin American dance shoes, premeditated murder with class"
Indiana Shaw . . . 

"Darn, if these shoes ain't just killing me" . ....

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Your gloves on the counter
and your hat
the smell of Channel no 5.
Your curls and your red lips,
it all was taken away from me.

Your unwritten letters,
those...

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A meritorious student, half way to her study of medicine
She took up the Nursing Course, 
Dorothea, a beautiful young nun with a mother’s heart
Used to...

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Filial Child 

Halfway to heaven, 
so thrilled to be saved.
My life, 
changed forever.
Filled with your spirit,
wrestles to serve. 

On fire…
in the night,
running through the streets,...

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On a silver moonlit pillow’s blissful patch I dreamt nirvana 
verses for my sister Jay and our magic mutual bond,  that
gem-enhanced treasure chest, that...

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Daily Lives

Quietly I walk into the room. 
You have been asleep for hours. 
You got home late, 
not for the first time,
not the last. 
Days...

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A Statement

When I was young, 
my Aunt burned her braw. 
She fought for rights, 
for me, and my daughter(s), 
that I had no idea, 
I...

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Not a Rat

If I had a cat, 
but I don't and won't, 
but I might still. 

If I had a cat...
I might, take flight, 
from...

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