Name Waking Poems

The bedside alarm jerks me rudely
from the slumbering solitude of my bed 
And jolts me into a half-conscious state of confused mania,
As five o'clock shadows...

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A WAKING AIM:

What a waking aim,
Since she's blessed than fame,
To upgrade and uphold her name?
After stumbling in shame,
She now stands strong in new life game,
And...

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Every dream is always the same,
I escape to the stables,
Looking for you,
Holding you in my arms,
A kiss softly on the lips.
Falling on the hay.
But that...

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I stood on the step by the unopened door
Far from the meadows that precede the shore
Grasped tight the railing I longed to explore 
Searching for...

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Sylvia writes, “I have the choice,”
And her words gut me like
An overeager pubescent student
With a scalpel and tweezers.
I feel the same as she.  I,...

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I remember thinking to myself, you can get a  good night's sleep even after a bad day.

It was 3 years ago today when I...

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Now that the boat is gone, what are we floating on?
I used to look into the future and see you
But sometimes there’s nothing left for...

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VIETNAM VET SOLDIER'S NIGHTMARE

Another dream –
I could not wake –
Escape from what would follow--
Grasping for a secret word, the letters stark and hollow--
I was trapped...

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How do your eyes catch me 
those sleepy wee hours 
I stir you 
as a watercolor caricature 
picking through our dismembered socks, 
and shirts that...

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