Things Lost Somewhere in This House
...Things Missing Somewhere in This House
My birth bertificate…
A box of needed, new bank checks…
Both of our wedding rings…
My Waterman fountain pen…
After 4 decades, at least 3 doz. of Jim’s odd ...
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Categories:
waterman, family, heart, jesus, loss,
Form: Prose
A NEW WORLD
...My old lady dropped a needle
From the cloth she was sewing
A fart of zaracatan or tailor's fart buzzed
That, in the silence of the afternoon
Made me flee quickly from the sewing room.
The news f...
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Categories:
waterman, engagement,
Form: Free verse
I'M Rare
...I am sorry to disappoint you
I could be anything you expect me to be
But you have a better chance to stop the war inside you
Than to try diminish my own personality
There's a saying that say's
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Categories:
waterman, africa, character, self,
Form: Free verse
A Tired Day
...A tired day
Yesterday I walked to the tax office
Not that I had any business there
But the woman next door said it only took her 15 minutes
To go there.
It took me two hours going there and b...
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Categories:
waterman, blessing, books, break up,
Form: Blank verse
Winter On the Miles River
...There was something spectacular
about a winter, long and hard,
on the Miles River.
Some days will never be the same.
Greying skies, heavy hung
with crystal burdens
of the wind, and air. Twent...
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Categories:
waterman, community, home, nostalgia, winter,
Form: Free verse
The Waterman - Visual 1
...Oh streaking man on epic sea;
bold waterman stoked up on fear,
your blue room wall calm lunacy,
oh streaking man on epic sea.
In magic, bound up ecstasy,
your arching nemisis c...
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Categories:
waterman, ocean, water,
Form: Triolet
Kittiwake
...KITTIWAKE
CH: Kittiwake, kittiwake Naija. 2ce
Old man na snake
Young man na fake
Looking for what to rake
CH: Kittiwake...Naija. 2ce
Overtake all overtake
My people awake
Make no mistake
The...
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Categories:
waterman, africa, betrayal, corruption, crazy,
Form: Free verse
Google Water Charity Page One
...COUNSELOR COWARD
So there was I a fresh new face ready to oversee the law
I had the mandatory briefcase, with two pencils and a Waterman pen
I’d studied long and hard for years but my future had...
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Categories:
waterman, angst
Form: I do not know?