Tag: family
group name: freeverselovers
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January 02, 2008 06:41 AM EST --
I once looked at the moon and thought it was made of cheese.
My friends laughed at me. I never mentioned it again
I wanted to close my eyes and see only darkness there. rather than the swirling . . . more
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August 23, 2007 07:49 AM EDT --
My father is seventy –three years old and all of his adult life he has smoked. Deep furrows line his face His once bright mahogany brown eyes are now dull, and the . . . more
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August 23, 2007 08:15 AM EDT --
The shortest sentence in the English language: I am.
Look at me almost fifty. I am in continuing education trying to regain some lost time.
Can you ever go back? If I strive and persevere and want enough . . . more
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November 21, 2006 08:40 AM EST --
Thanksgiving will soon be here. Only two days from now, the family will all come over and we will celebrate and eat and drink. Thanksgiving has become my favorite holiday. There is less stress . . . more
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August 17, 2006 04:44 PM EDT --
I'd like to cry
but I can't.
I'd like to run
away,
but that's impossible.
Sitting, watching from
the window
I feel so empty;
destroyed by one man's
words.
How can I profess to love . . . more
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August 11, 2006 12:20 AM EDT --
With toes curling
in and out on the
the thick pile rug,
I begin to
imagine in my head
The words to pen
that set us apart
and unequal
.
Fingers play
the keys
I hear
in my head
Now . . . more
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August 10, 2006 08:00 AM EDT --
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August 11, 2006 12:05 AM EDT --
Out of the blue
my lover came to me
Then out of the blue
he was gone.
My love for him
never ended...
Thirty years that
Took us through:
A husband or two,
children,...
and . . . more
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August 14, 2006 08:38 AM EDT --
Horns and hammers in
the distance,
kids playing
Oh, hear, the songs of late summer!
Take the sound away
and I'd be more inspired
to write,
to listen . . . more
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October 29, 2007 12:45 PM EDT --
The wind stirred my memory
only a moment
I shut out that sadness
. . . more
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August 12, 2006 12:53 AM EDT --
The rain gently
spitting
Tingles the flesh
as I walk
through clouds
and a blank horizon.
The rain tingles
stirring awareness,
How alive I feel.
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August 05, 2006 06:01 PM EDT --
He's driven by what he hears in his head.
It is there to bring out what is best in him.
He's driven even more to compose,
to
express,
to . . . more
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August 10, 2006 08:18 AM EDT --
He waits in despair
Hoping his one true
love would appear.
She's aloof and
refuses to talk
The blowouts and
the misdemeanors
in the mind is all
contained for now.
What has become
of him?
She's . . . more
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August 12, 2006 01:01 AM EDT --
<h2>The smell of autumn
leaves permeates my
senses. Someone's burning:
The Raking Time is here.
So strongly that
scent I still remember.
It takes me back -
to when autumn leaves
did not last . . . more
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September 25, 2007 06:35 PM EDT --
I used to watch the smoke from my mother's cigarette in the lamp light,
Silver threads twining through amber.
Up it went, curling under the shade, coiling serpentine runes in the air,
Ghostlike but . . . more
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August 06, 2006 12:02 AM EDT --
We down coast highway, setting sun, smells of salty sea and eucalyptus. Walked the carpeted curves of the park overlooking Laguna Beach. At every turn, bench and picnic table, "We came here when we . . . more
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March 01, 2008 08:26 PM EST --
I'll be busy in the next few days. My Mom is in the hospital again. She has been undergoing strong chemo for her metastatic breast cancer.
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August 10, 2006 11:53 PM EDT --
This week has been a strange one.
Too many lost friends suddenly
Showing up, like ghosts.
Wanting to know what has happened
After thirty plus years have past.
Why after all these weeks? Why,
Do they . . . more
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November 13, 2007 10:20 AM EST --
Fatherhood on Monday Morning
They are called black seedless grapes,
Cross-bred monstrosities from California
That would mock the wine-girl's delicate foot.
Each settles in the palm like a . . . more
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August 20, 2007 07:05 AM EDT --
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