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Why Do You Care?

Posted in Randoms, Rogues and Outliers, tagged , , , , , on June 4, 2013 | Leave a Comment »

Out my window each night at the stars I would stare
‘Til the dawn lit the sky with its pastel fanfare
With the moon I would talk, her light in my hair
Her cratered eyes asked, Really why do you care

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All We Can Do

Posted in Good in the End poetry collection (death and dying), tagged , , , , , , on May 28, 2013 | Leave a Comment »

Seared by bombs and shootings
Left fewer and bereft, keening in the rubble

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My “share” on Poem in Your Pocket Day

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on April 18, 2013 | Leave a Comment »

Here’s the first poem I fell in love with and the one I want to share with you here on National Poem in Your Pocket Day. Enjoy! To Make a Prairie by Emily Dickinson (1755) To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee. And revery. The revery […]

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Doing Cancer (in loving memory of Jeanne Conover)

Posted in Good in the End poetry collection (death and dying), tagged , , , , , , on March 28, 2013 | Leave a Comment »

In the beginning, the white-frocked horseman of her apocalypse
Eyes averted, blurts she has pancreatic cancer in store
She rocks, absorbs our reeling shock then, pensive, quips
A curious “Well, I’ve never done cancer before.”

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Eye of the Storm

Posted in Randoms, Rogues and Outliers, tagged , , , , on December 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Wind wails, fraught with ice
White on gray the roiling bay
Gulls remain, silent

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