Birthday Son Poems

Happy Birthday Walter,
We met fifty years ago courtesy of the Goeggingers.

After dating you proposed marriage at a teacher's staff meeting,
I accepted and we were married...

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I feel you hovering around me,
your presence, your spirit,
a feeling, like fingertips 
lightly grazing the skin. 
Ten years have passed 
since you shook off 
the...

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Lies to Our Self

I will be okay. 
You, she, we, me, us...
are just fine. 
All the time, 
we talk too much, 
and not enough. 

Lose...

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...Is impressing some professor,
or some critic with pretentious airs,
worth telling my own children that
their father will never be there?

Is acting like a profound wit
that can...

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rictameter

Birthdate
should be special
especially if...
the day occurs in December.
Four days following the Christmas frenzy
our five-year old WILL celebrate
along with his mama
their December
birthdate.

December 9, 2019
IP-028


 
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Come Home

Please listen to me. 
You have not "done" anything, 
that I have not done before, 
or if you have, 
then we can still talk....

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Goodbye

I waved as you left the drive. 
I heard your sweet voice… 
ever cheerful.

Hours passed. 
I did the dishes. 
I cleaned up. 
I got ready...

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My Son Today

He is waiting for me. 
Maybe. I am not sure he knows, 
I am coming. 
We don’t say that to him, 
Until we...

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It’s a caliginous hour.
All this universe of verse 
Portrays random snippets of you,
It does not spell out the alphabet of reality,
As I utter, compliment, 
And...

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Today.
Mom's birthday.
Would have been...
75....

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The Best 

What time is it?
5:00 O’clock. 
That is the answer my son will give, 
Every… time… you… ask… 

I don’t know why or where...

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May you never run out 
of kind words to say
May you wake up thrilled 
to take on the day

May you always have a million ...

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Time pulls you upward to adulthood 
and narrows your face. 
You build new connections
as the old threads break.

Your smile sizzles with intuition, 
but your moods...

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            My           Son
 ...

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Evangelist, Pastor, Musician, Composer, extraordinaire
The Philippines, to
Israel, Greece
Turkey, Tonga
Alabama, to Maine
Fullness of heart
Fullness of spirit
Fullness of mind
Hers give not receive, offer not demand, love not...

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The people who knew you, know that I was very fortunate to be your son.
If you hadn't passed away, today you would've become seventy-one.
Another year...

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Not too long ago, back about 1929
Was conceived a boy, name of Danny Fine
Born on a Thursday, 24th of October
A day the stock market turned...

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Blissful, but verily a peace-filled encounter…
…Such was a “date” with Pogi-Bear, his favorite stuffed toy…
Neath acacia tree in the kids' park, reminding me of a...

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Pièce De Résistance Lauded...

Ninety years April 9th 1929
after maiden USA début
hoop fully more than a few
remain, a filial connection
I can cultivate and hew

cuz, the ghost...

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Soon you will be 18 
I can imagine the next game play you will try on me on
You try so hard the same game play...

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